This Saturday I went to meet my school friends. I often meet M and meet S a little less often but this time it was D for whom we were meeting. D works in Maruti and is nowadays posted in Indore. The plan - after all considerations - was finally made and it was to visit a night club (or disc as we call it) in Gurgaon. Only S lives in Gurgaon while the others live in Delhi, and still we went to Gurgaon because S said that in Delhi all night clubs have only couple entry while in Gurgaon stag entry is allowed.
I and M reached S's hostel room (S is studying in MDI) at around 7; D was already there. S was preparing a presentation. We asked him to close it and go out but he said he needed to finish it tonight as he was going out of town in the early hours of the next day. We did a bit of forcing but he didn't budge and he said he would meet us in couple of hours. As we (I, M and D) went towards M's car we found that he had locked the car and the keys were inside. A nice start for the evening. He managed to get the doors opened and finally we set out.
We reached Metropolitan mall and parked the car. Then we went inside the mall and started our search for a disc that would allow stag entries. The first supposed disc we went to didn't seem like a disc. Next we went to another disc in the same mall and he said for stag entries we need to pay Rs 500 per person as entry fees. We went inside, had a look at the disc and came out as we didn't like it.
We then went to Sahara mall. It had 3 discs. We enquired there. 2 of the discs refused straight away while the third one said we would have to pay Rs 1000 per person as cover charges.
Next stop Mojo at DT Mall. Same old story - initially no stag entry but after a little talk Rs 1000 per person as cover charge.
To hell with night clubs who have banned stag entry - A general feeling among the three of us. But D was still eager to hit the dance floor. I and M are a complete no-no when it comes to dance but we had still agreed for the program as the main agenda was meeting with friends. But now it was too much for me - so for me it was "No disc tonight".
Finally we decided to go to TGIF and have something to eat and drink. We ordered the food and drinks. D was still thinking of ways to get to the disc while I and M had dropped the idea. Just after the starters were served S joined us. We spend some 2 hours at TGIF and it was the best time of the entire evening. We had non-stop laughs, spoke about the good old days and pulled each others legs. We had a lot of fun with the BBQ sauce which no one liked and the sauce kept on changing it's seat moving from plate to plate but not being eaten. The wonderful time ended with a wonderful bill but we didn't mind. Only thing D said was "Rs 1000 cover charges would have been a better option". And as we came out he said he won't be comming to TGIF again.
S's cab would leave at 1:30 AM and it was 12. We had another 1.5 hours to spend. The others wanted to go to disc but I said I won't go. After much talk they went towards the other mall where the disc was while I sat outside TGIF. They returned without actually going to the disc. We took the car from parking and decided to go to Sahara mall and try some coffee at any open outlet. There was no open outlet. We had a small walk and then sat outside Sahara mall. D and S started playing with a 500ml pet bottle while M and I sat there. Outside the mall at the wee hours of night this was probably the best thing to do - isn't it? Don't bother to answer that. Well there were other things to watch as well which I wouldn't mention here.
At around 1:30 we dropped S at his college gate and then proceeded towards my home. We had decided to spend the night there and go for a movie the next day. We also had to find a parking place for D on the way so that he doesn't have to ride the bike in the winter night. We parked the bike as New Delhi railway station. The parking guy said that parking was open till 12 noon and then would reopen on 27th. So we had to get the bike before 12 noon. D and M said that if we go to sleep we would not be able to wake up before noon and so his bike would be stuck. So we decided not to go home and see Delhi night life. And the only place we knew that would be open at night was Comesum at Nizamuddin railway station. We went there. The place was crowded for this time in the night and it was good crowd with a mix of everything. There were couples, girls in all sorts of outfits, big and small groups, people waiting for trains and even a group of gays. We had a cup of coffee there and then started playing. We had our three cups and three stirrers. The game was to toss the stirrer from the edge of the table to our respective cups. Putting the stirrers in other's cups would mean negative points. It was fun being child again and we had loads of fun. M won the match while D managed to get negative score and I was stuck at zero. Then D had another game in mind. He folded a stirrer multiple times to decrease its surface area; then he inverted all the 3 cups and covered the stirrer with one cup. Then he started moving the cups randomly and in the end asked M which cup had the stirrer (something similar to the ones seen in Bollywood movies). That continued for sometime when one of the waiters came and asked us to stop as it didn't look good. But we continued it for some more time.
Finally we decided to head home. We took the car and they dropped me at my place. Then they drove towards the railway station. On the way they decided to catch some sleep so they parked the car on the side and slept in car for an hour or so. Then they went to the station, took D's bike and headed home.
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