It was a bright, sunny morning in the summer of 2015. We were all getting ready to go to watch Khaleja. I was a big fan of Mahesh Babu and so were my friends. We were a gang of seven, so we decided to take two cars; three in one car and four in another. We had planned to reach the hall within half an hour; however, the story unfolded very differently.
The car which I was in led the way, and we only assumed that the second car was following us. That was true for a while, but in some time, we turned around to see that we had lost them. We went on with trying to find our way to the theatre anyway; they would ask someone along the way to guide them and make it there as well. There's no dearth of people walking on the road to ask directions from in India, anyway. Only after twenty minutes did we realize that they weren't the ones we had to be worried about. We were lost!
We tried asking the pedestrians for directions but none of them could explain the way with clarity and we kept getting into narrower lanes. At one point I felt like we were just going around in circles, until we finally hit a dead end. It was then that a kind old stranger offered to guide us back to the main road. He rode on his two wheeler and we followed him, breathing a sigh of relief at the first wide road that we hit. We thanked him and then went our way. With the help of another two or three people, we finally managed to reach the cinema hall just in time.
But alas! The tickets were sold out. We called our friends to inform them that there were no tickets and they could turn around and go back home no matter where they were. But to our surprise they were sitting in the cinema hall and munching popcorn! They had taken tickets for us too, and told us the seat numbers and asked us to come as soon as possible, since the trailers were almost over.
After we finally settled in our seats, we got around to talking about how they had found their way and managed to reach the cinema hall so quickly.
"Nisha, how did you figure out the route to get here? I thought you guys were lost!"
"What?" Nisha laughed. "It was actually pretty simple, Sameera!"
"How? We got lost in some crazy maze of roads," I told her, only to hear some more laughing.
"Didn't you use navigation?" Nisha asked. And that's when I realized how unfortunate it was not to have inbuilt navigation in our car.
"Well, no," I told her. "We don't have a Tata Zica now, do we?"
The car which I was in led the way, and we only assumed that the second car was following us. That was true for a while, but in some time, we turned around to see that we had lost them. We went on with trying to find our way to the theatre anyway; they would ask someone along the way to guide them and make it there as well. There's no dearth of people walking on the road to ask directions from in India, anyway. Only after twenty minutes did we realize that they weren't the ones we had to be worried about. We were lost!
We tried asking the pedestrians for directions but none of them could explain the way with clarity and we kept getting into narrower lanes. At one point I felt like we were just going around in circles, until we finally hit a dead end. It was then that a kind old stranger offered to guide us back to the main road. He rode on his two wheeler and we followed him, breathing a sigh of relief at the first wide road that we hit. We thanked him and then went our way. With the help of another two or three people, we finally managed to reach the cinema hall just in time.
But alas! The tickets were sold out. We called our friends to inform them that there were no tickets and they could turn around and go back home no matter where they were. But to our surprise they were sitting in the cinema hall and munching popcorn! They had taken tickets for us too, and told us the seat numbers and asked us to come as soon as possible, since the trailers were almost over.
After we finally settled in our seats, we got around to talking about how they had found their way and managed to reach the cinema hall so quickly.
"Nisha, how did you figure out the route to get here? I thought you guys were lost!"
"What?" Nisha laughed. "It was actually pretty simple, Sameera!"
"How? We got lost in some crazy maze of roads," I told her, only to hear some more laughing.
"Didn't you use navigation?" Nisha asked. And that's when I realized how unfortunate it was not to have inbuilt navigation in our car.
"Well, no," I told her. "We don't have a Tata Zica now, do we?"
This blog post is inspired by the blogging marathon hosted on IndiBlogger for the launch of the #Fantastico Zica from Tata Motors. You can apply for a test drive of the hatchback Zica today.
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