American Costly affair :)

From: Tina
Date: Aug 4, 2006 1:30 AM
Subject: American Costly affair :)


Well it is not as if I went to sum hilton hotel :) or sumthing ....
just that curious things happens curiously

After a tuf day @ wrk (i mean the humidity while gng and cuming frm wrk ) with temperatures soaring 100F and start of cloudiness.......

My roomie was wrking frm home as i guess she took a toll because of the weather....
the exceptional heat and humidity is amazing too much....(spking like a pucca saheeeb or rather memsahib :) )

Now my roomie was on a bit of cleaning spree so she removed a couple of shipment boxes cardboard waalein jo padein huey theey closet mein ....

Since i was just wrapping up after checking my mails ...she suggested that we cud go and throw the garbage rather than waiting for next day morning....

Meine socha theek hai...atleast it won't look cluttered in our house....

2-3 cartons , a couple boxes and papers (yehan kabaddi walaa nahi hai direct recycleable garbage mein daal detein hai )

it's just 2 min walk ...just outside the visitor entrance....
almost balancing we got out....with the stuff and socha waise hii gng to the garbage can toh cell le jaane ke liye koi zaroorat nahi hai so went ahead locked the door and i took the keys.
Went and threw the stuff and me especially carefull not to throw the key by mistake also in the garbage cart...

It was getting cloudier and was gng on to becum 8 p.m....Chatting that it should not rain atleast tmrw morning we came to the apartment door.... looking at the balcony of the apartment at the back side... i was wondering how easy it is to climb agar ek tree hota.....par balcony ke grill ka koi bharosa nahi ...tootke haat mein aa jayein .. :)

Now we stay @ first floor of an apartment complex ...It is like 12 apartments are there in a two storied building and our house is on the first floor...To enter the apartment complex there are two entrances... the front one u need a key and the behind one also u need a key but it can be opened by buzzing or ringing the bell

ekdum picture jaise ...arrey english picture .... :) (eg : 'you got mail ' mein tom hanks buzzes and meg ryan asks frm top kii whose there and the person inside can open the door by press of the button) though our apartment does not look like that one... :)

so the back gate is the visitors gate and u can also open it with the help of the key ...

Now wht can go wrong in such an innocent surrounding.....

soocho soocho
dimag pe zoor do .....

kuuch gadbad lagta hai ..mujhe bhi nahi lagta

I was opening the door with the key and was wondering kii yeh jaa kyun nahi rahee hai ...
Since it was roomie's key socha kii maybe sum other way the key has to be handled...

so gave her the key and was looking at the mailbox...

' Oh no ' ....merii roomie ne bola ....
I was like what happened ...

' This is my office ka keys.... ghar ke chabbi toh andar hai '

i was like yeh kya hua ... wht to do....

meine bola koi baat nahi try karege maybe this key might wrk
but how do we enter inside....


we requested the lady staying dwnstairs to buzz open the door....who gladly obliged.....
After opening we raced up towards our apartment to try the keys koi nahi wrk ho rahee...
Actually there are two locks and we had easily put the push lock as woh easy hota with our hands filled with samman....
And unfortunately that was the lock for which our third room mate's (who was still in office) key was broken ...

Ab kya karein
I remembered that the balcony was open.(generally we close it to conserve AC ).. went to the front door to see kii whether sumone cud climb on top....

Opened the front door but ensured tht one of us is thereas door stopper nahi toh phirse bahar....
The height of our balcony was definately higher and there were no more friends here who cud climb to save us damsels in distress :)

I went to ask the neighbors the key kii by chance se sumone's matches and we are able to get inside the house....
and my room mate went to ask her collegues key's and also the phone to try to get sum ideas...

ab ismein bhi kya ho sakta hai...tuf luck none of my neighbor's key wrked...
she suggested that we will hav to call emergency number of the apartment....
since we did not have phone she suggested we cud use her phone ...
tab tak my roomie collegue came and offered the phone....

Called up the maintenance guy who said they will be coming .....but it will be charged...
we were like ok baba...
now we are waiting for tht person and i was kinda wondering how cud we circumvent the situation...non of my super nuclear brain cells gave me any idea... :(

within 10 mins the maintenance guy was there (courtesy his staying in next block) ...
and we were waiting near the front door with one of us as door stopper ...

the person came and went to our door and opened the locked door with his maintenance kii chabbi maybe skeleton key :(

and my roomie and i kinda went sheepishly inside and my roomie's collegue asked him ...how much

he said $ 25....
i was like blink blink did i hear right....
and the collegue asked (pucca indian jo theheraa ) any discount :)

atleast he asked ...
me and my roomie were like shocked kii awaaz hii nahi nikal rahee thee...

he was like if u wud hav lost the key then it wud hav been $ 75 + $25 for opening...
but (the gr8 indian comedy show) if it was in the maintenance wrking hours then it wud have been free of charge....
:))

we profusely professed our thanks and after he left my roomie mentioned just for a swipe of key (though profundly grateful ) apne 1200 rs gayeein :(( india mein toh poora lock aa jatta

Now i guess even if we are near the door we will take a key and go :)

Hope fully we won't forget this soon :))

thts wht i say ..things get curiouser and more curiouser and curiously like this :))

well if u hav not slept till now then
tak care and hav a gud day

regards,
Tina