A night....not so long...!!

[23-Apr-2010]
[Fri 03:37 hrs]

Thursday...1230 hrs...came out from the exam hall...dunno why all the engineers story start from the exam halls..or after that..maybe exams are the only thing they don't get adjusted to..its like a new experience for them every semester..!!
As I was saying..we came out from the exam hall...it was blisteringly hot outside..it was like we are being double fried on a stove..well we still had to leave the exam hall..the sooner the better..it is a place that gives me creeps..U know..i can go to most haunted place in the world..but not my exam hall..
Ahhhh...as I was saying..we..rather I..left the exam hall..went to my room to find my roommates already there..preparing weed..!
I thought one or two joints would be better..as my head was already spinning..lets spin it at top speed and see what happens..but as i lied down on my bed..i slept..n slept..n slept till 9 in the evening..well i guess i deserved it..for it was three straight nights since I had slept..i tell you..exams kill the engineer inside you..its a torture..should be banned by the human rights commission..
I thought somebody was calling me and that there was earthquake..u see..u think out of the world whenever someone breaks your beautiful nap..thinking u are dead..!!
So i woke and the first thing i heard.."chal Panagarh..khana kha ke aate hai.."..I was like..why the fuck do you need to go 20 km away for food.when it is abundantly available here..still the "taste" there is good..so I agreed..they asked me to arrange for a bike..i said it would be impossible as everybody with bike is out..so we had to resort to some 1000 year old 'Yamaha RX 100'..which was dry...!!
Reluctantly I got up from the bed..and went to petrol pump with empty bottle and filled it with more than a litre of fuel..thinking that would be enough for return trip..now what do u expect..its a bloody 100 cc bike..how much can i consume..we finally went..six of us..on two bikes..on Grand Trunk high way in the night..on bikes..with no horn..no headlights..not even a bloody tail light...
I was riding one bike and one old man..lovingly called "Daddy" by us..was on another bike..chanting the name of all the deities in the world..we reached the "dhaba" safely..had a good time there..drank beer and ate good food after ages.. everybody was feeling a bit high..so we stayed there for some more time till we both..me and "Daddy" are normal..we said we are so we rolled back to our college..and the journey starts there...
We had just left the place when that 1000 year old 'Yamaha RX 100' started making a well known sound..sound which every biker fears..bike was dry..wtf...!!
Imagine this..three people..on highway..all high..and a dry bike..that was it..everything we drank..every bit of 'highness' that we were having dried along with the dry tank of that "1000 year old bike"...
I knew a gas station ahead..so I started pulling the bike..while my co riders..bloody rascals..opened another bottle..finally after much pushing and pulling the bike reached the petrol pump..."24 hrs service" that was written over there...we went 'woke' up the '24 hrs service' personnel and asked him to fill it up..he plainly replied..we don't have petrol..gr8..a gas station with no gas in it..happens only in Durgapur..
We tried starting the bike again..pulled everything that was there in the bike hoping that last few drops of petrol will drive us to next station..n whoa..it started..we sat on it and drove it like it was our getaway bike and we are convicts on the run..but those few drops of petrol could give ride of only 5 min..after that bike did 'Dhuk dhuk dhug' and stopped..we had no choice than to pull it again..and the bloody heat..it was killing..so we removed our shirts and started pulling bike..the bright young minds of a premier engineering college..pulling a bike in the dead of the night..with shirts..on a highway..how does it sound...!!
Well..the next gas station had petrol..and he was more than happy to fill it..
Finally we had petrol..we had bike..but still we didn't had our shirts...!! never the less we drove it back to our college..and swore to beat the owner of that bike black and blue..

It was..and will be one of the most memorable nights of my life..it was something never happened to me before..true petrol did dry up before..but gas stations were nearby and had petrol...!
A night like this..with friends..who are high..and with any matches to lite a smoke..it sure is something that is to be kept in memory for a long long time...!!