"arre sir yeh aaj hi 18 saal ka hua hai"

it was my 18th birthday, and all of us had decided to go behind hotel Taj i.e. Bade Miyaa. its a small restaraunt where you would find cars from Maruti 800 to Mercedes SLK.

We left for bade Miyaa at around 7.00 in the evening and due to heavy traffic had reached there pretty late say around 10.45pm. 8 of us had gone on ma treat. we had our own cars i.e. mine and 1 was ma frnds. I had actually learnt driving way back when i was around 16 years old and had got my fake license made up from an agent. when we reached there, there was absolutely no place to park our cars and sit inside the so called restaurant. we had no option but to open the dikis of the cars and ask the waiters to serve the food there. the food was amazing and we had a nice team.

Its from here where our piercing experience started. my friend who was driving the other car was in high spirits and was actually racing with almost every car he saw on the road. LOL. the car was screaching and scaring other cars on the road. Whereas on the other hand i had jsut turned 18 and i had 3 other people sitting in ma car. 1 of them was elder to me and the other 2 were younger to me and it was kind of my responsibility since i had asked their parents to allow them to move out on that particular day. I was very much wantin to race with my friend but somehow dunno why was not doing so. Also i didnt wanna take any risk specially on that particular day.

We had crossed lower parel, then Bandra and then while we were reaching Vile parle just at the corner there is a gas station. at that point of time it was say around 12.30 in the night and we were tryin to rush home cause it was actually gettin late for the 2 guys who were younger to me.
it was drizzling a bit and i was tryin to avoid speeding. but while just recing the gas station, i could see an Esteem which was whooping back at great speed and i was very close, so close that i could see the esteem reversing back at enormous speed. at that point of time i tried to take pull ma car to the left but was not able to. You guys know y??? because the one who was sitting on the front seat (Akshay) was literally standing and out of fear had held the steering. i was tryin to pul the steerring to the left where as he was pushn it to the right out of fear of getting hurt. i was helpless and by the time this was happening the guys who were sitting at the back seat (Rajesh and Utkersh) where also very tensed. But if any could hear them at that point of time i bet no one can say that they were tensed. Rajesh actually said " Lagga Lagaa Laggggaaaa" it sounded as if he was waiting for the car to get hit, where as Mr. Utkersh who always is in his own world and takes things in such a way as if nothing has happend, he was calmly sitting back and he actually uttered the words " ohhh hoh hoh, yeh sab kya ho raha hai" and these were said in such a lazy tone as if all this is happening in some other car and we are watching a show.

By this time the car had already banged the esteem. The 2 doors of ma car on the left hand side had been bashed so badly, they had almost come inside the car, where as the esteems bumper had fallen down. I was so damn angry that i couldt control myself and started abusing the driver of Esteem. by that time a decent crowd was there on the road and i was shouting at the top of my voice, actually that was out of fear since what would i say to my parents and what would i say to my friends parents whom i had taken permission from.

This was the time where i jsut couldnt think wat to do. Calling up parents would create a big mess. Then i dunno y but i called my uncle (Narendra Chacha), i esplained him and asked a solution for the situation i was in. He asked me to file a complaint against the Driver of Esteem and come back home. But this was not so simple as i thought.

We actually came to Juhu Police station, where in there were 2 constables who questioned us outside the police station, the driver of the esteem tried to turn tables and was tryin to put the whole blame on me by saying "yeh jawani ka naya josh hai saab, in baccho ko akkal to hai nahi, bas baap ka paisa udana aata hai" the driver was fully drunk and his shirt was actually smelling of alcohol, so that was 1 point where the constable didnt believe him totally. The Esteem driver started his tricks and tried to bribe him, it was then when the constable realised that he was at fault and then took him to the sub inspector. we again had to narrate the whole story to the inspector and the most foolish thing on earth that i was tryin to do was to narrate the story in marathi.LOL, which i failed miserably and then the esteem driver told the inspector that i have a garage of my own and asked me to come to the garage the next day to get the car repaired. the Inspector got Furious and yelled at him "Garage hai to kya sab ki gaadi thok te firega, hero hai ya, kya samajh kya rakha hai." by that time my uncle had come and i was asked to go and sit outside on the bench whereas the esteem driver was taken in a different room (Dunno wat happend to him after that), while i was sitting outside on the bench with my friends the costable was generally questioning me as to wat do i do and all, and then it was again Akshay who told the constable "Dekho na saab, kitna kharab scene hua hai, arre sir yeh aaj hi 18 saal ka hua hai". Thank god the constable misheard that otherwisethat would have been the last nail in ma coffin.