City by the night

It was a cool and calm night...the birds chirping sweet nothings in the background. Crickets and frogs making their presence felt. The trees swaying to tune of the gentle breeze. The leaves setting themselves free from the clutches of the trees with a shudder and then peacefully descending down into the open arms of mother earth. It was nothing like the usual. The usual chaos replaced by an uncharacteristic serene tranquility. A unique calm that had descended...
CALM???
There was absolutely NOTHING calm about it.

It all started last Friday. Well, actually it started well before that. But we will not discuss the Butterfly effect and how a particular totally unrelated thing that happened in the past few days can have a bearing on the present.
Friday evenings these days are getting sad with the advent of the Friday evening video conference in our serene lives. It ensures that you have to be around in office until atleast 2030 IST which essentially means that half the evening is lost. While the night is still young at 2030 IST and could possibly end at 0500 IST, this is not always the case...sadly so! Which essentially means that you end up with one of the three
half-baked plans
hurried or spontaneous plans
sleep-at-your-home-no-plans!
And don't even bother to plot a scatter diagram for the distribution of each of these!
Last Friday was one such Friday. Option #1 hadn't happened and option #3 didn't sound too appealing. After some frantic calls and meticulously chaotic planning, we were all set to go!
A few hiccups later, we were off!
Where else but downtown! Even if you were to wake me up at 0300 and ask me whether I want to go downtown, chances are that I'd get dressed without a word being said.
We were expecting to take the trains. But we had the fortune(???) of having a car at our disposal. The car in question being a vTec Honda City. Its a beauty! So...off we were! A gal and a guy completing the entourage!
Have you ever seen a kid when his/her favorite toy is taken away? The kid invariably goes off its rockers! Well..we had a slightly different scenario at our hands. There was this kid that was given this toy(apologies for drawing an analogy between the City and a toy). And the kid went totally berserk. I was sitting in the adjacent seat. Boy, if I had any experience alighting from the moving local suburban trains in Mumbai, I would have taken the chance and bailed out. But, unfortunately I do not possess the requisite skill for the want of past experience. Hence I quietly buckled up the seat belt.Ever heard the phrase..."Tiger in the office, rabbit outside?" This was something different...This was a case of a lazing-in-the-waterhole-buffalo to a raging-bull-in-ChinaTown! TO BE CONTINUED...IN THE SAME POST!