Monday, January 12, 2009

Abhi's phone call

Abhi called me (we both were in US at that time, and he used to call often), and as was his habit, went on to talk, and to talk and so on. All our phone talks normally ended with me explicitely telling him that I had become too bored to continue, so I did it then too.

Me__
: Yaar, ab nahi jhela ja raha hai, I m disconnecting.
Abhi: Abbe baat kar na ... I am driving and they say that you should keep talking while driving ... otherwise you may fall asleep and accident ... blahblah blah.

I talked (listened) to him for some more time, and again my patience ran out ...

Me__: Abbe kitnee der aur chalaye ga gaadi, where are you driving to?
Abhi: Yaar main New York ja raha hoon.

OK, I thought, NJ, where he lived, is not far from NY.

Me__: OK, where have you reached?
Abhi: Yaar actually I am driving from DC to New York.

Me__: Abbe!!! and how far have you reached,
Abhi: Just exited DC, acutally I had just started when I called you.
Me__: @#&#@*(

With a whirl of abuses, and (for a change) meaning every bit of it, I banged the receiver down.

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