Mahalaxmi Moment
It was a lazy saturday noon. Pankaj(my cousin brother) and I boarded a train to Mahalaxmi(for Non-mumbaites a suburb in Mumbai). We were planning to go to worli sea-face (u must have got this one.right),we got down at Mahalaxmi station and started walking towards worli (I know its far , but we had time),as we were walking we saw Mahalaxmi race course and decided to barge in, as neither of us had been to race course before. As we were entering through the gates an middle aged man handed me a almanec about horse races. Pankaj and I tried to read it but it didn't make any sense to us.It was kinda difficult to decipher.
We then bought the tickets and went ahead to watch the scheduled race. It was amazing watching these beasts running (reminded me of the movie seabuscuit). After watching a couple of races and the fabulous females there, we decided to continue our journey , in the mean time my cousin got a phone call on his cell phone, and as soon as he answered the phone we were caught off guard by the security personnals of the race course, they snatched the cell phone out of his hands and demanded identifiation and permit to use the mobile phone on the race course.
Later we came to know that we needed permit to use a mobile phone on a race course, as bookies bet on the horses and the bets can be manipulated. And the security personnel thought of us as bookies, and took us to their supervisor.
Supervisor threatned us to lock up in a prison with a case registered against us with the local police. Listening to this my cousin was frightened and hysteric. I on the other hand, put up a fight with the Supervisor and was trying to prove our innocense and ignorance about the rules of the race course. There was this man sitting with the supervisor in completly inebriated state, he saw the copy of almanac in my hand and asked the obvious question(If this is your first time, why are u carrying a almanac?).I tried to explain in all possible ways, I could, to convince him, that it was given to me by a man while we were entring the race course.But he did not buy it.We also suggested them to call the person up from the phone log of last recieved call and confirm, that we were not betting.They said they would investigate it and untill then we go to prison or pay the fine.I got frustrated and started swearing and using the F**K word. My bro got tensed and saw the situation was going from bad to worst.
Pankaj came up with a story of we being students, and we did not have that kind of money. After lot of convincing and drama(he literally begged and cried)to let us go.We were allowed to go out with a warning.
It was a lazy saturday noon. Pankaj(my cousin brother) and I boarded a train to Mahalaxmi(for Non-mumbaites a suburb in Mumbai). We were planning to go to worli sea-face (u must have got this one.right),we got down at Mahalaxmi station and started walking towards worli (I know its far , but we had time),as we were walking we saw Mahalaxmi race course and decided to barge in, as neither of us had been to race course before. As we were entering through the gates an middle aged man handed me a almanec about horse races. Pankaj and I tried to read it but it didn't make any sense to us.It was kinda difficult to decipher.
We then bought the tickets and went ahead to watch the scheduled race. It was amazing watching these beasts running (reminded me of the movie seabuscuit). After watching a couple of races and the fabulous females there, we decided to continue our journey , in the mean time my cousin got a phone call on his cell phone, and as soon as he answered the phone we were caught off guard by the security personnals of the race course, they snatched the cell phone out of his hands and demanded identifiation and permit to use the mobile phone on the race course.
Later we came to know that we needed permit to use a mobile phone on a race course, as bookies bet on the horses and the bets can be manipulated. And the security personnel thought of us as bookies, and took us to their supervisor.
Supervisor threatned us to lock up in a prison with a case registered against us with the local police. Listening to this my cousin was frightened and hysteric. I on the other hand, put up a fight with the Supervisor and was trying to prove our innocense and ignorance about the rules of the race course. There was this man sitting with the supervisor in completly inebriated state, he saw the copy of almanac in my hand and asked the obvious question(If this is your first time, why are u carrying a almanac?).I tried to explain in all possible ways, I could, to convince him, that it was given to me by a man while we were entring the race course.But he did not buy it.We also suggested them to call the person up from the phone log of last recieved call and confirm, that we were not betting.They said they would investigate it and untill then we go to prison or pay the fine.I got frustrated and started swearing and using the F**K word. My bro got tensed and saw the situation was going from bad to worst.
Pankaj came up with a story of we being students, and we did not have that kind of money. After lot of convincing and drama(he literally begged and cried)to let us go.We were allowed to go out with a warning.
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