All the 3 encounters had the following things common between them
1) all of them happened post mid night
2) all of them involved one constant member “my car”
3) all of them involved hyper active participartion of atleast one bakwaas gang member who almost screwed our case…( in 2 cases it was Baxi who voluntarily tries to help but unfortunately always simply screws the case…in the other one it was nishit “the gaavwala” who tried to be a jerk)
lets get going with the narration of our encounters
ENCOUNTER 1:
The gang members were all holed in at my place( we usually do that before going for big outing) the night before we were leaving for the “GREAT MATHERAN TRIP” .
We decided to have dinner post-dinner-time at a mohit-chande-priyank find restaurant called “THE LIGHT OF ASIA”..which has now become our regular 3 am dining spot at V.T.The restaurant apart from being open past decent dining hours is famous for its hugely delicious food,for its reasonability and for its complimentary ice creams.
So after having dinner,and fighting for the extra ice cream sticks(which ended with k.k picking up the stick fallen on the road)…we decided to go on a long ride to marine drive and chill out there.
There were 6 of us:
Priyank: driving seat
Mohit: girl friend seat
Yogesh and Susti:passenger seat
Anna and Baxi :back sit driving seat
Anna: chal bhagga Priyank….120 ke neeche nahi chahiye mereko….
His words sent a virtual nitro booster thrill to my accelerator…I pumped it.
Chande : yeah anna pagal ho gaya hai…Priyank tu sun mat…
Baxi: bhaari darinda….
Anna: Priyank accelerator pe khada ho jaaa……khaada hi ho jaa ab tu….
Chande:ye Priyank ..yeah anna aur baxi chaddha rahe hai …tu chad mat…
He was really scared..lolzzz
Mohit: Priyank tu chala…yeah chande ka sun mat..phattu hai…!!!
I wasn”t listening to anyone except anna…..his words still ringing “khada ho jaa accelerator pe”
Lolzzzzzz
I aspired to going beyond hundred……I looked at the speedometer..it was vibrating at 86..almost pleading “don’t test me..i aint a sports car..i am a family car…”
Family…BOOOONNNNG
Not told mom about taking the car out…
Dad had no idea his son is on a joy ride with friends…
One scratch…one single bump on the car…I will be dethroned off my drivers seat straight to my scooty seat..no ..not done…
Nitro booster vanish.. pumping vanish.. anna vanish….
The speed is now 60….
baxi ,anna ,mohit..not happy
chande happy…he will live to marry p*i*a
rishi not concerned….whatever comes easiest or first..
Baxi: sun yaar lets sit here…majja karenge…
Mohit: wahi yaar ..itne jaldi nahi nikal naa hai…
Baxi: haan..i know this one spot…
Mast hai..
It has a jetty and all…
You can see the entire Mumbai skyline from there…
Munnabhai ka shooting hua tha udhar…
Priyank:haan kya???
Baxi:yup..
Chande..chal chalte hai….
Susti:yawning..chalOO!!!

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That’s baxizz word….its always final..and its decorated with tempting words,adjectives and adverbs…in the first half of our engineering career everyone trusted baxi for all great things…some people still do…but ask victims like susti…they’ll tell you…baxis CAT maths though good…his VODKA maths is all screwed up…susti trusted baxi for vodka maths..till recently when he uncovered the mystic way in which he always got drunk and baxi didn’t…
His secret formula was…
What susti thot….half vodka + half sprite = half vodka +half sprite
But what really was half vodka +half sprite = full vodka +one spoonful sprite..
Lolzzzzzzz
Anyway..back to our story…
We got down at the far end of marine drive……where marine drive ends…hoped out of the car…and on to the pavement…
There was a couple sitting there talking…
Baxi passed by them…
We passed by them..
We were all following baxi on the dandi march to this mysteriously awesome jetty….
I still don’t know why we were so excited to get to the jetty..as if mallika was doing a nude dance there…
Suddenly we heard a loud…
SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECH of tyres…
We looked back..everyone except baxi….who was stuck on his goal to get salt of this dandi march…
A group of men jumped out..and drove away the couple sitting there..
They looked at us and one of them called out
”IDHAR AAO”
Priyank: baxi..yaar shayad who hum logon ko bulaa rahe hai…
Baxi: apna baap hai kya bulaane ko….
Mohit.:.shayad baap hi hai dost…police…
POLICE!!the word kinda sends a signal to the spinal cord and shivers it a little..no matter yu have done wrong or rite….
But we were bakwaas gang members…all of us were oozing with over confidence and a virtually magnified ego…
LEKIN…ANDAR SE…. PHATI THI SABKI
“ITKYA RAATRI KAY PHIRTAAY”
Marathi…I was relieved..i am so proud of my mother tongue…especially in Mumbai…it bails me out of almost everything…my teachers,the traffic police and more importantly the T.C.
I started..” kahi nahi sir…asech phirat hoto…just dinner karoon aalo..”
“ITKYAA RAATRI….WHAT ARE YU GUYS DOING OUT SO LATE”???
