Back to the Memory Lane - II

Back to the Memory Lane - I

"Yes!!" I told to myself while taking off my sweater and keeping it on the seat next to me as it was not occupied. With that positive note in my mind, I could able to read the novel peacefully.

I heard someone saying a "Hi" and I ignored it as I was not sure whether it was addressed to me or not. Again a louder "HI" and the voice were not that pleasant. I looked up with expressing kind of some light irritation in my eyes. There was a surprise for me. She was standing there looking at the book that I was reading. I immediately expressed happiness in my eyes overriding surprise and that stupid irritation.

I responded, "Hey".

She smiled back to me and that was the first time she smiled at me. There was something special in her smile, name it as "different". I said, "Please sit", taking my sweater and placing it on my lap.

"How do you know that I came here to sit beside you?" she said.

May be she was trying to be very smart with me? But I didn’t care much about it. I replied, "Until now nobody took the pain of walking all the way from that corner of the row till here to say me a Hi!"

"Yeah, you are right. I was getting irritated by the guy sitting next to me. When he is awake he tries to be extra nice and when he is sleeping he snores like a frog"

"Hamm, that’s sad to know. By the way I was not trying to be extra nice to you. I was trying to help someone"

Shit!! Words came out of me! I hate it when people start giving explanation to defend their actions, but it was exactly the same which I was trying to then! I felt like I would not have uttered that line.

"Thank you, you made your point clear though I dint look for any clarification"

I smiled back to her cutting that conservation as I realized that I got into a strange conversation with a stranger!

There were a few moments of silence between us. I was looking outside the window, trying to imagine how nice it will be to fall through that thick layer of clouds below the flight.

"So, you are a software engineer"

"Don’t tell me that your other hobby is face reading!"

"I don’t have to look at your face to tell that" she answered with a smile.

"Yeah, I am one among millions of IT professionals. What do you do?"

"I am pursuing my Law"

"Hamm, Good! Good! We need some good lawyers in India to take up all old cases and give them an end before it’s too late"

"I don’t have any plan to do a revolution in that aspect!"

"Oh come on, you young generation have to change India"

"Can you make it as we young generation?"

I replied with all possible seriousness in my face, "yes, your honor".

She laughed. "Looking at the enormous count of pending cases, it takes ages to close them. And let’s talk something other than law and computers"

[Will continue this in the next post.. soon...]