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Good Cop / Bad Cop

Walking down 7 floors of stairs in the early hours of the morning when the moon still holds dominion is not an easy task. Definitely not an easy one when you are hungry, But when your stomach does the grumbling, you just have to yield. In this city of Bombay ( yea it was and will always be "Bombay" to me   ) after midnight if your hungry and you don't want to travel all the way to someplace in town for seekh kababs (however wonderful that thought may seem) the nearest place you can get your stomach filled is with idli sambhar on a cycle. So it was there that I headed off to, where the guy had parked his cycle and was offering people food, coffee and small doses of cancer ( he seemed to be selling a lot more of cancer than the other things he had to offer ). Suddenly the familiar noise of that engine that makes us all alert and wonder if we are doing anything wrong hits my ears, the sound of that engine comes closer and the idli vendor leaves all of good cust...

The Collector

This morning the guy who clears out the waste from the building came and said he was collecting bakshish(bonus) for diwali. I told him to wait for a moment, I went to my pant checked how much cash I had on me and then went back to the door and asked the guy bakshish mein log kitna dete hain?( how much do people generally give? ) He said" 50 ya 100" logon k upar depend hain I stepped outside and locked the door behind me.  The guy was like kya hua?  what happened ) I told him even I'm coming with him to collect