ah!men

Last weekend we had been to Muir Woods. Muir woods, one of the few stretches of redwood trees existing in the world is a breathtakingly beautiful place. No, don’t worry. I am not writing a travelogue because I am yet to learn words so eloquent which would describe such beauty.

We were three-Saif, my colleague and friend Dhruv and I. We reached Muir woods after getting lost umpteen number of times on the freeway .Saif and me are used to getting lost and I pitied Dhruv but he bore our lack of direction sense with amazing grace.

Once we reached there, we headed for a hike along some trail called Ocean view trail. The whole trek was beautiful though there were no views of ocean when we reached the peak.

As we headed back Dhruv was attacked by a strong bout of hiccups. Every few minutes he would ask us to scare him. The idea
of shocking him by pushing him down the hill played tantalizingly inside my head, but my conscience spoiled whatever fun I could have had. Anyways, as we were climbing down we saw a group of three or four people climbing up. One of them was a girl in a very revealing outfit. She had red streaks in her hair and her dress was completely unfit for a hike. In America it’s a very common thing to see a lil of cleavage…but not on a hike...and she was showing lots of it! ;)

The two guys I had with me, true to their Indian blood went all silent as their brains switched to reptilian mode and they stared.

After they had passed us we were all silent. I remarked to Saif “If I were another guy instead of your wife, you would have made some cheapo remark now”.

So Saif grinned and asked Dhruv “item number kaisa laga?”

Dhruv casually relied “She cured me of my hiccups”.

Ah! Men…amen!