Some days are just very interesting!

30th March, 2007 happened to be my last day with Conexant. As it was the last day, I had lots to do in terms of doing the paper work and saying Hi and Bye to everyone I had known for the past 4 years and 9 months stay with Conexant. As if this was not enough for the day, some thing interesting happened. We have a common parking area for cars. I came in late in the morning and I had to park my car in a zone where it had to be kept on neutral because it was located in front of other cars. After our routine lunch walk, we were going back to work through the parking area when I could not locate my car in the area where I had parked in the morning. The interesting day started. I started looking for the car but could not locate. When I finally managed to find it, it was located at 90 degrees to the original parking location. This could not have been done without the keys of the car or unless Vir Hanuman himself had done it. As the probability of the second option is almost next to none, I took a look at my pocket. Indeed the keys were still there. When I came close to my car, the stereo inside the car was playing and the drivers window was half down. The probability of the first option was also zero as the keys were there. So there had to be a third possible option of which I was not aware of. I asked the security guard how the car came there.

Vaibhav: Car yahan kaise aayi? Iski chaabi to mere pass hai.
Guard: Sir, yeh aapke car hai.
Vaibhav: Koi shak!
Guard (to his friend): Tabhi chaabi bahar nahin nikal rahi
Vaibhav: Kaunsi chaabi. Iski chaabi to mere pass hai.
Guard (finally with the whole story): Sir, hamein laga yeh Ravi Sir ki gaadi hai. Maine unse chaabi lekar isko theek se park kar diya lekin ab chaabi nahin nikal rahi.
Vaibhav (inside my mind): Lag gayi watt.......

How can a car be opened with another cars keys? It can even be started with another cars keys and moved around. Well, DAMM the car companies.

We tried getting the keys out but Fevicol ka mazboot jod tha, aise hi thode na tootega. We then went to a local Automobile market. The local mechanic (who knows everything about anything related to Automobiles) tried to get the keys out. Lekin Fevicol holds ground. He decides that the car lock needs to be opened. Hmmmmm. Now it was getting more complex. We decided to take the car to showroom before everything got opened by the mechanic bhaiya.

In the showroom, the mechanic tried to remove the key from the lock. We asked him why he was not opening the lock instead. He said that the lock is made in such a way that either the key would come out or the whole lock needs to be replaced. HIP HIP HURRAY to the mechanic bhaiya. A new car lock comes for 3.5 to 4K. After some effort the keys came out. THANK GOD for it.