Saturday night parking woes

Thinking that you have heard about Saturday night fever but what the hell is this Saturday night woes? Well, to say the least this is the misery inflicted upon hapless people who just want to eat in peace by taking home a take-away from places like Pizza Hut or a McD by all those software denizens that have been unleashed owing to the weekend - having been glued to their monitors the whole week! Pune roads are bad as it is but what makes it even more irritating is the fact that parking becomes a very big problem. Like the other day I went to PizzaHut near my apartment to get a take-away at about 7.45 PM or so and there was place for parking my bike and yet couldn't do so because the other bikes were parked in a hap hazard manner and didn't let me get to that empty slot. It all started the moment I spotted that empty slot and wading my towards it and lo and behold there is a smaller bike with a middle-aged woman sitting on it - seems her husband left to give the order while parking the bike across the entrance making my entry into the parking lot impossible! By the time that very knowledgeable an civic person came out with his take-away and allowed me in the empty slot was filled. Boo-hoo! I couldn't but do anything else other than stamping my feet on the ground in anger. Finally my weight training paid off as I found that there was a huge gap between two haphazardly parked two-wheelers but nobody wanted to set them straight and park their own. I lifted each of them and made place for my own bike. Order given and take-away delivered in 20 mins flat. Cam out of the PizzaHut only to find that there was no way out as the flow has increased and vehicles both two and four wheelers were parked all over the place in zig-zag patterns. I remembered that "find a way out" puzzles that I used to play with keen interest in the magazines and newspapers. I did eventually find a way out of that parking maze. I was inching my way across to that exit slowly avoiding getting any scratches on my bike and I was just 5 meters from the exit and BANG! there she was - one fat middle aged woman riding on a 2 wheeler - with not enough horse power to make it into the thirties once she starts riding - came and parked her bike right at my exit. The moment she came into view I asked her politely "Mam! Can you please wait a minute? I want to go out" she said very rudely "Go back the way you came and exit from the other end!" and locked her two wheeler and walked away as if it had nothing to do with her! I had to again play the "find a way out of the maze" and get out. The moment she walked away my anger knew no bounds and I actually thought of hitting that "pink" "scooty pep+" bike with mine. I am pretty sure that nothing would have happened to my bike but her fiber body endowed bike would have been damaged pretty badly! But lucky she was that I am not like I used to be about 4 years ago - she must have thought that I was thinking "Pink se pangaa nahi lene kaa!" like in that ad. But neither is she as cute as the bubbly Zeinta nor is her 2 wheeler as strong! Anyways I managed to get home before my take-away got cold.

The guy in the picture biting away into that burger is me - at McD - It was just a month after I came here to Pune. I haven't been to a McD or a KFC before that.