Thursday 27 December 2007

Good things happen to good people!

Some people think good things happen to good people. So I'm good I guess, because I've lost my cellphone twice and got it back both times.
Once I left my cell in an autorickshaw in Chennai. The minute the auto sped off I realised my loss and let go of my tears. I tried calling my number, but the phone was switched off. There was nothing else to do except call up amma and tell her of my great misadventure!
My mom sounded cool and told me philosophically that I would get it back if I was meant to get it back. Some consolation that was!
I kept trying my number once in a while, only to hear a monotonous voice telling me that the number was unreachable.
In half an hour, my cousin, who used to work nearby rushed to my office with the information that my mom had spoken to the auto driver and that he had asked me to pick it up from his stand!!
I got back my phone after paying 100 bucks, and that too, because the other auto drivers insisted.
Not that I minded paying the sum, but I'd just like to clarify that the auto driver who had my phone was very decent about the whole thing and kept refusing the money I tried to push into his hand.
But this is not an isolated case. I've seen this happen in Delhi, too. One of my friends from college left her cellphone in an auto and it was picked up by the next person to hire the vehicle. This person, a foreigner who knew neither Hindi or English, communicated to the auto driver that he first wanted to find the phone's owner before going on his way!
A colleague of mine left her phone in an auto and missed it a good half hour later. When we finally got through to her number, the auto driver actually told her that he'd come and return it at her office in an hour's time and just asked her to pay for the distance he had to travel without a passenger!
That in Delhi!
Why I'm reminded of all these lost and found cases is because another colleague left her phone in the cab that dropped her home from office last night. The driver said he would return the cell tonight.
We're just keeping our fingers crossed...to find out if she too figures in the 'good people' list!!
But while we are waiting to be the good people that good things happen to...wonder what we'd do if we had to be those good people who did these good things to us.

1 comment:

  1. on a philosophical note - what is good? what is bad?

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