It’s the end of August. It means the non predictable sporidical downpour very occasionally occurred any time. Since morning a dark cloud was hovering over the sky. Subir works in an auto mobile factory. He had left his home for workshop just at 7o’clock in the morning. All the day it was very humid but didn’t rain. When it started raining it was 2pm. It was raining non stop relentlessly.
Subir had his duty hours over at 6pm. Still then it was raining but not torrentially, only drizzling. Normally Subir commutes to office on road. So he came to bus stop to fetch a bus but there was no bus services due to waterlogged roads all over the city. Subir became at his wit’s end for a short time, then he decided to take an attempt in launch ghat for ferry service.
….Yes the launch service was on but only one launch was waiting there along with only seven passengers. Launch ghat authority announced that the service will be closed at once.
As that was the last ferry it was waiting for more passengers to gather on the ferry but in vain. When the launch left the ghat it was 8pm. All five out of seven passengers alighted from launch within one and half hour. Subir’s destination was upto last ghat. It would take more forty five minutes.
Subir asked another passenger, “Which ghat will you get down?” He replied,” Last ghat.” Just then the launch slowly stopped on the midway in mid river. At first Subir wasn’t worried about it but with the delay of the launch to get normalised Subir got anxious deeply. He exclaimed,” Alas! Today we will reach home very late.” But other passenger was not at all worried about it.” Finding no way other Subir got down to the basement of the launch and returned with the information that the repairing work was going on but it might take one hour more to get normal….
Subir lamented to his co passenger, “It means I would reach home almost at midnight because from ferry ghat I would have to walk on some distance to reach home. How can I manage to reach home earlier?” The co passenger answered,…”I don’t have any problem with it.” Subir asked him,”Why?” The man answered,” I can walk on water comfortably because I got drowned just in this spot before twenty years. Henceforth I cross the river just by waddling.”
After saying so the man got slided into the river to cross it on foot very easily.
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