Mobile Charged

I was in Delhi airport (when it was not DIAL), old arport old amenities and in the month of May last week, tired due to the hectic travel entire day, the Sun God was at His full bloom, it was hotter than the HOT bipasha basu.

Taking a late evening flight always helps you to come back to your family and spend time with them. My flight was at 8 pm to Hyderabad. Due to God known reasons there was heavy traffic (yes air traffic too, you thought the road traffic, common its delhi baba)
Large cues were formed for the security check in and people were waiting in front of the their respective gates (only one gate was given the burden to take care of 3 flights in an interval of 10 minutes)

My flight departure was announced and we were supposed to form a line/ a cue. Due to less availability of space the cue formed was not a geometrically straight line but like a Jalebi( a circular round round round stop sweets in India)

Due to better purchasing power (they say India Shining)or the lower tariff of the mobile phone (Thanks to tele kranti) or a mix of both, no one in airport was having a mobile and not talking. The more you talk the more you require assistance for battery charging station. Luckily in mid of our serpentine cue, there was one but full with all kinds of mobile phones. There was this Kind lady in her 50”s using phone.

The empty sockets were taken over by the fresh cellphones as the person moved ahead.

Our this kind lady in mid fifty’s also kept it for recharged and she was 20 people ahead, now why I was looking at her or any reasons of the attention….

She looked like Waheeda Rehman(I am a good fan of her till now), same gracious smile, nice silk saree neatly tied.

Slowly after 20 odd minutes the cue moved ahead and I got an opportunity to recharge my handset, but Alas! I carry a blackberry and none of the socket fit in. But what I saw was a sony ericsson mobile with no takers? I thought I have seen this mobile handset (My father carries a similar model), Bingo! It’s the same which the Aunty was carrying….But where is Aunty? She already left to catch a flight. I said leave it mujhe kya?

I boarded the flight and I got the first seat (again aisle), and just before the flight was about to take off, the same aunty came and requested the air hostess about her cellphone(she at last remembered), the air hostess was kind enough to talk to her Ground staff and in next 15 minutes(the flight got delayed by 15 minutes)and it was here.

I felt so very much ashamed, that I could have helped this kind lady.

But this is how I behaved.