Jinxed?????????

I've always nursed a fantasy of sitting next to a pretty woman (stranger) on a bus/train/plane and having a sensible/beautiful conversation and at the end of the journey exchanging nos and emails id and then see how things take a turn. All the 29 years of my travel, it never happened to me. There are too many reasons for it.. On the bus, the operators always make the lady sit separately from men. (in fact they have something called the ladies seat on the bus), on the train and plane I'm yet to come across anybody worth the trouble.

Now why am I saying this????? Well Saturday when I was headed to Mysore and took the state transport, since it is only 3 hours from Bangalore. My friend who is already waiting for me at the bus station head for the ticket counter and the lady at the counter says "Sir, only two tickets available and you can't sit next to each other" which was fine since it was just matter of few hours. So we buy the ticket and board the bus to see that there is a seat at the first row, which my friend decides to take, so I walk to the back of this bus and Guess what??????????? There sits a pretty lady and I get to sit next to her!!!!!! Yeah I was indeed on top of the world for I saw that my fantasy was coming true and just couldn't believe my luck.

I was wondering as to how I'm gonna break the ice and start a conversation with the lady since the bus took about 10 mins to leave I was try to adjust the vent of the air conditioner above my head and she offers her expert advice to switch on the light??? I was like "thanks but I need the air conditioner adjusted and not the lights for two reasons. One it was broad day light and two, they never switch on the main for me to use those reading lights above my head. I thank her for her advice and also let her know that they never keep the mains on for it to be controlled from our end. Now that the ice breaker session was over, I was tryin to figure out as to how to strike a conversation and I was tryin to figure out if it has to be one of those cheesy one liners or What you doing????

Well as I was wondering how to start the conversation, she kinda looks to the elderly person sitting on the next seat and says "PAPAA"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and there came my fantasy crashing down :-(!!!!!!! The entire journey was then spent in contemplation of whether to start a conversation or just forget about the entire thing.. but for sure I decided that I would blog this... coz I could just not believe the luck I have!!!!!! or say the jinx I have on my self!!!!!! Guess thatz another blog I should be writing on Jinxed, Unlucky or Lucky????? But yeah for sure that was one hell of a journey I had...coz I just couldn't stop smiling at my lady luck... :-) and still I can't stop smiling thinking of it!!!!!!!!!

Now sure, few would think, hell what is if her folks are around?????? Yeah even I thought of it but then decided, itz better that I don't strike a conversation, coz you never know what you might end up in and I was not in a mood for asking trouble... well anyways that doesn't mean that I've given up.. I'm still looking forward to that day where I get to have a pretty woman (stranger) as a co-passenger, of course this time not with folks pleaseeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!! :-)