India just celebrated her Independence day… and we proud Indians were damn happy for her! “What a progressive nation”, we proclaimed… In her usual high spirits, Sheena proposed a plan to celebrate… - Lets go drinking!! I thought it was a wonderful idea, considering we don’t do enough of that already!! ;)
By 9 p.m. we three girls had just about made a plan and after numerous “u pick a place” and “I don’t want to go dancing – just drinking” kind of intense discussions we dolled up and made our way to TGIF….. We absolutely love the Ultimate Long Beach Iced Tea there!! And oh the Ultimate Mud Slides!!! Orgasmic….! So we had aplenty of those and we were haaa-ah-hapy by midnight… We’d made a couple of friends in the table next to ours, made a couple of trips to the ATM next door and made more than a couple of trips to the restroom…. Ah the good times!
When the pub finally shut its doors and switched off its lights and the friendly waiter turned quite sour, we thought we’d stayed there long enough and we’d better leave!
Sheena had sobered up by then. The woman has an amazing switch-mechanism… she’s passing out one moment and walking in a straight line with her left hand on her right ear the next… we were good because anyway she was the one driving…:) hic…
We walk up to our car parked outside TGIF and she opens the doors. We were just about to enter when this Ford Icon pulls up right next to us and its windows roll down. Three men in their mid-twenties smile at us… “Come sit with us baby”…. “Holy Shit…Sheena, Ananya…get in fast!”. We sit in our car and wait for them to leave. They don’t.
We decide that they are juvenile drunks and will leave us alone so we pull out of our parking spot and speed down the road. We hardly notice them frantically taking a u-turn and following us. We don’t even notice them hanging out of their windows shouting obscenities at us. But we do notice them when they scrape the length of our car on the left as Sheena tries turning! She saw them through her rear view mirror and swerved to the right in the nick of time, else those lunatics would have sent us spinning against the curb.
SHIT SHIT SHIT…..
Her fender is damaged and our ego’s bruised!
So independence huh…. Women are still fighting for freedom… its not a war for equality anymore… it’s a war to just leave us alone…
By 9 p.m. we three girls had just about made a plan and after numerous “u pick a place” and “I don’t want to go dancing – just drinking” kind of intense discussions we dolled up and made our way to TGIF….. We absolutely love the Ultimate Long Beach Iced Tea there!! And oh the Ultimate Mud Slides!!! Orgasmic….! So we had aplenty of those and we were haaa-ah-hapy by midnight… We’d made a couple of friends in the table next to ours, made a couple of trips to the ATM next door and made more than a couple of trips to the restroom…. Ah the good times!
When the pub finally shut its doors and switched off its lights and the friendly waiter turned quite sour, we thought we’d stayed there long enough and we’d better leave!
Sheena had sobered up by then. The woman has an amazing switch-mechanism… she’s passing out one moment and walking in a straight line with her left hand on her right ear the next… we were good because anyway she was the one driving…:) hic…
We walk up to our car parked outside TGIF and she opens the doors. We were just about to enter when this Ford Icon pulls up right next to us and its windows roll down. Three men in their mid-twenties smile at us… “Come sit with us baby”…. “Holy Shit…Sheena, Ananya…get in fast!”. We sit in our car and wait for them to leave. They don’t.
We decide that they are juvenile drunks and will leave us alone so we pull out of our parking spot and speed down the road. We hardly notice them frantically taking a u-turn and following us. We don’t even notice them hanging out of their windows shouting obscenities at us. But we do notice them when they scrape the length of our car on the left as Sheena tries turning! She saw them through her rear view mirror and swerved to the right in the nick of time, else those lunatics would have sent us spinning against the curb.
SHIT SHIT SHIT…..
Her fender is damaged and our ego’s bruised!
So independence huh…. Women are still fighting for freedom… its not a war for equality anymore… it’s a war to just leave us alone…
2 comments:
Woah!!!! Do i see a booker prize writer in the making.... :) this was very well written pa.. :) every lines held my attention... and the ending was just beautiful.... loved the way you tied the meaning of the title to the story.... :) genius..
Hey hey hey dat was indeed nicely written.Truly stands out as to why sometimes the cops go harsh on the otherwise idiotic pub closure rules....
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