I guess we have all seen the movie. Curious case of Benjamin Button. A story of a man living his life in reverse. Born old, died young. This story has a lot in parallel with the movie. Hence the title - The curious case of Rathi's Cycle.
First of all, let me introduce everyone to our story's protagonist. Pankaj "Tau"Rathi. The champion of Sirsa. The first person from Sirsa in IIT, the first person from Sirsa to go abroad. In his own words "Gaon mein hawa ho gayi hai". And that Wind has turned into a full fledged tornado now that he has moved to Perth, Australia to work for A mining firm.
This is where our story starts. Everyone who knows Rathi knows that he is a Tight wad. His daily commute for work ends up costing him around 80 dollars a month. Now being the excellent accountant that he is (just ask Teja for confirmation), Rathi immediately brought out his account booklet and made a few complicated calculations to look at financial benefits of alternate ways of travelling. In the end he concluded that going to work on a bicycle would end up being the cheapest option.
So Rathi went out on a hunt for the cheapest bicycle in Perth. First he went to a bicycle store. There he found out that he didn't have the money to buy even a single tyre from that store. Not losing hope, Rathi went to K-Mart (Australia's answer to wall mart) but came out empty handed from that search as well.
Next he went to a second hand bicycle store. The cheapest bicycle he could find there was for around 400 dollars. He asked the store clerk if they had any cheaper bicycles. The clerk made a sarcastic comment that they don't have anything else. Maybe he should go and look for a cycle in a junkyard. Now Tau is not very proficient in English (just ask him his English CAT score in case you have doubts about this). He was not able to pick up the sarcasm. So Rathi went to the junkyard and bought a 15 year old bicycle for 200 bucks.
Rathi was over the moon. In his eyes, he had struck a massive bargain for the bicycle and had found a economic, healthy and Eco-friendly way of travelling for work. Daily he used to leave for work at around 5:00 am and come back at around 7:00 pm. He used to go as slowly as old people fuck (because he has asthma) and used to piss-off a lot of commuters on his way, but Rathi didn't give a rat's ass. In fact he enjoyed making everybody else's life as miserable as his own.
One night after coming back from work, Rathi parallel parked his bicycle in off road parking spot in front of his house. He came inside, had his dinner and went to bed dreaming about his bike and his ride to work the day after. He woke up in the morning , refreshed and excited to once again hop onto his bike and ride away in glory. He got dressed, picked up his keys and walked out of his house to where his cycle was parked. And he nearly had a stroke looking at what he saw out there.
It was an atrocious sight. Gone were the smooth beautiful worn out tyres, the bent spokes, the rusted handle bar, the torn out seat with springs sticking out, the bell that didn't work and the broken pedal. Instead Rathi saw a small pink coloured cycle in the parking spot. Rathi was flabbergasted. How could this have happened? But Rathi did not have too much time to think about this as he was getting late for work. So he picked up his new bike and went to work.
He worked hard all day long. He had a lot on his mind and was not able to concentrate on his work. The whole cycle incident was just killing him. He made a lot of mistakes in his work, got shouted at a lot, spilled coffee in the kitchen and dropped his keys down the elevator shaft.
At the end of the day, he had reached the limits of frustation. The only silver lining among the clouds was that he would finally be able to go and ride his cycle now. As he approached his cycle, he got another big shock. His cycle had transformed again. It now looked like a kids tricycle.
Question that arises now is what exactly is going on with the cycle. Rathi has thought long and hard about this and has narrowed it down to the following two possibilities
First of all, let me introduce everyone to our story's protagonist. Pankaj "Tau"Rathi. The champion of Sirsa. The first person from Sirsa in IIT, the first person from Sirsa to go abroad. In his own words "Gaon mein hawa ho gayi hai". And that Wind has turned into a full fledged tornado now that he has moved to Perth, Australia to work for A mining firm.This is where our story starts. Everyone who knows Rathi knows that he is a Tight wad. His daily commute for work ends up costing him around 80 dollars a month. Now being the excellent accountant that he is (just ask Teja for confirmation), Rathi immediately brought out his account booklet and made a few complicated calculations to look at financial benefits of alternate ways of travelling. In the end he concluded that going to work on a bicycle would end up being the cheapest option.
So Rathi went out on a hunt for the cheapest bicycle in Perth. First he went to a bicycle store. There he found out that he didn't have the money to buy even a single tyre from that store. Not losing hope, Rathi went to K-Mart (Australia's answer to wall mart) but came out empty handed from that search as well.
Next he went to a second hand bicycle store. The cheapest bicycle he could find there was for around 400 dollars. He asked the store clerk if they had any cheaper bicycles. The clerk made a sarcastic comment that they don't have anything else. Maybe he should go and look for a cycle in a junkyard. Now Tau is not very proficient in English (just ask him his English CAT score in case you have doubts about this). He was not able to pick up the sarcasm. So Rathi went to the junkyard and bought a 15 year old bicycle for 200 bucks.Rathi was over the moon. In his eyes, he had struck a massive bargain for the bicycle and had found a economic, healthy and Eco-friendly way of travelling for work. Daily he used to leave for work at around 5:00 am and come back at around 7:00 pm. He used to go as slowly as old people fuck (because he has asthma) and used to piss-off a lot of commuters on his way, but Rathi didn't give a rat's ass. In fact he enjoyed making everybody else's life as miserable as his own.
One night after coming back from work, Rathi parallel parked his bicycle in off road parking spot in front of his house. He came inside, had his dinner and went to bed dreaming about his bike and his ride to work the day after. He woke up in the morning , refreshed and excited to once again hop onto his bike and ride away in glory. He got dressed, picked up his keys and walked out of his house to where his cycle was parked. And he nearly had a stroke looking at what he saw out there.
It was an atrocious sight. Gone were the smooth beautiful worn out tyres, the bent spokes, the rusted handle bar, the torn out seat with springs sticking out, the bell that didn't work and the broken pedal. Instead Rathi saw a small pink coloured cycle in the parking spot. Rathi was flabbergasted. How could this have happened? But Rathi did not have too much time to think about this as he was getting late for work. So he picked up his new bike and went to work.He worked hard all day long. He had a lot on his mind and was not able to concentrate on his work. The whole cycle incident was just killing him. He made a lot of mistakes in his work, got shouted at a lot, spilled coffee in the kitchen and dropped his keys down the elevator shaft.
At the end of the day, he had reached the limits of frustation. The only silver lining among the clouds was that he would finally be able to go and ride his cycle now. As he approached his cycle, he got another big shock. His cycle had transformed again. It now looked like a kids tricycle.Question that arises now is what exactly is going on with the cycle. Rathi has thought long and hard about this and has narrowed it down to the following two possibilities
- The cycle is an Autobot that has come to earth to protect it from the evil Decepticons.
- I'm telling you the government has a car that runs on water man, they just don't want us to know....because we would buy all the water, and then there would be nothing left to drink but beer, and the government knows that beer will set us free!
What exactly happened is still a mystery. Maybe we should invite Scooby and the gang to solve it.
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