Just back from Pune. Nice trip, I think I wasn’t too condescending towards the kids…The lectures went off….ummm…safely enough. Loads of good-looking gals around in Pune. :-)
It’s odd, moving around in a new city with no one familiar around. You don’t know when the auto-driver is taking you around in circles just to increase the meter-rate. It’s kinda lonely, seeing a movie without any company, or trudging from college to college in the hot sun ( i asked for it, a guy offered to give me a lift, but I said I needed a walk )
As is usual, I blew up half my money in Planet M, and part of the remaining moolah on the second-hand bookstores near Pune bus-stand, so I had 40 Rupees in my pocket as I boarded the bus back to Hyd. C’est la vie. :-)
I was continually reminded of this urban legend about a mother and a daughter going to an unknown city in a different country, and booking a room in a hotel. the mother goes out to buy some supplies, the daughter agreeing to stay back in room 201 and catch some sleep. Mother returns an hour later, and to her surprise, discovers that room 201 is empty, no luggage around, no daughter…she approaches the hotel authorities, the receptionist, the liftman, the manager, each of whom claim that they have never seen her or her daughter before…their name isn’t on the register. And yes, the lady is still sure that is the same hotel.
Anybody explain what happened?
at least
1)the people dont look at you as if you were distinctly different from them.
2)nobody throws any threatening/contemptuous glances at you
Now, include these in your experience and imagine life in America.
You wont be too far off the point.
:-|
I think I get your point. but surely, familiarity should get rid of the initial differences, right? Like the same faces at the library, or maybe the salesmen at a supermarket, or even your own room-mates…….
yeah, but I was talking about orlando at lare, like when i go downtown, or shoping…its not too bad, but sometimes it is.
ok 2 possibilities; 2 hotels with same name, different staff.. confusion.
or they were ghosts earlier and then suddenly realised its no fun being ghosts and got back to being humans and mother daughter lost touch. yikes! i suck at this! :P
oh well, i just need some sleep :)
btw, i love the song you’re listening to “satrangi” — dil se
or they were ghosts earlier and then suddenly realised its no fun being ghosts and got back to being humans and mother daughter lost touch
:-) That sounded like “The Others”. I still haven’t seen that movie, though.
But no, both the possibilities are off the mark.
The mother, after coming back, remembers the room, the receptionist, the manager…but they say she and her daughter had never been there!!
I hope your exams are going well.
The plague??
Dont think thats an urban legend though.
correct you are, and yes, it IS an urban legend. check out this for more info.
And may I know who’s this???
Hi
I am new here. I hope you plan to provide the answer to the Pune incident in your next post.
Re: Hi
I already did. :-)
The full details here.