Biker Story in Thalappakatti


I was out for lunch with my family. Of course, it was late. My wife was keep nagging about the delay in our city ride. Though I was little upset, one thing made me happy that she proposed a restaurant name for lunch which she never did before. Often ask me to take her to a restaurant not mentioning any name which would create a lot of chaos. But this time for my surprise, she asked me to take her to "Dindigul Thalappakatti Restaurant" for lunch. Since it is on my way to home in JP Nagar, I thought it would be easy for me to take my two kids and her there. I was happy because I avoided unnecessary fight and gonna get nice lunch.

I parked the car in front of the restaurant and asked wale parking guy to take over my version of BMW, Alto LXI. My wife and daughter entered into the hotel, but i was waiting for the guy to park my car safely few feets next to me. I was cursing myself that I could have done the same road side parking myself and saved few bucks. While myself and my son staring at the car, a fancy cruising bike stopped in front of me. either it could be avenger or enticer, I'm not sure. A guy nicely dressed jumped off the bike and shared a broad calm smile at us. It's anyway free, so I smiled at him back.
Straight he walked up to me and introduce himself to me. I nodded. He said "I feel embarrassed to tell you that ...". And he continued that he was cruising around the city in the bike, he was from hosur (which is 40 kilometers away from that place). He has only good enough fuel to reach Hosur. He has many friends in the city. But nobody is picking his call. So he asked me to offer a chicken biriyani in Thalappakatti. I was freaked. WHAT????. 

I asked him why your friends are not picking the call?, he said may be they are busy. I asked him whether you want me to call them from my phone?, He said he don't remember their number. I replied why don't you look at your phone and tell me. he said, his phone is switched off. Then I got pissed, I asked him "Do you want me to charge your phone for me so that you can restart your phone". He replied that he is not comfortable sharing his phone with me. It really pissed me off. I said, so you are not agreeing to any of the things I say, are you really looking for food? He said. "I'm not cheating, you offer me food here, I'll be on my way". I resisted saying that I'm not able to trust you because if you are looking for food, you would at least ask me for some food. To be frank chicken biriyani in Thalappakatti is around 400 bucks. Instead if he walk up to nearby A2B (which is 200 meters away), then he can have a wonderful mini tiffin for 60 bucks. At least he could have asked me for that. In my mind two things were going on, either it could be some stupid prank show which I hate the most. or some fraud attempt to loot money. He is a biker, his home is around 40 Kilometer away which is approximately 30-45 mins drive. I didn't see him that weak to drive 30 mins more. So i decided and said, if you are not agreeing what I say, sorry i cannot help you and walked into the restaurant with my son.

My wife asked me what was the conversation is all about. I explained the whole thing to her. She felt pity and asked me to give some money to him. I did not agree to it. because I wasn't able to trust him.
He was waiting outside for around 15 mins. Then I stopped looking at him. Yet my mind was thinking that I should have given 50 bucks and directed him to A2B. So after around 20 mins later I went out to give him some 50 bucks, but I didn't see him. Till end of the day I was keep thinking should I offer what he asked for or some money? or nor. Till today I don't have answer for that. But one thing is for sure that i acted little mean. What do you guys think? Comment below your opinion.

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