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Anything can happen…


Anything can happen in this world. I have always believed in this. And it does. Perhaps it does because I believe it does.


It was early on Saturday morning. It was drizzling. I was going to the rehearsal of KK. As I was driving up the lane, S, M and O were driving down. They motioned me to follow them. We went to the next lane to a joint that sells delicious hot vegetable patties.


We parked our vehicles, O on the same side and S and I on the opposite side of the road. We went in, quickly ate and came out in about 10 minutes.


As we walked out I saw that there were about 6 to 8 cows of varying sizes standing very close to my motorcycle. There was no way I was going near them…I’m mortally scared of cows (long story…some other time!). So I gave my keys to S and told him to bring my bike to this side.


He started walking across and suddenly stopped in his tracks and started laughing hysterically. I called out to him, “What’s the matter ?” He was laughing so hard, he could only gesticulate asking me to come a bit closer to see what he saw. As I walked across the road, I saw what he saw and, after an initial shriek, I too started laughing like crazy.


Guess what I saw ? A black cow was eating a large patch of my bike’s seat cover !


Needless to say, O and M too cracked up and between fits of laughter we managed to shoo away the cows and prevent them from gobbling up all of it ! :)

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Unknown said…
LOL :D
I wanna see your bike now!
14 July 2009 at 18:57
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