Dudley

careless planning can lead inadvertently to bad adventure & in this case left me thinking, some good memories some bad ones.
When i started at 6 p.m in the evening to the wheatsheaf bus stop, the first mistake i did was to not note the journey planner properly. But yes, this should be the second mistake as the first mistake itself was to have a 'journey planner' instead of calling someone & finding out the best route !!
The 3rd was then to board bus number 57 after i missed 600. The fourth was to take 126 and get down at the wrong stop. The fifth was to take 120 and get down 2 stops before where i should have got down.
The only good thing that happened in all this was i met 2 pakistani guys and my impressions of pakistanis changed. The first man was himself not sure of where the temple was. So where did the temple come from. Ok. I had planned to start to the balaji temple at 6 p.m and thats the reason for me making the journey planner first.
Righto. So with the first pakistani man. He asked me to get down 2 stops after where he got down & this was oldbury. Our conversations started with whether i knew urdu and that hindi is closer to urdu etc., and when it was nearing its end, he told me - brother, pareshaan mat hona. wohan hamare log hain, woh aapko rastha dikhayenge.
The second man was a taxiwala and he took me off after i got down due to the forcing of a caribbean lady in bus number 120. I got down mainly because i saw the bus driver and felt sympathetic for him. Also that i saw that 87 has a stop at that point.
He was almost crying after my conversations with him and the lady :(
The second man left me at the entrance , did not take money from him ( i didnt offer him any because i sincerely felt that he did it just out of humanity for his own kind and because he thought i was lost )

And what was the last conversation we had - 'so where r u from ? India, chennai. i am from islamabad, pakistan. pray for me too to your god. bye. cheers. thanks'.
vroooom....
hindustan, pakistan - circumstance. bhai-bhai ; keep this thought going.