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Mid week morning, chilling weather, least work at hands, non working communicator & server down, what would you do if you are forced to kill time under such situation? Well, I blog about it ;) I recollect a similar situation where I was forced to tuck down to a seat and travel for 4 hours. It was the flight back from vacation and heart was heavy with emotions,sense of missing home and dear ones until next trip, teary eyes with flash back of memories of careless days. On board activities were winded up with dinner and lights dim to soothe the sleeping passengers. There I was, left with no heart to sleep and no mood to swap the pages of a novel in hand. The entertainment channels bored to no end and songs in my music player seemed hopeless. Not knowing how to pass the journey, I gazed around helplessly for minutes..and then,out of no where I hear some one giggling “he he he” beside me..Ooh now I see this guy next to me, sitting with his legs stretched and hands supporting his head, as if spending leisure time at home. I wondered what made him giggle and saw him watching comedy circus on TV. I peeped in and voila, within a minute, there were two of us, laughing heartily at silly jokes on comedy circus!! We made fun of those judges laughing their lungs out and of the poor jokes. Then Singham took the place and we argued over good looks of Ajay Devgan! After almost an hour of conversation, it strike to us that we are strangers and were surprised by the way we got along through this boring journey. Pleasantries were exchanged and riot of laugh continued.  What started as a boring journey turned out to be a eventful evening with a good companion. He laughed at me when he found my nervousness during landing and deviated my attention towards beautifully lit Dubai and its skyline from a height. Once landed, we walked towards the check out counter and bid a silent goodbye with a smile and joined the folks waiting for us.

And now, when I sit to write this down, I realize my dumbness of not asking for his whereabouts, not even his name!! It all happened like in dreams and now I am left with moments to remember and regret to ponder. I have a thank you note for this wonderful person in my credit & wish I get to pay him back some how some day.. Dear stranger, by any chance, are you reading this post?? If so, please do reply. However, thank you God, for sending me right people at right time but am also keeping an account of those idiots whom u keep bumping to me now and then..

Ashwini.