Rickshaw or Ferrari ??

I was to go to Indore to attend a family function recently. I had booked my ticket in a train to Bhopal. On the day, I left at general shift completion time from office with my friend when it was raining.
Somehow we had ankle deep and somewhere knee deep water opn roads. Traffic jam wasn't unprecedented.
Nothing was bizarre.
We had our dinner and left from there keeping 1 hour's time in hands knowing the well known and well tried average time of 20 mins to reach the nampalli station.
Strangely, rickshaws were scarce and those to be seen had pasengers. I requested a gal who was travelling to accomodate me so that I was to take it ahead of her point and go to the station.
We had nice chit chat in the 1 hour long journey (because of the heavy traffic jam). She hoped and prayed my reaching in time and sacrificed her actual 'U' turn point.
Thanks to her! However the real essence of the story begins here.
I could not reach the station in time and as I rushed in, the train was gone. It went crawling and speeding up infront of my eyes.
Feeling sad, I came out to give the other station Secunderabad a try.
An autorickshaw driver approached me saying he will drop me to secunderabad and I will be able to catch my train. He had a deal " if you catch the train- I get 100 Bucks. If not, I will take nothing. "

When time is of essence, money doesn't matter.


I agreed.


And here started the ferrari driver.
He took me there real fast. Roads were slippery but empty. It was thirilling to travel in that thinking "if I lose the train, all efforts go in vain."

many left and many right turs and eventually he cried out "saab- there goes your train over that bridge reaching the station and as it reaches there, we are surely gonna be there." That was true !!!!!!!

He got his 100 bucks. I got my train.
Time = money.

While travelling it reminded me of Amitesh who used to say to Riskshawwalas " Kya bhaiyaaaa!! rickshaw chala rahe hain ki ferrari chala rahe hain ?"