A calculated risk

It was around 4’oclock in the afternoon and I was frantically searching the net for the Bangalore International Airport Bus timings. I knew this was on the cards. I had lot of deliverables in office on that day and so I made it a point to carry my luggage to office itself. My flight was at 9:20 PM. Eventually I boarded the bus at around 6 o’clock. Volvos, I suppose, are one the best buses that have travelled on Indian roads. 

I had some work to do, a job that I needed to finish and I started working on my laptop. Not that I liked the work that I was doing, but I had to do it. I had already put my papers down, and I had to finish few of the closing activities. Times changed a lot. 15 years back, nobody would have even thought of opening a laptop while travelling on a bus. There were hardly 6 people in the bus and I just could not fathom what revenue would it generate for KSRTC.

By the time it crossed Trinity circle, it was pretty dark. Metro work was on. MG Road was looking different through the bus’s closed windows. Loads of people on the streets with backpacks coming out from offices, shopping malls around, streams of cars of different makes; Bangalore, people say is a land of opportunities and I had put my papers down. It was a calculated risk. The bus was travelling pretty fast but I guess my thoughts were changing locations faster than that. It was really a disturbing thought and I tried concentrating on my laptop.

Anyways I reached airport on time and I was waiting for the security check. I felt hungry and grabbed a sandwich and a coke. I looked at the bill, smiled and threw it on to the bin. It was not one of those company sponsored trips where I could have reimbursed it later. I could hear the boarding call for my flight.  I was going to Mumbai for a 2 day Induction program before the start of my MBA course.