Fridays usually end with Akash and Me meeting up at some place.. But this time around or rather for the last couple of weeks, we’ve not been hanging out too much.. I’m practically broke and he was in Ahmedabad for sometime.. Then came BarCamp 6 and So something or the other has kept each of us busy..

I ended up watchin IPL with Neha and Zu at Neha’s place, admiring Sangakarra’s Run Fest.. I get this call from One Mr. Kesava Reddy saying, “Hi Jayanth, I wanted to check if you are busy, If not lets make a PLAN”.. In the vocabularic world of Kesava Reddy, “PLAN” means “LONG DRIVE”.. I agreed since my only other plan was to watch cricket.. Though things were still being planned, my Friday habits kind of said I shouldnt go and I should stay back and Drink someplace.. But that didnt happen..

I called up Akash at about 10 P.M. and he was at Rendezvous with Hari.. So I fueled up and I met them there for Dinner.. Soon Kesava and Amit joined us and we were off..

I had this crazy route in my mind to go thru the outer ring road to reach the Tumkur Highway.. Kesava suggested we take the route thru Yeshwanthpur but i said NO.. Well, what do you know, it turned out to be a disaster.. There was a traffic jam of about 4 Km.. So we went around driving inside Matthikere finding our way out.. Finally, we hit the roads and it was going well.. Just about a few km away from Nelamangala Junction, I had a flat.. Not just the tubes, the tyres burst as well.. Having a few experiences in the last two weeks, i changed the Tyre and put in the spare quite quickly.. The Spare was running short of air and eventually got punctured.. So after driving up a little at extremely dangerous speeds(LOW SPEED), We reached the truckers check point and found “Kairali Tyre Works”.. The chap was really sweet and fixed the tyres for us..

Between thoughts of returning or carrying on to our destination, we started off again.. We headed straight towards Tumkur and Reached the Toll Gate.. Kesava got a bit Drowsy and went to the back seat and Akash was my new Navigator.. Listening to music of the likes of U2, DMB, Pink Floyd, Shakti, Simon and Garfunkel, etc we reached Cafe Coffee Day..

Amit decides that he needs sleep more than anything and stays back in the car.. Kesava, Akash and Me go in for a Cuppo.. The conversations start with some Technical stuff as usual and ultimately turned towards “Akash and Women”.. Which was really really an interesting conversation.. We statyed there for quite some time and just decided to start back home..

The journey back was kind of eventless, except of moments where some moronic bus drivers would come really really close to my car and would inkove an Expressing on Akash’s face as if his Heart was in his mouth! ;-) We kept singing all through the journey, while Kesava and Amit had spurts of Drowsyness..

We reached the city at about 6.00 and the weather was really really nice.. After the usual Bye Bye at Akash’s place , i headed back home and got some sleep.. I had taken it upon myself not to sleep so that i can drive all the way..

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