How could this happen to me?!!

Sometimes things are out of your control, your intuition says do not do this, still you end up doing that! Here is an incident where negligence was at its height and cocksureness was at its best!

Today (Friday 05th March 2010) I thought of going to office earlier than my usual time. I was not sure about the company shuttle numbers which run during this time (7am to 7:30am). I called up transport desk and found out that B6 LV 46 is the bus number and it stops near Koramangala Maharaja Hotel at 7:18am. I reached MH at 7am. Please do not ask why so early!? Knowingly ya unknowingly reaching the bus stop early helps me to be in my comfort zone. In fact this is applicable to my life. Just to make that one ‘nth moment’ rest in peace, I keep myself restless for the other 1st,2nd,3rd......(n-1)th moments!!! That is the norm of Miss S’s life! Can’t help!

I reached the bus stop and wondered which side of the signal I am supposed to stand and wait, searched for the necks with Accenture Ids hanging around, no luck!! Then my super active brain which was kind of blank at that moment (because of lack of sleep on the previous night) decided to go to other stop (which is Sony World signal) with a hope that one or the other Accenture bus will stop there. I reached Sony world signal and met another Accenture Employee there. Both of us shared Hi, Hello, I am blah blah, I am from blah blah and all. Amidst our chit chat we missed 2 shuttles. Fine! I called up the transport desk again, and found out that, there are 2 more buses which will pass via sony world signal. As soon as I hung up the phone, noticed that one bus passed via other side of the signal. Ohh nooo....we started waiting for the last one...(I didn’t pay attention when the transport guy told the last bus number..I hated myself for this at a later point of time when I paid Rs.300 to the auto driver!). One more bus B6 MV 20B came from nowhere and stopped there, myself and my new friend ran with ecstasy and got into the bus which was about to move. Phew... we got the bus finally. Story doesn’t end here... You have to bear with me for some more time!! ;)


Hmm...Now the bus is taking different route than the usual one. I am all excited to see different part of Bangalore through the window. My friend miss A asked me, ‘are you sure we are in the correct bus ? I have a feeling something is wrong because they have not asked us to sign the trip sheet’. ‘B6 is written on the bus na.. don’t worry we will reach Bang6 (Accenture office in white field is called Bang6)’ I said confidently, busy looking outside the window. Finally we reached a place where we could see only Wipro offices and one or two Wipro employees in the bus got down. She said.’ Arre how come Wipro employees in our bus! even I wondered! Suddenly the bus stopped and one after the other with Wipro tags started getting down. Then we realized, Ohh God we are in the wrong bus and at the wrong place!!.

Okay...we said ‘let bygones be bygones’ (any better word to console yourself at such a situation?) and asked the auto driver which place is this? He said this is Electronic City..Gosh this is seriously different part of the world!!! (When you are supposed to go to White Field in the peak hours of the day in Bangalore). We decided to take an auto to go to other part of the world and started our journey. She was kind enough to lend me her hair clip after seeing my battle with the wind to keep my hair in place (or probably the state of my hair and sleepless shocked face reminded her of some hairy moments). Auto journey was fun as always: P. But it didn’t last long because auto stopped somewhere in the middle and we had to wait for next means of transport under the scorching sun. Waiting has to end at some point of time, it happened in our case also... finally got another auto which can compete with any type of cart and reached Whitefield... Phew!!

I am not a slipshod person, I take care of small things, I will be extra careful when it comes to trying new things.... still how could this happen to me?? Over Cautiousness entails carelessness??