Exploring Commercial Market Rawalpindi with a stranger. PART ONE, TWO

 Hey peeps!

Have you ever experienced travelling in metro? Well, you might have used this bus service in your everyday life. Well metro is very economical service but it can be very inglorious if you will choose to travel by metro in rush hours. Hence, here's a free advise to you guys never avail this service between 4-6 in the evening otherwise it would be very mortifying. So, the story begins from one fine day after attending classes me and my friends were sitting peacefully in cafeteria of our university and were deciding what to eat? Suddenly a mind-blowing thought came in to Maria's mind and she said let’s go somewhere and try some street food. As, all of us were bored of eating from university cafes. Me and Wajiha agreed to Maria because loitering and exploring is our hobby, I guess. We finally decide to go to Commercial Market Rawalpindi to devour GOL GAPPAY, FRIES, GAJRELA, and other items that we like. 

So, the journey begins by booking a cab from our university's drop lane to P.IM.S metro bus station. The goofy us didn't know the exact stop for our drop off. So, we asked an aunty that where should we get off for commercial market? Fortunately, or unfortunately, she said, I am also going towards commercial, I will guide you guys. We have to get down on Rehmanabad Station. Metro stops on the terminal for a very short interval, and making way to get down from bus is a huge job when aunties do not like to move an inch like they are sticked by some glue on the place where they are standing. The staff of metro scream like hell and beg aunties to make a way for those who want to leave and who want to get in; but the ladies awwwwwwww literally they act like they are deaf.

Now, it was our time to leave and my friends were calling my name loudly and asking me to make a way so we can get off on time. Somehow, very difficulty we manage to escape. The aunty told us the whole way to market and we understood that. We thought aunty will leave us after guiding but actually she was leading us." Come this way, we should use lift, now we have to cross the road, after entering into this street we will make turn left" and so on.............. we were like okay aunty now we can go on our own. But she was like my hostle is on the same way lets go together that was quite strange for us. We were not expecting this to happen. Me and Maria were following aunty and Wajiha. As, Wajiha had found her best friend, they were sharing there bio data and were talking like they know each other for decades. And we were like WAJHIA PLEASE SAY GOOD BYE TO AUNTY. Because we have to do fun in our own way and presence of aunty was restricting us from doing that. 

We had already told aunty that we are here to try some street food. She asked us what do you want to eat, Maria said, "Gol Gappy". She led us towards a stall and we ordered 3 plates and the Gol Gappys were very good. We left that stall and were roaming around the market where the aroma of street food was attracting us and the vibe was so good. Stalls of fresh fries, hot bun kababs, crunchy and spicy pakoras, shawarmas, Pakistan famous anddy wala buger, sweetest garama garam Gajrela and other delicious items were making the environment so good. But the whole vibe got destroyed when a beggar aunty came and says " AYE DE NAH ALLAH KY NAAM PE, TERE LAMBE ZINDAGI HO." This is the most disturbing thing when you are hanging out and trying to fresh your mind. Like please somebody tell this aunty I am done with this life, "NAHI CHEYE MERE KO LAMBI ZINDAGI BHAI, JO HAI  AP BSS WO SAKON SE JENE DO MUJHE, ALLAH APKO BHI KHUS RAKHEN."  

The stranger aunty was still leading us; she had taken us to a very high-profile restaurant. We were resisting to go in there as our empty pockets  reminds us our standard. The poor us were looking at each other with a sad smile because we only had 5-5 hundred rupees with us from which we had to eat street food that is not much expensive. We were communicating to each other with eyes and facial expressions only. Then we finally decided to tell this aunty that we can't afford food from this restaurant.  She said don't worry you guys are like my own daughters I will pay the bill.  We were feeling very ashamed and shy because we were not expecting this to happen. Then she ordered chicken wings and mineral water. We ate that and left the restaurant. 

TO BE CONTINUED........................

Exploring Commercial Market Rawalpindi with a stranger. PART Two

  HEY!

So I was telling that never use metro bus service in peak hours and the second most important advise was always ask metro staff for the information related to stations. NEVER I REPEAT NEVER, ask any stranger to guide you if you do not want your fun to be ruined. Well, after eating chicken wings we left that restaurant with a huge guilt in our hearts. the sun had set, it was getting dark and till now we just had tried only gol ghappy. The aunty was offering us again and again to come to her hostel and we were like please let us go now. even though she was such a sweet and nice lady but she was not understanding our situation. She was insisting so much that we agreed to go with her. 

When we entered the hostel it was more like a jail. I too use to live in hostel when I saw the room she was living in I said ALHAMDULILLAH in my heart for the hostel I was living in. Trust me it was a very small room just like a cell where that aunty was living with another roommate. No sitting area, no proper washrooms, I must say there will be no hostel worse than that. Now after fulfilling auntie's this wish we were expecting to run from this horrible place but as the aunty was so hospitable she offered us tea. We looked at each other and then give aunty an expression please let us go now. We were here for an adventure and thanks to you we had a lot but please aunty now give us permission to leave. Then we left the hostel but still we were craving for some thing delicious to eat.

As the night was falling and it was getting colder and the fumes from the food stalls were making the environment superb. The surroundings were demanding us to eat something hot and delicious we decided to eat gajrela. It is one of the most tasty sweets of winter. It is prepared by cooking squashed carrots with a combination of ghee, sugar, milk and stout nuts. It is additionally adorned with a layer of slashed cashews, nuts and khoya. We stopped by a shop because that Gajrela had attracted us so much so we cant stop ourselves and asked for the price. Uncle said sold for Rs 900 for each kilogram. We were like " ARE YOU COMEDY ME." We can have this same gajrela free of cost in our homes and we do not like to eat it and it remains in our fridge for months. You think we will spend 900 on this? We left that shop and entered in another bakery and asked them for price of Gajrela they told us same price. Then we left that shop and decided to go back to the first vendor as his gajrela was looking much delicious. We came back and asked him for just one bowl it was of 200 rupees. But trust me it was worth it so yummy, heavy and delicious that satisfied our hearts. 

After walking some time I decided to buy Pakoras to change the taste of mouth. As, I bought them a whole group of child beggars surrounded me to give them money. Me and Maria just ate only one pakora; children ere looking at us with such faces that we were not able to eat. I said bruhssss I don't have money go enjoy these fresh hot snacks and let us live. At this level we decided to go back home/hostels but before leaving we should have a cup of tea from the world famous QUETTA HOTEL. Pathan uncles were so welcoming they directed us to table. As the day was not ours so a very unpleasant smell say hello to our noses and 3 of us felt like vomit. We immediately left that hotel and go straight towards metro to return back to our hostels.

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