Saturday, June 30, 2007

Night at the Police station

How does it feel... when u reach home at 1.30am from work n realise that u ve left ur flat key at office...

i am the right one to tell u this; it feels really sad, angry, pathetic, frustrated n wat not...
ma cab has jus left, office 30 mints drive from here, n to add to it ma phone is dead...

'm really d*** tired... was thinking o jumpin on to ma bed d moment i enter ma house.

wat cud i possibly do now... sit on the stairs till morning?? oh gosh... i jus cant... if i had ma phone i cud ve called up any of ma friends to come n pick me....
or at-least cud ve done time pass talkin to someone.... but the phone battery is completely dried off.
tried sitting there for sometime but gettin d*** bored n frustrated... took a walk down... atleast if i had someone to talk to it 'd not be this bad...

i reached near the police station which is down the lane. there is gonna be someone awake there... chalo ll sit there n chat wid someone ( i knw 'm wired sometimes ).
i entered the police station, there r two officers on duty, sleeping on their respective chairs. There, inside the Cell i cud see two eyes staring at me, from the dark.

" excuse me", i manged to get one policeman awake finally, after trying that line n number of times. I shud nt ve come here in the first place. i am so d*** stupid.
Now that he is half awake, looking at me wid such a huge Qst mark, wat shall i say. I told him the situation, n told that i ll sit here n ll go to office when i cud get a rick in the morning.
He jus got up called his collegue.. n they said somethin in the regional lingo n said "no no.. u cant be here jus go away from here".
Though it was rude, I said ok. chalo acha hi hua, din want to b there anyway. I walked out of the station, n thought of takin a walk back to ma place... as i was walkin, i heard someone running, turned back... two police men came running to me, caught ma hands firmly n started pulling me.
'Hello.... wats d matter..." . "come to the station, ll let ya knw". I am being pulled like 'm a prisoner jumped out o d jail. ma left arm is still jus recovering from the accident, he is holding it tight, I jus pulled it out of his hands... n he is like " hey catch him, he is trying to run". oh god wat mess 'm i in now.

Reached the station, here the man who looks like an Inspector, started interrogating me, where did he come from though... " who 'm I?" " which terrorist group do i belong to", "was the plan to bomb the station or kill the policemen". Wow this is getting really interesting, now I really feel like being a sport n take part in the fun. i said " sorry sir I cant reveal anything"...n I put ma head down( hahaha... stupid officers aint they)

when they got ma name... they started having a serious discussion, din understand much; but cud make out that, I am a Muslim terrorist from Pakistan or Afghanistan, I may ve links with Talibani groups, n through me they r gonna burst a huge gang operating in India, and obviously get promotions n rewards, n be in the media...hmmm... not a bad idea... even i don mind being in the media, but i wont cover ma face with a black scarf, 'd they la me go home change, get fresh n come, before the press arrive! I look so tired u see... lol... funny ppl...

hey no time to joke, i took ma id n flashed it to them. " how many more fake IDs do u ve?".
hahahah... i cud nt stop ma self... i jus laughed n said... " that was a good one mate".

I dono y 'm finding it a joke when they can seriously charge me for some crap they r talkin abt.
Now the Inspector s really p***** off wid ma laughter. he said something to the other man, n he took me to the Cell. its dark room. he said we ll talk in the morning.

Now i realise wat ma friends mean, when they say, i ve an "i don care attitude"( well i never agree wid them, coz i knw i am serious abt a lot o things, but its jus that i cant show...may be...). but this is the limit. i am sitting in a dirty cell of a police station at around 2 in d morning, n i don.... hey hang on, y should i care or worry when i ve nt done anything.

there r 2 more guys in d cell...
they r staring at me... i said " Hi "... that was worst ice-breaker ever in this situation.
they started laughing.

Now this is the chance to interact with ppl, whom u 'd never want to meet in life again.
common no one is so lucky to get access to lock-ups everyday

"rape kiya kya?" That was SUCH a question. "nehi ji, ghar ka chabi bhool gaya"
we built a real good rapport in no time

one is a rickshaw driver, here coz of drunk n driving, who can go home in d morning, once his bro comes n pays the fine.

The other one is here coz of pick pocketing. he is a regular visitor here...
He told me about his experience... it was fun... he really is an expert, he did a demo for me, i swear, i din even feel when he took ma wallet out of ma pocket.

but they also ve bad days, which took him here. I told him about the boards at Bus stand n other places, "Beweare of Pick Pocketers", n he said ya thats a sign for us to move to some other place.lol. we were really laughing laud.

the police guy came, n asked me to come out. This time the Inspector saahab is kinda cool n calm. So i gave him the clear full picture.i told him where exactly ma house is, n gave ma office number from d id. He called up.

"chay piyoge?" now that he knws i am not a terrorist.
"haan par.." where r they gonna get chay from. the other officer came with cups o tea... " sir aur do cup hoga... woh, mere doston keliye ". " acha wo log dost bangaye aapke?" i was so happy to ve tea with 3 police men n the 2 from the other extreme. And they two were happy too, coming out of d cell n having tea with officers.
we al were chattin till morning

i dono if i was convincing enough, but tried to tel him to concentrate on some proper job, he is healthy n young " kyun apna jawani barbaad kar rahe ho mere dost". he said he wont get a job... " saab aap kaam dilado apun imaandari se kaam karega.. kyun dila sakteho?"; i dono if i can, but asked him to come n meet me, once he out of this case.

the rickshaw driver said he ll drop me to office once his bro comes, but cud din wait till then. " was nice meetin u all"

the Inspector said " do stop by, sometime"
wat a place to get an invitation from!

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