After the TCS placement debacle, I got placed easily in Wipro Technologies. She was very happy for me, and we spoke on the phone for nearly two hours. I started home that very night, and reached Chennai the next morning. We decided to meet on Tuesday, which was three days away. I readied myself as much as possible. I had a haircut and a shave, and couldn't sleep properly on Monday night.
Unfortunately, I woke up late on Tuesday morning. With no time to have breakfast, I sped towards Spencer's plaza on my bike. I had told her I would meet her sharp at 9.30 AM, but it was already 9.40. I was still about five minutes away from the place, when the signal nearby it just turned red when I was about to pass. I cursed the signal, as I had to wait for another five minutes. The traffic was unusually heavy that day, both motor and pedestrian traffic. I waited for the moment when the signal would turn green. As soon as it did, I revved up the bike to maximum acceleration and shifted gears in quick succession. Then many things happened at the same time.
The car in front of me (it was a silver Toyota Corolla) suddenly swerved to the left. I was going at full throttle, and so couldn't put on the brakes immediately. In a split-second decision, I decided to move further left to avoid collision with the car. But to my dismay, I found that a few pedestrians were walking right on the road, in the middle of my path. I had no option but to apply the brakes, and the next moment I was down on the road with the bike on top of me, as the bike skid on the road. The last thought that occured to me was that the car was gonna run over me.
to be continued....
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