I was going by my car @12 in the night driving at a speed of 100 km/hr on the Gurgaon-Delhi highway.It was my friend Dev sitting in the back with Abhi. To the left of me was Vinay. A while ago, we were at Ambience Mall whr we leisurely blowed the time by watching cricket match n smbdy singing Enrique nearby.We dropped the plan of Abhi watchin some bollywud movie full of morons.
While drivin Abhi said: C'mon Arham spill out your guts, it's a highway,show me the pointer reach 140 2nite
Me: Fine then fasten your seat belts pepuls,gonna scare the hell out of Dev n Vinay 2nite
Vinay(In his typical tapori style): Haan saalon, so tht kal ke newspaper mein headlines pe likha hoga...char bigde hue shahzadee...nai nai chaar Xerius ke employees, apni ameeri jhadte hue highway pe jhad gaye
Guys, lets rewind a little bit about Xerius. We were colleagues working in a software firm but over the time we had become very close pals.
We're literally frustrated by working under pressure from client day in day out and our bossy boss sitting over our head and always warning "jaldi kaam khatam karo warna client geela joota utha ke marega"...we excelled in our work and we had ideas n we thought of setting up our own company. For tht we needed funding. So, we went to a company in Gurgaon and explained our plan to them and tried to convince them as to how it'll help their employees get trained by us and in all will be very beneficial to both the parties. After a week the CEO of that company(it was a small company of around 3-4 years of age) called us n told that he was excited bout the plan. He then told us that he wanted us to be employees of his company and in order to pursue our dream he would let us open a vertical in his company. He couldn't convince us with his proposal n we realized that if we agreed to his plan then we are heading towards the death star. We unanimously stuck to our plan and things didn't work out. So, after a while we were at Ambience Mall. And it's here where we did a naming ceremony of our company, Dev came up with the name Xerius and rest of us liked it.
It was later that we came to know that Dev had already purchased a domain even with that name.
Dev: Arham dont you wry,if I stay alive...I will make it a point to convey this brave act of yours to all your crushes n all your gurlfrndz whu now hav boyfrndz
Me: Lets hav some music with thrill
Fm 104: O humdum suniyo re...O humdum shyaam ko khidki se chori chori chaand aayega!!
Abhi(gazing at the pointer): it's One O Fiv,C'monnnnnnnnn 40,120...C'monnnnnnnnn...130
Vinay: Oye lets take my E-52 out...iska bhi use ho jayega...jab se liya hai sirf PDFs hi padhta rehta hun...video lete hain Arham ki bahaduri ka.
Dev: Fortieeee...Fortieeee...Fottiiiiiie...Fortieeee... (Vinay busy with taking the video of speedometer)
Abhi n Dev: OnnnnneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeFotieeeeeee!!...Yes...eeeeeeeeeHooooooooooooo...
Fm n All 4: O humdum suniyo re..O humdum suniyo re....
Suddenly felt that we were in the middle of trucks speeding at our same speed...
Reached 120...dragging myself 2 hard from between the trucks 2 the left of the highway...
Abhi: Watch out Arrrhh...
There appeared a truck standing still on the middle of road from no where...
I applied brakes so suddenly...the antilocking system suddenly clamped my brakes...
Me: O shit!!...ab nai ruk sakti...
Got dragged my car to at least 50 meters...n thud thud...boom boom badoom...
Fm 104: O humdum suniyo re...
I heard a strange sound...infact sounds...n I knew the car was no more a Car...it was BeKar...
I felt I fell on a rock or something and it was black fr a while. All I could here was Abhi sitting at the back crying "b******* mera haath...lag gayi yaar".
Abhi to Vinay: Saale apna video band kar kaminey...Dev ek baar dekhiyo kahin chehre pe se khoon to nahin nikal raha, bahot strain feel ho raha hai yaar
Vinay(trying to wake me up): "Arham...uth saale...hello...thik to hai...arey koi paani lao lagta hai behosh ho gaya hai.
Dev: Abe pehle baahar niklo us truck driver ko pakadte hain...h****khor ne sadak ke beech mein gaadi rok rakhi hai...VLC players to laga diye hote as stop signs...saale ne wo bhi nai kiya...Arham ko dekhte hain, pehle use pakadte hain kahin bhaag na jaaye. But as soon they got down, the truck owner realizing the threat sped away.
Next I could hear was all kinds of hurls and abuses from my frndz to the speeding truck n it's driver on the Highway at 12.30 PM.
Dev came back to me while I was regaining consciousness. As I got up and tried to open the door, it fell apart as if saying to me "Baahar aayiye janaab aapke pitaji bhi kal aapko isi tarah ghar se baahar nikaalne waale hain..." As I got out and turned back to look into the car I could see that the back portion was alright. But to my shock the steering wheel was bent. Damn it, the rock that I hit then was my steering wheel and owing to my large stout body it got bent. I tried to breathe in n out heavily and pressed my ribs n chest to feel if anything was broken inside me. It was now absolutely guaranteed that I was going to get fired from my house this morning.
As I came out and looked at the bonnet of my Esteem, it was squeezed like a mash-mellow. For the first time it made me realize that this large sized bonnet was the one which saved all of us, had it been Vinay's Maruti 800 we would be on a highway to hell.
Dev suddenly dialed up his dad's number(dunno why) explained everything while looking at my friends faces and they looking at mine dumbfounded and rest is a story filled with loads of embarrassment.
This is a true incident that happened to all 4 of us...only that I dreamt(the very next night) of myself driving while it was Dev driving in reality...
Within a year things had changed very much, we all left that company n joined other companies with different roles n responsibilities.
After an year exactly on the same date, Vinay calls up from London to all 3 of us and reminds "Yaad hai wo gurgaon-highway waali raat"...I had completely forgotten this and so did everybody else, I asked him "badi tez ho gayi hai teri yaaddasth pound kama kama ke"...he replied as usual, "Ab ka batayein hum ka hain...neways yaad hai mera wo phone...jisme humari kartoot record hui thi(it's posted on youtube), us din maine isme reminder set kar diya tha as My second birthday"...
