BiG deaL
It was yet another Sunday on my calender...
And i dint want to open my eyes for "yet another nightmare" (normal
people open their eyes after seeing a nightmare but this is something not normal
we are talking about :D )
I guess god dint want me to "rest in peace" even on Sundays so he gave
me this highly impractical urge to shift with one of my bestest
friends...
To cut a long story short, me and my best friend ve been living in the
same city but in distant localities for more than a year now. The
monotony and boredom of work life (read normal life as well :D)
motivated us into shifting together.
So here we were, searching for a nice 1 BHK flat in a big,bad city
ruled by the 3 M's (MONEY, MONEY and MONEY .... :P) When people of our
age were busy sleeping it off on Sundays and partying hard and late
into the night on Saturdays, we two, poor souls, were struggling to
get a place to live, on every weekend now, for the past 5 weeks. God
surely had plans to show ~No MERCY~ on us :D
No offense sir!
That's exactly how i felt when i used to call the property agents and
they all (ya all, not a single exception) after promising to show the
flat on the same day at some decided time, never used to turn up or
used to chuck off the deal saying that the flat's already booked by
someone else.
And moreover i had almost spent last 5 weekends with my best friend
i.e. i practically ended up dating her for no reason :-/
Weekend after weekend was turning into a fiasco. The frustration had
already crossed "above dangerous" limits. The whole house hunt topic
had become a canker for me. I had bitter fights with my friend,
thought we were too foolish to even think about something like that.
In short i had started losing HOPE :-)
So on this, no different, Sunday, we again went out on HOUSE HUNT!
I already had a rotten week, so was kinda prepared for anything!! Cos
worst would have been another failed attempt, right?? :D
The day was uneventful as usual, property agents dumped us! Nothing
new and adventurous!
We were wandering from park to park and were inviting unwanted and
unwarranted attention :D
And then we were attacked by DEMENTORS (for beginners they are
happiness sucking damned,imaginary creatures) !!!
u are supposed to think about ur happiest memory when attacked by
dementors, but my brain was failing me!
And then it happened, my phone started ringing!
Some property agent like a Patronus had called up to show us a flat at
that very moment!!!!
But life has an uncanny way of getting back to u :) It was a 2 BHK, meaning
higher rent,higher deposit...well that was out of question now, cos we
were ready to give anything for a good locality and a good,clean flat!
There was another catch, the agent wanted us to take "decision" in
t-15 mins cos there were many contenders for the place ( it was HOT
property, u know :D)...the crunchy situation demanded a lot and we
took a brave decision of taking the offer...
well the story does not happily end there...
After finalizing the deal with the agent, (yup u have to finalize it
with them first and then get in touch with the owner, this is the
standard way the Vicious circle works! that means u have to pay the
owner as well as the agent!) we sat in the parking of the same
building which was now supposed to be our ABODE, for more than 2 hours
, waiting for the owner.
Mr.BEEZZZIIEEE BEE arrived at a late hour and brought with him some
gang of other agents. Looks like the news of the HoT property going
away had spread like wild fire and the other agents had come to
confront the owner!! :D We surely were in the middle of some gang
war....MANNNNN it was so exciting! We (me,my friend and the owner, and
ya our agent :-)) were gheraoed by the rowdy gang of agents.
I don't know how we managed to wriggle out of the situation, but all in
all, this whole HOUSE HUNT thingie was turning into quite a show with
enduring performances by Me and Ketaki!
We finalized the deal at exact 5 past 9 PM that day, a very auspicious
time for making property related deals, according to the Great
Jyotishi NightFlier Kelkar!!! :P
So do deewane had finally found an Abudana in this ajnabee shaher! :)
Now a minor task of finding 3 more roomies to share the expenses with
is remaining :-)
God surely ll ve MERCY on us this time! :-)