Welcome To My World

"If there is any kind of trouble that a human being could fall into, you would probably fall into it". That's a pretty common quote from my relatives and friends about me. I am kind of a magnet for chaos and troubles. Stuff like accidents, upturned itineraries, and unexpected incidents are pretty common with me. When I was getting married, my friend Vivek, who has been close to me for the last five years, told me that Swati's luck would probably rub on to me and my chaotic history would become stabilized. My reply was that I feared the opposite and worried about my luck rubbing onto Swati. Only future would be the judge.

So Swati and myself got married and come to the land of opportunities, USA (which by the way, I love to call as United Society of Animals). Nothing went wrong with our trip and in the first few months of our existence. And I secretly wondered if Vivek was indeed right. But then the truth came out during Swati's first visit to India. Her travel itinerary was completely botched. It started when her Lufthansa flight from Boston to Frankfurt initially refused to accommodate her and a few other passengers because the flight had reached its weight limit. In my life, I have missed flight due to various possible reasons, but this was a new one to me. A flight exceeding its weight limit!!!

Anyways, she and few of her fellow passengers were only checked in five minutes before the flight actually took-off. On reaching Frankfurt, she found that her flight from Frankfurt to Mumbai was cancelled. She had to rearrange her flight to Mumbai via Abu Dhabi. When she finally reached Mumbai, she waited for two hours before she found that her baggage is still roaming in some part of Europe as the airport authorities forgot to put her baggage in the Abu Dhabi flight. When she called me from Mumbai, she sounded a little tired and hysterical. I was like “Welcome to my world”.

So much for rubbing of her luck on me!!!