u-turns...

Does life take u-turns?? I don't know, people do say though, that "Time comes a full circle" and "History repeats itself" ... so I guess it must. but lets not get into the rhetoric since I have also read and heard many a times,... it is the journey that matters more.Well nor do I know if it always matters more than the destination, specially when the destination is not death, but a movie show, or a wedding, where getting late may mean missing the actual event :P ....

But then what is a little sacrifice of a movie or a wedding functgion or a dinner party, to a lot of driving, losing the way and getting stuck in traffic... not to mention an occassional crash encounter with another equally lost driver, or a uniformed officer looking to make a quick buck ;) ....and most of all loads of joking, no-bars-laughing and some unfogettable memories and loads of u-turns.....


lost1:

1 car, 5 friends, an expected 2.5 hr drive, a friend's engagement party...
planned arrival time: 9:00 PM
actual leaving time: 10:00 PM
2 hrs down the road...car going at 80 km/hr

frnd1: allright, so now we're about the enter the state, take out the invitation card and tell me the address
frnds2-5: ??????????????????????????????
frnd2: i'd asked u guys to take a print out...u have it right??
frnd3: im the guest, you ppl are suppsed to organise the logistics
frnd1: somebody tell me if we have to take a left or a right from here, its the highway i cant stop
frnd4: take left
frnd5: i think u shud take a right...

20 minutes down the right...

frnd2: we're nowhere ...let me call them up, do u have his parents' no.?
chorus: NO!!
frnd2: fiance's parents?
chrous: NO!!
frnd2: his roommate's
chorus: NO!!
frnd2: ne1's no...???
frnd4: i have my PL's no...do u want it??...
frnd1: lets just take a u turn, and go back and take a left from there...
phone-a-friend: have u reached
frnd2: no, u connected to the net? check ur mails, dig the card out and tell us the address....

another 40 min down the left, armed -with-the-address...

strngr1: sir, go straight and take u -turn at the first cut, go back to flyover and take a left, its a 30min drive (we had taken a u-turn after 20 min)
another 10 min and a u-turn later
frnd4: im feeling sick, can we find a chemist first....
the-chemist: sir ur taking the longer route...take a u-turn, go straight...take a left from the round-about, go straight till the road ends in a T, and take a right, 10 min from there....

final arrival time: 1:30 AM
function status: engagement over, dinner almost over, guests have all left long ago, its just the family, and us!!!
Commments: some of the best times with my friends...

lost2:

4 cars, 12 people, headed for an office dinner party ...
expected arrival time: 9:00 PM
actual leaving time: 9:30 PM

driver1: who knows the way??
driver3: I do....just follow me
driver2: cool...

10 min later, the expressway.....

driver1: hey driver2, look, that car is trying to race me,
driver2: lets roll........
driver4: i'm in

another 8 minutes (or so) and the race which-never-happened later...

driver1: oh shit! where's driver3? we were supposed to follow her...
me: Let me call her up... its busy , and so is driver2...i think they're talking to each other..
driver1: oh there's driver2, ahead of us, lets go...

...10 min later...

driver1: where's driver2 going, right , no left, there's no left here...oh no there is! wait!! now what!?! why has everyone stopped??!!
driver2: (on a call)@driver3, we've taken the left, where are you?? what!oh ...we're one left early
driver1: lets take a u-turn
driver4: lets go back in reverse, it'll be fun...
another one like me: i know the way, this road joins that one, just take a right
driver1: allright...ev1 follow us...

...a right, a left, and the next traffic light....

driver1: we take a right from here right??
another one like me: yes
driver1: oh shit, no we should not have taken this right, this is not the one...let's take a u-turn...

....back at the traffic light...

driver4: now where to?
me: driver2 has reached the meeting point
driver1: i think we should've gone straight, so now we take a right
driver4: okie

...and the next signal,

driver1: there's nothing here, we shud've taken a left, let's take a u-turn...

....back at the same traffic light...

driver1: let's go straight

...straight and the next left turn....

driver1: bingo! there're the other cars.
driver3: plz just follow me now

...2 min & a left turn later...
driver1: oh shit! we're here!! its was this close!!??!!

final arrival time: 10:30 PM
dinner status: lets not even get there....
comments: i never knew I could laugh so much without my friends...

Looking forward to the next series of u-turns....after all life is a u-turn ;)