Another frightful day in my life

I woke up early in the morning at 6.59 AM just a minute before my mobile alarm rang, finished my morning prayer before I rushed to get ready to go for the job. It was severe cold outside true to forecast -21 C (feels like)temperature and adding to the woes there was heavy snow falling with wind speed of 85 kmph made me to hesitate to go out of my room. I prepared myself wearing a thick jacket along with thermals; warm fleece mittens to keep the fingers protected and put on earmuffs as if I was marching to war. Somehow I stepped out and walked steadily towards the bus stop to catch the Shuttle. As I was near to the bus stop i could see two black people and hear one mumbling by looking at me. I got unnerved and no longer could walk but tried to act as if I was on phone and did not care them. Once they ensured that there was no one except me, they started approaching me and I shrank back against their direction by holding my breath. When I walked for some distance I have seen the shuttle advancing with high speed but there was no way I go back to the stop as those buggers were still chasing me. Eventually I had to go back to my room and lock inside till I was made sure that they were not in sight.

I was late to the job by 1 hour and the gas station owner growled at me for not opening it at 8 and I had to make it up by working till evening 6 by bunking the Maths class. It became 11 PM by the time I reached my room after finishing another job at Indian store; got exhausted completely especially standing for more than four hours at store. There was no one at my room by that time as my room mates have already left for their jobs in motels and it has become 4 days since I have seen them. As I was very hungry I opened the refrigerator to find nothing and then I had to cook the rice to eat with the pickles. It became 12.59 AM in my mobile when I was setting the alarm to wake up at 7AM to start another frightful day in my life.

-RAJESH

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