PROLOGUE
It was a nice sunny sunday afternoon. The time was around 3:30 pm. We (me and my flat mates) were all set to go for lunch. We chose to go to a nearby nice restaurant for lunch named Dev's. We reached there, made ourselves comfortable and ordered our food. The food was about to be served in 5 min, but suddenly there was a twist in the story, one of my room mate -Vishal stood up and said I would take a full 'thali' today which precisely means 'unlimited food at fixed cost'. Not only that, he also suggested a restaurant 'Rajdhani' in Kalyani Nagar which fulfilled all the criterias thought of for that lunch. At that moment we didn't had slightest idea of how things could turn up. At Dev's we said we wanted some chinese soups which you don't have to offer, so we will move out of here, The attendent was definitely irritated, as he had already made an order for our food.
THE STORY
After this extraordinary idea was proposed, we accepted hesitatingly, all were hungry, the clock was already showing 3:45. We came back home to take our bikes and then we proceeded for Kalyani Nagar. When we reached Adlabs in Kalyani Nagar we climbed to second floor for Rajdhani and what we found was voilla!! the restaurant was closed. One last bartender was leaving from the restaurant at that time, conforming to us this devastating news. We said OK! we will go to a restaurant in front of Adlabs, Kalyani Veg. We took our seats in the restaurant for the second time in the day with clock now ticking to 4:10 in the afternoon. We called out for the waiter for ordering food only to hear that 'there is no lunch available, sir'. All were dying out of hunger, but a lot more was about to come.
We then took the second hard decision of the day to go to Koregaon Park for restaurant 'The Food ' . This was already our 4th restaurant for the day. And this also brought disappointment number four as this restaurant was also closed. We then took of for 'Chutneys' in Dhole Patil Road, we were very much sure that we'll not get disappointed from there. Reaching there, unfortunately, we found that the result was no different then from the previous restaurants. The attendant said, sir! at this time no lunch, you can only get 'SNAX'. But there was noone to tell us that this would be a very wise decision, meanwhile we were hell bent on getting a 'full thali'. We then looked for Karim's, to get the same response. Finallly we reached Kukoo's, where to our relief the attendant said that we can get lunch. This was not all as there were some constraints namely:
1) The restaurant was not offering 'full thali'.
2) It was a non air conditioned restaurant, which was again one of the demands of the day by Vishal, my roommate.
3) One of my flatmate-Robin suggested one more restaurant in Deccan,Panchvati which fulfilled above two criterias.
By this time we already had traversed 8 restaurants and now we were to move to Deccan as according to Robin we will definitely get a nice Gujrati 'full thali' at 'Panchvati' and he was at that time 200 percent sure about this. Clock now showing 4:55, not sure if it was still afternoon or evening had arrived! We took our third bad decision of the day and the karavan now moved towards Deccan. The results were no different at Panchvati and then the came in queue was restaurant Vaishali, then Amrapali,then ......
Clock was now showing 6:15, now this was definitely evening, we somehow convinced ourselves that it was still afternoon. The demands had to change and it did changed to ' We will eat anything, anywhere'. Our friend from Mumbai -Gaurav learnt the biggest lesson of his life-'not to forget to bring tiffin from Mumbai,when heading to Pune, specially for Lunch'. He asked in frustration 'where' is KFC?, I meekly replied it is at the mall just beside our home. He was furious and then immediately left for KFC with Vishal, the major culprit for today's lunch debacle. When the discussion was over it was around 6:30 in 'EVENING' and then Ankush suggested one tiffin center in Deccan where we could get 'SNAX', the remaining four people were now drudging towards the tiffin center. We reached there and ordered 'Chole Bhature'. I was too hungary to be satiated by only one plate of gigantic 2 Bhatures. I ordered one more, and it was the most fulfilling 'LUNCH' in days, many many days.
We reached back to 'ghar', got to bed - to wake up the next morning with a lesson at our disposal.
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