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| That Fateful Day we touched 200kph ...25 Dec'10 |
Almost a year back .. I was in Doha,Qatar on a short vaccation visiting my parents....and all my friends from school were there too luckily.... and what dawned on 26Dec'2010 was unforgettable....it still lives in me as a memory....
It all started as a usual day .... we friends decided to go out in the evening and celebrate as it was christmas ... my very good friend NOH's parents had been to India .. so we all reached his house and had some fun .... post that we all decided to go to Wakrah beach ... a beach about 30km from Doha.. NOH told me the road was very good and it is truly a pleasure to drive .. and so we decided to go through those newly bulit roads...as soon was reached the road ....it looked as a feast to really good adrenaline rush driving.... yes you guessed it right ... we decided to give our best shot at it ...NOH asked me ; da shall we blast it .. i said of course...and then we zoomed at 200kph .... i was so thrilled .....as this was the first time i was sitting in any OBJECT that moved at that speed .... it was unbelievably cool ... though our other friend PRA was pacifying us to control our speed/adrenaline rush and drive with some common sense... as usual we ducked him down...laughed at him and asked him to grow up ... the fourth guy in the car with us ..MEEN....whose dad's car it was what we were driving ... also got into mine and NOH's mood and we were having so much fun !!!
And then we decided to hit the gas station .. and when were fillin in, an Arab guy came and asked NOH for his Driving License....and we were shocked ...wondered what his problem was ... but he seemed authoritative !!! .. and we decided to be polite to him and NOH reached for his purse ..and as expected ... he did not have it .. he had left his purse at home.....This arab guy asked us to take our car to the side and park it..And as soon as we did what he said .. he came and took away the car keys....we were hell shocked ... we thought who the hell was he to do that ...we were all so clueless as who this mystery man was....but NOH was smart enough to guess that this guy could be from the CID or some govt organization inolved with policing ...
And then we went and spoke to him who was sitting in his land cruiser ... we asked him what was our mistake...and that too we asked in such an innocent way , pretending as if nothing had happened ... he accused and scolded us for the rash/speed driving without putting the car's head lights ON....
and then it struck on us...shit ! we had not put the headlights.....and then we begged this guy saying we were sorry and so on ..... but with in a few minutes a police jeep arrived and this guy went and explained the police guy about the situation in Arabic... and none of us there knew Arabic...we were standing there as dumb heads having no clue as to what the conversation was between this police and the apparent CID....so we let things take shape....all the while were all hell scared but we were sure of one thing ...That we were in a BIG BIG MESS......so we just decided to try our best and get out of it .....then things moved pretty quick ....we were taken to police station .. and asked for all documents... and they decided to produce us in court the next day ..but we had to stay there overnight ...i mean in JAIL ....and not all ..but only NOH as he was driving.....and it really hurt me and MEEN to send him alone in ... me and MEEN thought we should get him out somehow...but we had no clue how to....That day when we returned home without our friend .. it felt so sick ... Me and MEEN did not feel like going home...we went and sat in Corniche for a long time contemplating what had happened that day ... we sure were guilty of pushing it to the edge and getting all of us in trouble .. But then , one thing was for sure ... We did had a lot of fun and the only thing we regretted was not having been able to get our friend out of the police station/jail with us...
And the next day the judge fined him and let him out ...
but what happened that day was a memory that still feels like it happened yesterday...In a day I had experienced FRIENDSHIP , FEAR , ANXIETY and many other UN-NAMED EMOTIONS... what a day it was .....but looking back it feels great to have been with my friends that day and experienced the whole thing !!!!!
I am signing off for now .... But guys, ALWAYS DRIVE SAFE....
