well we all always think that we shud get wat we desire for...and all of us fantisize for a magic lamp or somthing lik a wishing well.. which could fulfil all our wishes , and wat if u get somting of that sort...it sounds strange but people hav their own ways to get their wishes fulfilled..
a frend of mine apoorva believes that if one sees the red van of indian postal dept. and immediately wishes somthing seeing the van after crossing their fingers, their wish wud b fulfilled.. but its not that easy.. the dificult part is one needs to keep his fingers crossed and mouth shut till one see a REAL dog...
i emphasise on the "real" bcoz one tends to get so irritated that 1 thinks of completing his wish by seeing dogs' pic or statue..nw wats the big deal... one can find street dogs anywhere in india... and one really dislikes the look of those itchy,sick,barking dogs..... but i realised the importance of our street dogs once i tried to follow the wish part..
it so happened thats four of us me,apoo, ankansha and amruta planned to go out... it was approx 7.00 pm .. enjoying ourselves jus wandering down the road ,window shopping, apoo saw the post office and 2 red vans of theirs parked outside.. immediately she crossed her fingers, made a wish, and shut her mouth.... (well she says everytime she wishes somthing it really is fulfilled) so even i decided to give it a try after all wat was the harm ... one cud easily find street dogs arund.. and that too in a market place of dadar in mumbai.
i followed her.. crossed my fingers, made a wish and shut my mouth...nw both of us went arund looking for a dog..
akansha ad amruta jus kept bangging their heads on our this so called stupid act... but both of us very merily kept looking for a dog..
the market place was too busy so we decided to part from our 2 frends and apoo and i went on looking for a DOG
crossing several lanes, dark lanes, well lit lanes, garbage bins.. busy roads every corner of the place but all in vain... we cud not locate a single dog..:(wandering arund jus wondering where did all dogs of dadar disappear nd our patience level rising too high(coz both of us cannot b silent for long)..
the frustration levels rose so high that we found ourselves looking under the parked cars, in the drainage and even went inside som housing socities to see if anyone has a dog at home.. huh.... all in vain..( i cant imagine i took so much pain to find a dog..if i wud hav made even 1% effort of this on wat i wished i wud hav not been facing this dog crisis problem)to add on to our misiries my phone started ringing and that too from home... cant even think of breaking the wish wat if som thing wierd happens.... but then to my all pleasures i saw a small little puppy besides a man sitting with som small toys... as we came near him jus to realise it was jus a stuff toy of puppy....
The frustration level kept on increasing.. on the other hand my phone was continuosly ringing.. well thats when we spotted the other 2 frends of ours and handed over my phone to them and akanksha answered the phone saying i was in the booking line of the ticket ( we were all going to shirdi ).. and aleast one tension was over but our biggest tension to deal with the dog crisis was still on....
Amruta offered to go with me in different direction and akansha said she wud b with apoo...atlast with amru's help i located a dog.. i cannot belive we wasted 1.5 hrs jus looking for a DOG....i ran back to apoo to tell her i saw a dog jus to find apoo beating up akansha in the market place... and typing all sorts of names to akanksha on her cell(as she cud not spk them out)...
it had so happened that while amruta and i were gone apoo and akansha decided to go to a CD stall to look out for any good songs. but since apoo cudnt spk she kpt typing stuff for akansha to b asked to the shop owner( well i dont knw from whr did she get this wierd idea of msg typing while not speaking may b since she does it a lot of times).. the shop owner was taken by surprise by this behaviour of apoo and asked akansha wat the problm ws.. to which she had replied that apoo is dumb since childhood and cannot speak she conveys her thoughts lik this and i am the only person who can understand her.. the poor shop keeper even gav apoo a pen and paper to write down.. (hushh.. i missed this part jus for that dog huh...)
anyway we saved akanksha from apoo's beating and then apoo jus prayed to see a dog.. and as if god heard her.. we jus found 2 men taking their almost 6 feet tall dogs for an evening walk... atlast we all were happy that our stupid act ended.. but apoo had not given up.. to prove that she wasnt dumb she went bac to the shop and started talking to the shop owner who was surprised to see her speaking.. heheehe.. poor guy....
we rode the bus to shirdi and went to sleep...
but to tell u people.. this was not the end... i had wised to receivea phone call for which i was desparately waiting for days and had no hope ...and later i came to knw that , that person had called me that very night but tomy luck or unluck d cell had switched off due to low battery..
huh...i dont knw whether do i believe in those red vans or not.. but one thing is for sure i have started respecting all street dogs from that day...atleast i belive in those dogs nw... as its easy to locate those red vans but its not so easy to find dogs arund.. hehehehe..
lets try it som other day.. ;)
