This is an incident that took place about a year back or more. We were in our car, waiting at the red light near the roundabout near Palms.Maybe it was winter, maybe Ii was drowsy, maybe it was just night. For some reason, all I remember are the flashing tail lights of cars and bored, uneventful wait. Just as the traffic stirred, a little puppy, not more than a month, came bounding onto the road from a nearby contruction site.
Complete mayhem. I drew in breath and warned vek, who was at the wheel. I'm sure many others like us noticed this completely baffled, excited puppy that went this way and that. Many hurried screeches followed. Cars jerked to a halt, moved around him, carefully avoiding his leg/neck and sped on. Obviously, no one wanted to crush the poor baby. And, yet, almost everyone knew someone else would.
A game of horror, of fun - for some, ensued.I prayed, somehow, he would make his way across the road, but, then, on the other side was the other road, with moving traffic. Why couldn't anyone do anything?
And then someone did. This fellow in a scorpio, stopped his car on the road, ( the right most lane, if you please!) got off the car, scooped this unnerved little thing and jogged across the road. No, he didn't stop there. He stood there to check if that wild thing had found his way back....as it happened it didn't. It came right back...scampering. He picked it up again and jogged some more into the bushes and only when he was sure the puppy was safely away, he jogged back, got into the car and drove away.
Surprisingly, in that rush hour traffic, not a single car honked at the unattended scorpio that was parked on the road. No yells, abuses, nothing. Traffic moved on just as before.
Tense neck muscles released.. that big guy in his big car had not only saved the puppy, he had saved each one of us who watched the entire episode.He did what each one wanted to, what each one of us knew was right but didn't have the courage to carry out! Each individual sighed with relief, for he had absolved us all of the guilt of something we didn't do. What stopped us? I often wonder. Our fear, for sure; what will others say? what if i can't get to it, in time?
One thing is for sure, each time I am sickened by the rapes and cold blooded murders in the newspapers, it's incidents like this one and seeing people stop and help accident victims on Gurgaon roads that gives me assurance - life is worth living. All is not lost.
Complete mayhem. I drew in breath and warned vek, who was at the wheel. I'm sure many others like us noticed this completely baffled, excited puppy that went this way and that. Many hurried screeches followed. Cars jerked to a halt, moved around him, carefully avoiding his leg/neck and sped on. Obviously, no one wanted to crush the poor baby. And, yet, almost everyone knew someone else would.
A game of horror, of fun - for some, ensued.I prayed, somehow, he would make his way across the road, but, then, on the other side was the other road, with moving traffic. Why couldn't anyone do anything?
And then someone did. This fellow in a scorpio, stopped his car on the road, ( the right most lane, if you please!) got off the car, scooped this unnerved little thing and jogged across the road. No, he didn't stop there. He stood there to check if that wild thing had found his way back....as it happened it didn't. It came right back...scampering. He picked it up again and jogged some more into the bushes and only when he was sure the puppy was safely away, he jogged back, got into the car and drove away.
Surprisingly, in that rush hour traffic, not a single car honked at the unattended scorpio that was parked on the road. No yells, abuses, nothing. Traffic moved on just as before.
Tense neck muscles released.. that big guy in his big car had not only saved the puppy, he had saved each one of us who watched the entire episode.He did what each one wanted to, what each one of us knew was right but didn't have the courage to carry out! Each individual sighed with relief, for he had absolved us all of the guilt of something we didn't do. What stopped us? I often wonder. Our fear, for sure; what will others say? what if i can't get to it, in time?
One thing is for sure, each time I am sickened by the rapes and cold blooded murders in the newspapers, it's incidents like this one and seeing people stop and help accident victims on Gurgaon roads that gives me assurance - life is worth living. All is not lost.
