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

Yes! thats it i know to ride the bike.It was an amazing experience riding the bike for the first time ever in my life.

It was saturday 22 march and that was none other than the great Bajaj pulsar 180CC bike.A huge bike for a beginner. Not being used to the bike riding activity i had a very tough time handling it. It was a painfull day with all the crams and catches causing pain all over my body .

I put the bike in neutral and i try to kick start it.After many attempt it was a foil,unable to start it. hmmm…. I was sweating heavily. drank two ltrs of cold water,finished totalty.

It started raining, an abnormal behaviour by the nature.Raining heavily cannot move out.i was disspointed.all excited to vroom the road with pulsar.culdnt sleep, i culd only see mw riding the bike speedily with a stylish look and suddenly losing the balance and landing up in the gutter.

I got up,thank god it was just a dream. i was shaken.tried to relax with a hot cup of refreshing tea.hmm..

Yes it was 10 am i was all ready, again went close to the bike. put in the key,turned the switch to the right.Indicator was coming a. Aaah.

Again the same story,kick starting hard to start the bike. someone told me to pull the choke. i did end it started. But soon realising that there is a beatifull self start button on the right side of the handle waiting to press itself.

Yes!! finnally got the easier way to start it!! pressed the button and it started!!!! i was just racing the bike to get a DHOOM feeling.Vroooomm Vroooooom and i was happy.

knowing nothing of how to ride. Took the bike on the road with a risk. Sat on it, Put the 1st gear relased the clutch too quickly. and it stopped. ghuk ghuk…..

again started ( now with self start ) and again put the first. slowly released the clutch raced the accelerator and it went zoom zoomm……

oh!! God!!. My heart has almost entered into my mouth. thank god it was not a devastation… God was with me.

again started put the first and relased the clutch, ok this time everything was ok. it was moving ahead (distincly ahead) and then it went to the second gear.and then third,so on..

the turns. It was just a straight ride ,with no turns and curves and i was just enjoying,finished around a ltr of petrol in the process. And i took 12 rounds moving to and fro on the same way. there was only smile on everyones faces ,that finally i learned to ride.. It was a happy happy sundayfor me.. The most exciting moment of my life….