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Mumbai to Pune
This happened about a month
or two ago near Lonavala and even though it sounds like something
out of the X-Files or from an Alfred Hitchcock movie... it's real!
This guy drives from Mumbai to Pune and decides not to take the new
expressway as he wants to see the scenery. The inevitable happens
and when he reaches the ghats his car breaks down - he's stranded
miles from nowhere. Having no choice he starts walking on the side
of the road, hoping to get a lift to the nearest human habitation.
It's dark and raining and pretty soon he's wet and shivering. The
night rolls on and no car goes by, the monsoon rains are so strong
he can hardly see a few feet ahead of him. Suddenly he sees a car
coming towards him. It slows and then stops next to him - without
thinking the guy opens the car's door and jumps in. Seated in the
back, he leans forward to thank the person who had saved him when he
realizes there is nobody behind the wheel!!!
Even though there's no one in the front seat and no sound of any
engine, the car starts moving slowly. The guy looks at the road
ahead and sees a curve coming (remember, this is in the hills and
there is a steep,steep drop beyond the curve). Scared almost to
death he starts to pray, begging the Lord for his life. He hasn't
come out of shock, when just before he hits the curve, a hand
appears through the window and moves the wheel! The car makes the
curve safely and continues on the road to the next bend. The guy,
now paralyzed in terror, watches how the hand appears every time
they are before a curve and moves the steering wheel just enough to
get the car around each bend. Finally, the guy sees lights ahead.
Gathering his courage he wrenches open the door of the silent,
slowly moving car, scrambles out and runs as hard as he can towards
the lights.It's a small town. Wet and in shock goes to a roadside
dhaba, which is open, and asks for a drink.They find some hooch and
give him a shot. And he starts telling whoever is in the dhabba
about the horrible experience he's just been through.
A silence envelops everybody when they realize the guy isn't drunk,
and is really frightened - he's crying and shaking. So they give him
more hooch and talk about what they should do, whether to call the
police or find a priest, or what. But just then two guys(santa &
banta) walk into the dhaba. One says to the other "Look, Banta -
that's the guy who got in our car when we were pushing it." |
