Last Saturday I had to attend a CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) event organized by our Company. As planned, all of us assembled in our office premises at the scheduled time. We had booked cabs to take all the employees to the orphanage where we were to spend time with the children there. It so happened that all the cabs were full, & I was to go on a two-wheeler with one of my colleague.
When we both started, all the cabs had already left, and they were much ahead of us. Neither me, nor my colleague knew how to reach our destination. I had the address of on a piece of paper. Like in any metro,
We crossed roads, circles, by-lanes, commercial-streets, and by-&-by reached the area where the orphanage was located. Throughout, the 45 minutes journey, we approached more nearly a dozen auto-rickshaw drivers, and all of them were always eager to help us. One even climbed out of his auto to ensure that we took the right turn at the end of the lane, as far as he could see us.
It was a nice experience to see that the auto-rickshaw drivers who are considered to be a harsh community helped us, sometimes with a smile. None of them was harsh or shouted as us, whether it was a traffic jam, or a run-way.
Both of us, me & my colleague, lost our way at the end. It took us half-an hour to cover the last one kilometer of our way. All because we could not find any auto-driver to show us the way further.
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