In which Mr. Crawly creep-ed out Mr. S !

While laughing at poor DJ’s plight while reading this, I suddenly recalled this incident and laughed even more.


Once upon a time (= a couple of years ago), yours truly was going to Lakshmi Road and got caught in such a horrible traffic jam on Karve Road that even the proverbial ant wouldn’t be able to overtake the vehicles that were practically kissing each other. Yours truly (hereafter referred to as YT), surprisingly, was not at all affected and continued progressing with the traffic at a snail’s pace.


About half way towards Deccan Gymkhana, one Mr. Scooter behind YT started sounding his horn. YT first decided to ignore it thinking that eventually Mr. Scooter (hereafter referred to as Mr. S), would realise that it was impossible for YT to make space and allow him to overtake. However, this was not to be. Mr. S continued honking like crazy and eventually managed to get YT all irritated. YT, sarcastically, gestured for Mr. S to overtake from wherever he could. Neither did Mr. S overtake nor did he stop honking. By this time YT turned right on to the two-wheeler bridge towards Poona Hospital. Mr. S was right behind, honking away. The traffic was just as neck-to-neck as before.


At the Poona Hospital signal, finally, the traffic eased up and Mr. S drew up his vehicle to YT’s side and started gesticulating wildly. Now YT got reaaallly angry, stopped her vehicle and demanded Mr. S to stop too. Mr. S was only too happy to do that. Angrily YT demanded what his problem was and Mr. S pointed to YT’s back and managed to utter just one word, “Lizard !”


For a moment, time froze for YT ! But, YT being what she is, immediately stood with her back to Mr. S and asked him to flick Mr. Crawly away ! Now it was Mr. S’s turn to freeze. But seeing that there was no way YT was going to touch Mr. Crawly or let Mr. S go away without doing the honours, he mustered up sufficient amount of courage and with a swift flick of his wrist that would put even a seasoned batsman to shame, flicked Mr. Crawly away, resulting in some shrieks in the direction Mr. Crawly was flicked :)


Epilogue:
* That night, Mr. S dreamt of huge lizards trying to gulp him down. Whether this incident has left Mr. S emotionally scarred for life is unknown.

* Mr. Crawly settled down with Ms. Crawly and produced many Masters and Misses Crawlies. Today he heads The Academy of Creepy Crawlies and teaches the course “How to terrorize humans”.

* YT survived to tell her tale. She doesn’t have nightmares. She hasn’t written a book about the horror she had to endure. However, she loves to regale all friends (actually, anybody who is willing to listen) with this anecdote that she finds highly amusing.