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Stuck in office
by Nishant Bahl on Jul 27, 2005 12:30 PM

Yesterday i.e. on July 25th things were pretty fine till 11.30 AM. I wasn't even carrying my rain jacket when I left my place in the morning. Anyways around 11.30 it started raining, but nobody had a clue whats comin there way. After lunch i went as usual for SUTTA with Pandey Ji (Mind u i dont smoke) , but it was raining heavily so i came back and started my work as usual. At around 3.30 we recieved a mail from HR that due to heavy rains all railway lines have stopped and u can leave by 4. We thought of this as an oppurtunity for an early CHHUTTI, and left office. I had no umbrella or jacket, but i left in hope we'll get a cab and leave for VASHI (my place is in vashi,office in Bandra Kurla Complex). When i reached the ground floor (my desk is on 5th floor), i was totally surprised. The reception was filled with water, and that too around 6 inches. There was staff digging out water from that place.Anyways I got out of the office in hope we'll get a cab. I struggled around 1.30 hours in the rain. We tried to get a cab, auto, tempo, truck, anything but consistently failed. It was raining cats and dogs, so much that the water was hitting my body badly.

After 1.30 hours of struggl

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