Brooklyn Subway Station , NYC:8.20am
As an everyday's story , dressed in the formal attire with the StarBucks caramel frappacino in hand I am as usual walking faster in the 3inch high ALDO heels to take the escalator down by two levels and hit the D6 downtown train on time which is 8.26am.
My mind:"God!! please lemme get the train today...
I dont wonna miss the train...
OMggg I dont wonna face John if am late for the meeting....
God help!!! Delay the train by 2 mins..I oopss (I trip)
Phew Phew!! I am almost thr...just another level...aaaa"
8.25am: As I walk down the stairs to reach D6, an old lady conveniently hits my hand and there I get a free shower of my frappacino on me...
Old lady : "aaa I am verry Shorryy..."
She had a very different Chinese-English accent
I raised eye brows and said "aaa that is ok...." , Now I can't return her a smile if she had expected that from me..
8. 27am : the train arrives , I see that I gotta go down few more stairs and find my way through that city crowd to get into that train.
My mind : " Gosh!!! , Run....."
It took me fraction of a sec to take the command from my mind and immediately process it...But just on time when I am almost there , the doors close and the train leaves
I stand there stunned.....
My mind: "on any other day I can take it but not today..... the 9am meeting is important...OMggg JOHNN(my Boss)..... the next train is at 9.20am, Buses??_(schedule problems) , drive??(with traffic I will never reach)...What do I doo???"
I sit on the bench at the same station contemplating on what to do and digging into my purse for a napkin to wipe the coffee stains on my dress.Right then I hear a voice
Stranger lady: " Did u miss your train too??"
I look up to her as she was standing right beside me, dressed formally,pretty and perfectly tall Indian gal. I smile to her and say "Yeah!! :( "
Stranger lady : "Hmmm looks like even you dropped the Starbucks on yourself too just like me "
she points out on herself
I give her a smile and she sits next to me on the same bench
"even I missed my train , I was running right behind you....It is quite nice sometimes to find someone in the same situation as ours...funny right!!"
me: " haha, ya may be but I really wanted to get on that train"
Stranger lady: "So did I, I had a 9am meeting...and moreover it took a while to figure out the D6 station coz I am new to this place.."
me : " aa , where are you from....??"
Right then I see the same old lady interrupting in our conversation
Old Lady : " Heyloo galss! AllGood?? "
Stranger lady : " Omgg U are back again, I think I dropped my coffee on myself and I missed my train..Alll because of youuu...."
me: "Hoho chillaxx , she is an elder person...but even u dropped ur coffee because of her??"
SL : " oh yeah, I saw that she hit you but as she ran towards me, she happen to hit me with the same force... seems like she planned to hit us both..."
Old lady : " Nawoo Nawoo , I did not Intend to do it"
Me: "yeah!!, its cool mam, no offense.."
the old lady site next to this stranger gal and say "did you both realize , you had a same intense of the fate"
the SL and me look at each other and gave a clueless reaction.
The old lady digs out two cookies from her bag and gives us both each.
me: "No thanks ! mam" I dont believe in fortune cookies
Old lady: " They are not fortune cookies, they are Swap cookies" and she give a smeary smile..."Have them gals, they do no harm but have them at the same time both of you.."
SL: " oh ok, I am hungry anyways..." she looks at me and says " common I can not have unless you dont according to what she says...dont think so much , have them..."
she whispers in my ears and says " I am sure, looking at her she can not harm us..hehe"
and I eat the cookie at the same time when SL eats.
Zoooooooooooooop.............
