iNTROSPECTIVE…

Yup! I did it again! Now u must be wondering what I did, that I’m so excited about. Well, I’ll give you some background first.

I like roaming with my friends… Let me rephrase that… I love roaming aimlessly with my friends. Roaming aimlessly means going places without knowing where we are headed to. This can only happen if we have our own vehicle. So… I love roaming aimless with my friends in my dad’s car. No problem right… Ummm… Actually, there is a small problem. My car doesn’t have central locking, so I sometimes (make that often) forget the car keys inside the car and lock the car from outside. Yes, I did it again today… I’ve become an expert at forgetting my key inside now.

I’ve forgotten the key inside the car almost half the times I’ve gone roaming with my friends. Well, let me just recall, twice with my family, far away from home, so we had to break the lock (well, almost break it ). Thrice with my friends. Once with my sister, that’s today.

The first time with my friends was when we had gone roaming, we roamed around half of North Goa, came to Miramar Beach, and there I forgot the key. Luckily, my house is close by so I could call dad with the keys. The second time was when we had eaten at Fidalgo and were supposed to go roaming after that. This is also within the city, so I called dad (again). But it wasn’t my fault, Loverboy distracted me. The third time, we had gone to Chorao island by ferry, I was the first person to get into the ferry while coming back, when we had almost reached back to the jetty, I realized I had forgotten the keys, and both my friends shouted out at the moment, NOT AGAIN!!! But I had managed to open the lock with a twisted rod in less than 15 seconds. If dad knew I had gone to Chorao, and I had locked the car with the keys inside, IN THE FERRY, I don’t think I’d get the car again. Its good he doesn’t know… yet. Only my friends present at the moment there would know the heat of the moment. Except dEE, of course, who didn’t know what was going on till I got the rod and stuck in inside the car door after removing the strip off the window… coz he was too busy listening to music. Till then he was wondering why Loverboy is running up and down you should have seen the expression on his face.

I had vowed I would get central locking installed then, but my friend suggested a “more economical” solution. He said, just tape a metal rod below the car. SMART!

Today I took my sister for a treat to “Chaat Street”, since her exams got over, then I had to go to Bata showroom to buy sandals for myself coz the old one broke. Didn’t find anything in the Panjim Showroom, so came to the St. Inez showroom, and I forgot the keys again. So far, this is the closest to my house, so I called dad n he told me, if I ever forget the keys again, I’m not getting the car again.

I hope I continue getting my car to go around with my friends… and continue forgetting my keys inside giving my friends a little adrenaline rush.