insanely india

Thursday, September 15, 2005

mcdonalds meal TO GO!

Ok so its time to go to ahmedabad!
everyones all packed and ready to go.we have the 5 pajeros. Should be enough haina?
But no. We forget that there are only four boys, one male teacher and 29 females. Hmmm...One huge suitcase, carry-on and handbag for each female.
If u cant picture it, its alot!
khair...the drivers did their best to squeeze us, our luggage and themselves into the cars, long enough to make it to the train station.
Tight squeeze...we ended up sitting in the oddest positions, on top of each other holding luggage back and off our heads with our arms. At one point i felt an itch on my leg and no amount of scratching would relieve it, to which mao said,
"Sweetie, it might help if you scratched ur own leg!"
Crap!
Finally we get to the station and an ocean of coolies surrounds us. We’d been warned to keep an eye out for pickpockets and luggage thieves! So we all stood around our luggage like commandos until the coolie fees were being negotiated.
Wow we had a lot of luggage.
khair...we stood there while passers by stares at us and whispered to each other,and i kept catching the "psssst pssst pssst pakistani psssst pssst"
parts!lol!
Its amazing how without us wearing signs that say we're Pakistanis, and the fact that we do to an extent look the same, we could still be recognized.
Ok...coolie fees decided, every group was assigned a coolie and told to keep an eye on him too.
As my group walked, we spotted a McDonalds. Now I’ll add here that my group was the most organized and easy to work with. We were always ready before everyone, and never created issues. We thought practically and made sure we were prepared for everything.
'Whisper’ who looooves McDonalds remembered that we'd be getting no food on the train, and that she refused to live on ruffles lays and coke. So we pitched in money and bought meals for the six of us.
As we boarded the train, and with 15minutes to departure, one of the other girls spotted our food, and exclaimed about what a smart thing it was for us to do that.
So she then proceeded to collect money from everyone else and along with one of the boys, an alumni, and 2 other girls, went off to buy food.
Note: it takes a long time for such a big order to be ready.
We felt the first nudge of the train. Crap!
"Someone do a head count!" yelled one of the boys!
The McDonalds buying committee were still at the McDonalds stall.
The train began to move. All of us gave out a unanimous scream.
"Wait! Everyone’s not on!"
The food group turned around just in time to see the train start to move.
Without a second thought, leaving 2000rs worth of food behind, they ran for the train.
The McDonalds staff, god bless them, ever so ethical, grabbed the food and ran after them!
Food group_"STOP THE TRAIN! WAIT FOR USSSSS!"
McDonalds staff_"MA'AMS UR FOOOOODDDDDDD!"
It was a typical scene from a movie, and if ur getting a funny picture in ur head of three females and a guy running like mad after a train with three McDonalds staff members running after them with food, ur on the right track!
And just as 'pacha' managed to gain some feet ahead of the girls, from one of the train doors, (in full SRK mode from dilwale dulhaniya le jainge), a man popped out and reached out for 'pacha'.
'pacha' despite hating SRK, and his 'unrealistic' films, lol, reached out his hand too...hoping to grab the man's hand...and just as their hands touched, 'pacha' tripped and fell on his face!
So then u had a train full of worried sick and many crying Pakistanis, a station with four very 'shit scared' Pakistanis, and three very efficient Macdonald staff members!lol!
khair...the alumni remembered that on her class trip to India, they had missed the train too, and then took my friends and got a cab to the next station, where they boarded the train to the sound of loud cheering and applause!
*With the food of course!