i know mumbai has its share of perverts... i have come across a lot of them in my growing years... i remember the old times (obviously when i was young :p) when someone came close to me and whispered, 'hey sexy!' or 'wow beautiful' etc etc.. every girl goes through this regardless of how beautiful or how pretty she is... but what happened today would surely take the cake from all those other episodes of my life... (and i surely wish the cake is made up of horse shit and i definitely wish i had the pleasure to shove the cake right down their filthy mouths!)
i met up with an old school friend today... she had to visit some place at andheri and she asked me to accompany her... we had a great lunch and then headed back home... unfortunately we did not get an auto, and so we decided to pick a bus that would take us to the station... after dropping her off at the station i decided to walk home (which is about 7 mins from the station)... it was nearly 3 pm and i was hoping to catch a nap as soon as i reached home... the road as usual on a sunday afternoon, was less congested, with the cars/bikes moving at a better speed than you would expect on an arterial road...
i was walking on the road as the footpath was uneven... there were not many people walking along... suddenly a bike zoomed past me and slowed down.. for a moment i thought they would try to pull my bag... i caught hold of my bag and stopped right there... the biker stopped a little ahead... he was accompanied by another man... i didn't know what was happening... till suddenly the biker screamt, 'hey baby, wanna come along? lets go somewhere' (he did say a lot of things i don't remember now. and i don't remember if he spoke in hindi or english)... i was so shocked that i blurted out, 'fuck-off you bastards.'... then i realized my mistake and shut up... i thought it made better sense to abuse those morons in my head rather than create a scene on a relatively quiet road... he zoomed away after saying all this and i started walking back home... my brains screaming all the time... my lips whispering in anger...
fuckers
bastards
creeps
perverts
assholes
morons
chutiya saala kutta kameena... (urgh!)
(do forgive my sad abusive vocab... i am not someone who ever uses abusive words... so i know just a few of them and use them only when absolutely necessary)
i walked on, wondering if the guys were lurking around the next corner... i decided to scream if they ever tried to touch me... i decided to note the bike number and lodge a police complain if they harassed me again... i kept walking on still abusing in anger... i noticed a few people throwing me 'is she crazy?' glances... i didn't bother... i was seething in anger... i neared the andheri flyover crossing... i was halfway across the crossing waiting for the green signal to let me pass... scanning the area to see if the biker was around... suddenly i felt someone behind me... i turned around and saw it was some eunuch beggar moving towards a car... he/she (i am not sure what to use here) moved a little further away from me and said, 'kya madam, kahan jaa rahi ho?'... and this really freaked me out... i passed across a dirty glance and wondered if the whole world was scheming against me...
i almost ran home... wondering if it was a wrong day for me... wondering why was i attracting such weirdos today... and hoping this never happens to me ever again...
