October 28. 2008
We went to the Forum Mall today to see a movie. It was really an awesome movie. It was late by the time we were ready to leave and so we found a rickshaw that was willing to bring us back to our hotel for 100 rupees. We thought that it was a pretty good deal so we got in and away we went. We rely on the drivers to know where we are going because we really don’t know exactly how to get to the hotel. Our driver told us that he knew where to go but he didn’t. We got lost and neither of us recognized where we were exactly. I started to get nervous that we weren’t going to find our way back. We stopped a bunch of times to ask for directions but our driver was a total idiot and couldn’t follow them if he wanted to. A man had been following us and kept trying to get our driver to stop. What the heck was going on? The man and our driver started fighting. I was getting really nervous. The man kept trying to get into the rickshaw and the driver kept pushing him away. This went on for a few minutes. We could smell that the man was very drunk. He just got more and more upset. I was so afraid that he was going to attack us or something. I just prayed that we would be okay. We tried to get out but the driver and the drunk wouldn’t let us move. Finally, some men came up to the rickshaw and took the drunk guy away. I thought that Auzzie was going to lose it. She looked like she was ready to just cry her eyes out. I was afraid but I couldn’t cry. I couldn’t do anything. I just laughed. It wasn’t funny but there I was laughing. I guess that I laugh sometimes when I don’t know what else to do. I wanted to scream, but instead I laughed. I am afraid so often in India because I don’t know what’s going on and this rickshaw ride just confirms my fears. I don’t know if I will be able to ride in a rickshaw at night again.
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