Midnight Fiasco

Getting into silly fiasco have proven to be more of a norm than an exception for the Brahma family of Burlington, New Jersey. And they  often surface at the oddest of places and at the oddest of times.  Such an incident occurred at the local multiplex theatre when on a Friday night the we (the Brahmas') decided to catch late night show of an Indian movie.

For last several years we have been living in Burlington, New Jersey -- which has such a sizeable Indian population that the local Regal theatre can afford to run regular Indian films on the screen. I am not personally a big fan of Indian movies, but my wife Malabika is definitely a big Salman Khan fan and she would spare no one in the family when a movie starring Salman Khan is released. The rest of the poor family have little choice but get dragged into the theatre.

This fiasco occurred when "Ek Tha Tiger" - starring Salman Bhai and Katrina Kaif was released. I would not dare my bliss by writing review on any movie starring Salman but did definitely felt very fresh and relaxed after catching a much needed nap at the theatre while my wife was enjoying every bit of the thrill, suspense and romance the movie had to offer. Our youngest son (Jeehan 5 yrs at that time) was still sound asleep when the movie finally ended past 1AM and I had to carry him to the car.

My wife stepped into the driver's seat and my daughter got into the front passenger seat. I opened the driver side rear seat and placed my son in the car seat and closed the door and as I was proceeding to the other side of the car -- my wife took off with the car thinking that I had already boarded. The music was on and she could not hear my shout --- "Hey stop you are leaving me behind".

Then I started running after the car which had already accelerated and my wife is a firm believer in putting good use to the car's feature of reaching 0-60 mph in 6 seconds.

As I was running behind the speeding car shouting "Hey stop stop you are leaving me behind " , I saw a curious police officer (his patrol car parked in front of the movie theatre) . He approached me with a grin and asked "What up Sir. You seem to be having a problem here ?"

I said -- "Sure officer. My wife just left me behind and can't even call her. My phone is dead -- I had let my son play that Angry Bird app which drained all my battery."

Officer -- "You sure do have a problem. Are you sure your wife really wants you back ?"

I said -- "Well. I am sure she does. If you wanna verify -- why don't you give me a ride ?"

The officer flashed a wide grin and said -- "Sure do hop in."

So the police car turned the red lights and siren on and we were soon cruising down the road chasing my family in the family car.

Soon we caught up with my wife. And you should have seen my wife's face when she suddenly saw me emerging out of the cop car. 

Till then she hadn't realized that I was left behind.

The officer flashed a wide smile and warned my wife -- "Next time I will ticket you for leaving your hubby behind".