Read For A Laugh!
Well so,I had to go to the immigration office,appointment time 10:30am Yesterday.
I plotted the "how to" on gps and understood the route to this place takes 40 mins from my location.Applying the contingency i decided to leave home by 9 am and i left at 9!
On going 4 floors down i realized it's a hail-storm day and i had no umbrella.
Thank God for the contingency logic - went upstaris (4floors)
//maybe this was signal enough for what lay ahead,in India we would say so ;)
Took the tram,followed by train happlily reached the last station where i was supposed to be,at 9:40am.Too much time in hand i would say.For the
walking distance (17 mins) I was depending
on the gps plot on my phone.So I
started to walk and …to my surprise my 80% charged
phone,decided to shut down.
Couldn’t
understand what just happened !!
It Just
refused to start!
Do I
know the way – how will I call the relocation rep.
What
should I do?
I did
recall the name of the street “ Rebstocker Straze” and that it was very close
to Main Land
Straze.First I
tried to walk in the direction on my own (without asking people).10 mins
walk and I
did not see any main land straze so thought of checking.
People had
no idea…my accent is Indian ofcourse!
Decided to
go back to the station where I started from and ask the Lotto shop
owners/workers.
So I tried
writing it down on paper - but alas no
I decided
to just walk based on intuition and I did another 20 mins.
Saw the
mainland straze and thought yaay somewhere close kept walking walking walking
for long, ofcourse it was the main road so ….but there was no Rebstocker
staze to the left or to the right L
Recalling
what a colleague had been telling
me - the phones cannot stand cold weather.
(which sounded so funny to me but not
today!)
I decided
to cover the phone in muffler/cap – rub hand,blow air – do whatever to
make it warm J
IT
WORKED!!
So the
phone got back to life and I quickly called the lady I was suppose to meet (it
was 10:36 already).
Asked her
for direction she had no idea but did suggest I take a cab! (they would
know – I wish I was that smart in the first place).
Anyways my
wonderful phone gave me only this one chance and shut down yet again.
I continued
the warm up thing for it while I looked for a cab.
When I
finally got the cab (the driver did not speak English) so I told him to type
what I said on his GPS.
From his
reaction it was like oh here,you just take a right walk and left just 2 mins….
sometimes we dont need a language to commuincate
To which I
said NO,CAB please :) [ I am very rich to walk few blocks now ;) ]
In the
office ,I re-tried to warm up the phone and it came back to life again, called
the representative and met her.
By this
time it was too late already.
I said
sorry many times realizing more that there were two people whose time I had
wasted.
The next
appointment suggested was for Monday (I will be out of the city) so I re-requested
shamelessly for an appointment as soon as poosible.
Got one for today
1:30pm
Any guess
how early I reached to the place this time ??? ;)
Moral of
the story for me:
1) Do not depend on phones – take a
print out or draw the route map.
2) Please don’t trust your Indian
Accent
3) Some problems have very very easy
solutions (like taking a cab!)
