the last trip!

This must be the most concise outing anyone can ever had.. I, with five of my closest friends at IIT, pondered on the map with a lens. The purpose: to look for the places to go for this extended weekend. We started with Leh-Ladakh and 10 people to go; came down to Dharamshala- Mc'leodgunj with 8 people to go; further narrowed down to Amritsar and still 8 people to go with and finally, on the eve of the D day, decided on Agra- Fatehpur Sikri and now, with only six of us left. Though only one of the group members was in full mood of globe-trotting, all of us reluctantly agreed to go. The sentiment of the last trip of college life was seriously touching.

Finally, after all the delays that one could make in his lifetime, we left for the our destination with Rs. 400 (collectively) in real currency terms and were relying on the plastic money, The ATMs!

Auto wala bhaiya was stopped near an ATM as we were to withdraw some money to avail the trip but thanx to the RBI's new rule, all the networks, of all the banks were down in order to make the services available for free to all users at ATMs of all banks.

That was the real blow! None of the ATM was found working and that caused a U-turn to our recently started trip to Agra. Ashamed, aghast, cheated. enjoyed.. cheered, we headed back to the hostel, had the morning tea at sasi and silently, with a long smile on the face and the thinking of what others-who saw us leaving-would say, entered the hostel. As soon as we entered our rooms, we just bursted into laughter, made fun of each other and termed it the best trip we had ever had. No matter how short the trip was, we enjoyed it a lot and it became unforgettable in our memories for the time immemorial. Thanks my lovely pals and of course a special thanks to indian banking!!!