Mohnish Ghodekar

This was one of rarest to rarest incident happened with me till date.

That was an evening of 31st May Saturday,around 6:45pm. I was late from the office because of some urgent task.

I was in the bus,standing at the end ,close to the last seat.That was not so crowded asit usually happens.

I can see a elder( a man) seating with a brand new tubelight in his hand.trying to save it from being broken.

I was sharing some words with one of the local guy from aldona.

suddenly a seat got vacant.that too a window seat!!!

Sitting at the window is a different pleasure

As i was moving towards the seat,cautious enough because of the tubelight.

I was passing by, and suddenly the tubelight man positioned it perpendicular 90 degree to me. Ohh goshh…

I was about to avoid the devastation,that the man himself got up and the tube got bend and it then….

doooh!!!! There was a blast. The tubelight blasted. The whole bus was shaken.

Conductor was all panicked. What he thought was something different…

It got powdered into small piece.. It was an emberacing moment for me. The elder was dissapointed to see his Tube light busted into pieces.

I could only here him saying Kite re (in our local language). It was an emberrasing moment for me. I thought of paying his breakage expenses.But soon realised that it may turn out to be an insult for the elder,taking money from an young boy 40 years younger than him.Everyone in the bus was on my side,blaming the elder for not handling the tube properly.I was relaxed with that,feeling a bit supported.

So i kept quite.But before i could say sorry, the man had already left the bus.He was an respectable cool natured personality.After he left,the conductor came walking close to me. The one thing that he said to me was really funny “Kite futle te pailii mhaka kallena. Pun Aavazan khariuch mhaji pent sakail devli i.e he meant to say that he dint feel what happened first but his pant did came down when he did hear the sound.“

And i was only laughing