It was Friday evening. Nashik to Kasara by bus takes (generally) 1 and half hrs. It was already late. We had to reach Kasara in 1 hr and 15 mins to catch the other train.
I remembered the Taxi driver in "Jab We Met" as I saw the bus driver. Passengers were very eager and shouting to start early and this guy was doing his rituals as cleaning the glass, feeling the water bottle etc. The poor conductor was victim of good and very good words from us; driver was in his own world.
At last we started at 6.40 just an hour in hand. And...When driver made his first turn out of the bus stand, i knew that either we will reach in time or we won't reach at all. You guessed it right. It was a roller coaster ride down the Kasara ghaat. We all first asked driver to slow down and then (as I said he was is in his world) started to pray. Somebody started with Ramraksha, some with Maruti Stotr, and rest of us with just Hey Ram.
But as I am typing this to tell you the story, driver made it half an hour early to Kasara to give us ample time to not only buy our tickets but have a Vada Pav as well. ;-)
