Had a bad day !!!!
I was out for lunch. I remembered that I had to go to Nepal Finance, Kamaladi to get the certificates of shares my dad and mum had won. The share numbers were 20 each. I reached Nepal Finance, which was by the side of main road. I saw no parking areas near and I had a short task which would hardly take 5 minutes. I didn’t thought that those 5 minutes would be proved such expensive. I placed my bike in a corner of the road and headed inside the finance company. There I had to wait for a couple of minutes until a customer was done with his task. But I realized he had a lot of certificates to take and I requested him to give 2 minutes for my task and he agreed. I submitted the photocopies of citizenships of my mum and dad. The officer insisted that she needed a copy of my ID as well. I came out to make a photocopy of my driving licence. When I went down to the road, I found there were some people were talking about traffic police taking their bikes in truck. To my dissapointment, I couldn’t find my bike there. Gosh, what a bad day. 5 minutes had never been that unlucky to me. I realized my bike was in the truck, roaming around the city.
I was somewhat angry with the traffic police, somewhat with the finance company for not having a parking place and somewhat with myself, for I should have anticipated that thing to happen. Nevertheless, there was no use thinking of it and I moved in search of photocopy centre. As expected, there was no electricity in that area. I had no bike to find some other places and no time to walk in search of other photocopies centres. Dissapointed, I returned back. I requested the officer in the finance company to allow me take the certificates without submitting a copy of my ID but she denied. I could understand that she was bound by the company policy and she well understood what situation I was in. She kind of felt pity on me because of what has just happened and forwarded me to her senior. I requested him showing the original citizenship cards of my parents. He agreed to give the certificate and I returned back happy. I called Ligaj expecting him to come to pick me up. But later I realized that I was wasting his time. I told, I’ll come by foot.
On the way, many things kept playing in my mind. Was that my mistake? Was that the mistake of the finance company? Was the traffic office being very rude at me? I always used to think that rules are rules and they should apply to all. As a matter of fact, parking in road was against the rule and I deserved punishment. Now, my concern is, would these make the traffic system of Ktm better? Are they really trying hard to make things better? Or was that theirs easy way to make money? The other thing is, am I to be sure that the bike was taken by the traffic, or was it stolen?
