Friday afternoon is usually supposed to be a fun time for students
because of the much awaited weekend. Who doesn’t like to have a break from
school and just enjoy a couple of days of pure laziness after all?
But for some reason, the Friday turned out to be quite scary
for our young ones. The centre has a bus that is used to drop and pick students
from various places in the city. Like every other Friday, the bus was filled
after school hours and prepped up for the day’s journey of dropping the kids
back.
Now, this Friday happened to be a rainy, dull, cold day.
Perfect day to sit back and laze. As is common with Indian roads around the
country, a little bit of rain translates into potholes and puddles of brown,
mucky water.
Lo and behold, as the bus was swerving round a street
corner, it happened to pass a puddle full of brown water, spilling most of it
on a two wheeler rider on the side. This too is a common scenario in our
country. If you try to use an umbrella or jacket to keep the rain at bay, other
means will find a way to destroy your aim eventually.
What turned nasty was the way the two wheeler rider reacted
to the entire situation. It’s not as if he wasn’t accustomed to this happening
all the time!!!
This dude, let’s call him “dude” for the sake of neutrality
turned around and flung his helmet on our windshield!!! Yes, the windshield of
a bus meant to transport special children to and fro! THIS IS REALITY. This is
what happens to the world’s innocent, time and again.
The windshield shattered to bits, it also injured the driver
in the bargain. Of course, the only bright side of this story is that none of
the children got hurt. Thank God!
While we now spend the weekend getting the windshield fixed
so that the children can be picked up on time on Monday, let’s also hope that
this NEVER happens again to our little ones.
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