Yesterday, in the evening, I suddenly got a call from my dad asking me to start early from office. Though I asked him the reason, he was reluctant to tell and all that he told me was to come home early. So, after winding up my work, as the clock ticked 4, I started to go home. Oh my god, speeding above 40kmph was impossible. The reason was not the traffic but the chillingly cold weather. Being fortunate enough to get a PS-2 station (@non-bitsians: a company where we do our final project) within 5 km from my home, I reached there in 10 minutes.
Now, what surprised me was that my dad, mom and sis were standing outside the house waiting for me. While I started to think why in the world did I deserve such a warm welcome, I noticed a big object in front. It was a car, a new one and our old car was nowhere to be seen. ‘Why did we have to sell our old car to get a new one? Do we really need a new one? I haven’t even become perfect in driving. So why a new one so soon? And why wasn’t I even consulted before buying it?’ All these thoughts started to swirl in my head. Just as my dad gave me the keys and asked me to try driving it, all those thoughts completely vanished from my head and a sudden surge of excitement about driving a new car replaced them.
I got into the car, locked the door and gave the ignition. Before, I even changed the gear it started to move [:O]. ‘What a car was it! By the way, what car was it?’ I didn’t even bother to notice. It either had a default 1st gear or someone had forgotten to bring it back to neutral while stopping it. Whatever it was, I wanted to bring it to a halt so that I could start all over again. I braked. To my utmost horror, it started to accelerate! This was really a crazy car. The positions of the brake and the accelerator had been exchanged in it. ‘Was it a manufacturing fault or was our old car abnormal?’ Before I could ponder more on these thoughts, the car accelerated and unfortunately there was a dead end and it was not too far away!
Only one thought ran through my mind. I had to brake. As the car was nearing the wall, I pressed the accelerator (supposed to be the brake in this one) as hard as I could. What a bad day! There was no effect at all. ‘Did someone disconnect the brake wire? All that happens in movies..is that real? But why would someone want to kill me?’ I then remembered a car accident that I witnessed just few days back. It was very disturbing! I was completely not ready for such an end. I had to brake somehow. So, I tried whatever I could. Turned the headlights on, turned them off, pulled the steering wheel towards myself, pushed it away, sounded the horn, turned the AC on, opened the windows and nothing worked [:(]. Finally an idea struck me. I decided to jump out of the car. And I had only few seconds to act.
Diving onto the muddy drenched roads seemed a better option than to get my head cracked. But in either case, the car would crash. Wondered what my dad would say! It was then the time to act. Firstly I had to open the door and then time the jump properly. As I pulled the door knob up….the car came to a halt. I cracked it finally. I brought the car to a halt. ‘The brake wire was tied to the door knob!’ Oh my god!! And I looked behind to find all my family members laughing. Huh! What a terrible dream!![:P]
C’mon guys! You can’t expect dreams to be logical!!