Mohit: sir we are engineering students….just done with our exams..we are going to matheran tomorrow morning..so staying at his place”
I guess the ENGINEERING word had a effect on the cop….he seemed kinda relieved…
I suppose that’s the only thing that’s happened worthwhile in engineering..we have got a B.E tag…tag to prove decent and nerdy…
Cop”ok,ok…where are you from…”
DADAR
CHEMBUR
GHATKOPAR
ANDHERI
KANDIVLI..
We screwed it our selves….we were sounding like terrorists come from all parts of Mumbai to plan a major bomb planting session in here…
Baxi” sir AAMHI actually ASHHECH IKDEE…”
Baxi hug raha tha…luckily mohit stopped him on time…
MOHIT: sir we study at somaiya college vidyavihar..aani udya matheran la chalalo aahot..mhanoon aamhi hyaachyaa ghari thamblo..”
Cop(now fed up)” ok alright gimme your addresses….”
WOW..adresses…
What the fuck are these guys gonna do???cum up to our place in the morning and tell my mom…shit..i will be so dead…
I wanted to bluff the address badly..but thought its too much complicated right now so ill just give him the rite stuff he needs…I just wanted to get out of this place..fast..
I blurted out the address..
He asked mohit then..”mohit told him”
Meanwhile I was chatting with the other cop
Where are you staying in matheran
“not decided yet sir…well go there and then book”
Thers a good place called mayor resort..”
Ahh ok…
The other guy was done taking the addresses…he called out to this cop….
ACCHA..LISTEN…..GO HOME NOW…DON’T ROAM ABOUT AT NIGHT…
YOU NEVER KNOW WHICH GANG MAY TURN UP AND EVEN BEAT UP YOU GUYS…FOR MONEY OR WHATEVER…THERE ARE DRUNK MOBS OUT THERE…
Alrite sir we’ll get going immediately…
I jumped into the car…and accelerated at 60…anna didn’t say anything…
We were finally out….(we had thought we would end up in jail)
Baxi:”Saala accha hua VODKA ka bottle nahi laaya”
I was relieved…..he did something RIGHT that night…lolzzzzzz
WE HAVENT SEEN THE JETTY TILL DATE!!!
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ENCOUNTER 2:
This is a short stint which happened at marine drive..
On one of our late night drives….we were strolling on the drive after the dinner at light of asia….
There was a whole caravan with us
My car…driven by Mr nishit gogri….who had left his glasses at home…..and cudnt see the man sleeping on the road…(my license was lost)
Mohits bike
Chandes bike
…
We parked our entire troup on the corner of pavement…and went on and sat on the bunk facing the sea…..
(FAR FAR AWAY FROM THE JETTY WHERE MUNNABHAI WAS SHOT )
Just then..the police car passed by…
POLICE AGAIN…
Priyank: yaar…yeh police 100% uthayega apne ko idhar se…
The police van stopped..
A officer stepped OUT.....
Wat yu doing out …..whose car is this????
I said “sir mine”
Whoss driving
NISHIT” sir me”
Why??
Priyank:”Sir I don’t have license”
You have car papers??
Priyank”yes sir”
You have license??
Nishit “ yes sir..BUT MERA LICENSE THANE KA HAI”

Now why did this guy had to blurt out the last sentence…he could have just shown the license and finished the stuff…
But no he has to say..what he wants to say….
Like in his presentation…
“we are working for a company WHICH IS A B.S.E LISTED COMPANY”
Galat time pe galat cheez bakega yeh banda….
Anyway..back to our story….
The cop didn’t get wat he was saying…
I came to his rescue as usual..(not out of saviority…it was my car at stake)
Priyank”Nothing sir….he has license…”
Nishit”yes yess..i have it”
Cop:gud..get along…stop sitting out here…
NISHIT AND HIS THANE WOULD HAVE SCREWED OUR STUFF…
But lets not talk bad about him…the dudes got jaundice right now….he may die anyday…lolzz..jokin gogri…take care man!!!
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ENCOUNTER 3:
Something which I forgot to mention in my earlier “phoonk” blog…..
We were at the ruia katta…after our disastrous 22nd of august…..
After the stench was gone….a police car came by (possibly attracted by the smell)
We were standing in front of the building…near the katta…there was a pav bhaji cart right next to where we were standing..
It was past 12…and the stall was closing down…
The police shouted “GAADI KISKA HAI”
Now baxi has the habit of getting his wrong foot stuck at the wrong place….
He thought the police was asking about our car which was parked near by…
But in reality the police was addressing the pav bhaji cart…..
Baxi :”hamara hai”
Baap…baxi became the owner of my car and the pav bhaji cart at the same time….
Luckily..the misunderstanding got sorted out in a jiffy….and nothing more miserable happened further that night…
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That’s so much for our encounters….i guess we still have around a year before we get out of our college…
But these memories will always stay by us…..cherish them all life long…
Who knows there may be more encounters waiting for us in the following year…
As long as OUR GANG IS AROUND
But yaa for most of this adventures thanks to baxi…
Dude you have made engineering memorable for us…..will live with these experiences forever…..thanks baxi…seriously dude…thank you soo muccccccchhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!





