"Af, today we ran away from cops!
Shikha and I were in her car, and we just parked for a minute to go to the chemist and when we came back there was a chain and padlock on one wheel. We'd parked in a no-parking zone. So annoying! And then one man was around, he said that there's a cop who does this often, and that he takes too much money and we should not give him much... So we checked our pockets and only kept about 200 Rs outside, to show the cops when they came... and then this really fat cop came... when I saw him only I thought, oh God, someone loosen his belt! It was so tight that he could barely walk... then he came and muttered something and demanded 400 rupees, we showed him our 150 Rs and told him we were students and this was all we had... but he said that we should make some arrangements and then he went away... and we were like what the hell... and waiting around... he came back in sometime and said.. at least give three hundred.. but we said we only have 200 rupees.. and then he got angry and he was very rude... he gave us his phone number and he said we should call him when we had some money and again he went away... what utter nonsense he was! we called him and told him to come back and let us go at once... and he said get the money... then we just went to the hardware store and bough a hacksaw ... it's no big deal for us.. in college we work in the metalworks lab, so we've used it so many times before... and we started breaking the lock... thankfully it was just a simple padlock... I was keeping guard and an eye out... and Shikha was cutting the lock... we gathered quite a crowd... one small boy was just standing there and staring with his mouth open... and one lady was riding a bike and she also stopped and was looking... and one man started giving us advice.. he said we should put some water.. it would become easier to cut the lock! anything they were saying! then in 5 minutes the lock was cut... and quickly we drove off! it was awesome... and the hacksaw only cost 60 rupees...
then the cop, he had Shika's phone number.. so after some 20 minutes he called.. we didn't answer only.. I wish I could have seen his reaction when he saw the broken lock we left there for him!... some 4-5 times he called.... and then he started giving missed calls! As if we're going to call him back! When I told mom, she got so worried and said why did you do that? you should have called rusi uncle! but it was so much fun.. as if that fat cop would come running behind us all the way to Loni!
what fun it was, af!"
* Zoozie is the baby sister, who is studying Product Design in Pune.
