Now, this one is really funny !

I am a dentist by profession and I have a Practice/Clinic on a very busy crossroad. The establishment next door is a Stationary and Book Shop , run by two brothers. They are pretty decent fellows. They do all this Computer printouts and photostats etc. So they get a lot of footfall. Most of their customers stay around for a minute or two, they don’t take a lot of time concluding their purchase. And most of them would park their bikes/scooters in front of my Clinic , partly obstructing the entrance. Considering the facts that they DO NOT take a long time, plus I am okay with the boys running the shop and I am a pretty cool person myself , I don’t lose my sleep over this minor inconvenience. But had there been someone else in my place, there sure would have been some altercation about that.

Now, this place is frequented by a fellow who happened to disagree with me about something, some time ago. This fellow , on purpose, would park right in front of my Clinic door and dramatically get down from his new bike , remove his sunglasses slowly , all the time looking at my Clinic , as if daring me to ask him to remove his motorcycle from there.

Now, who is disturbed ?? , no , not me. I keep my peace. So far so good. Most of the time I am too busy with my patients , to even notice. And when I happen to notice , I feel very sorry for that excuse of a person.

Finally, someone upstairs thought , enough is enough, let’s have some fun. One fine afternoon , this fellow gets done with his parking routine with super slowness and makes himself disappear in the Stationary Shop to do whatever. I am busy with a patient, and a trailer is backing off from the crossroads, probably after taking a wrong turn. The Trailer is a huge vehicle and fails to register the presence of the motorcycle. The Trailer backs up in the Bike. Or was it on the bike ? Either way is correct. We couldn’t see the bike , once the trailer was done backing up. It was completely under the trailer. Shouting ensued. The trailer was moved forward and the bike or whatever was left of it was retrieved from under the wheels. The bike was a total loss. Almost all of it was wrecked.

Both the parties bickered, argued , shouted at and threatened each other and what not. The matter was taken up with the local police , which ruled that the motorcycle was parked in a wrong fashion but still the Trailer driver should compensate our man. Another round of arguments over the final sum of settlement and guess what does our hero receive in the end, a paltry 5000/-rs for a demolished Rs 1,50,000/- bike. Poetic Justice ?

What could I say ? , nothing !!

I watched the whole episode with a bit of sadness.

Sad to see people get hurt because they have the wrong attitude.

But it was kind of funny too , our Hero lost the swag , thereafter !!