Thursday, January 1, 2009

The Mumbai Kadubari Factory

It's all about my friend and his adventure:

My dear friend goes to Mumbai on a business trip and gets to stay in a pretty new hotel. One evening, he tells the autowallah to take him to the hotel, and the autowallah doesn't know the place. So, he gives directions and when they reached the hotel, he asked the auto driver if there's any other common landmark to get to the hotel. "If you say kadubaari ke saamne [meaning: near kadubaari]... everyone will know " said the auto driver. 

The next evening again, another autowallah doesn't know the hotel - so, he says kadubaari ke saamne - the autowallah goes to a few others standing nearby, they have an autowallah conference, and he comes back with a smile saying he'll take them - and took them to the correct place.

Now, this dude is curious to know about this 'kadubaari' [I bet you are too...]- asks around and doesn't get a sure answer. The day they were to move out of that hotel, lady luck smiles on him. He finds the same autowallah who gave him this kadubaari tip. The moment he gets in the auto, he asks "Bhaiyya, yeh kadubaari kya hai?" The autowallah signals him to wait, drives for a short distance and stops. He points to a building in the distance and....

Update: here's the version update from the dude himself!!

autowallah: "uthar dhekiyee.. oh compound wall hai naa... oh factory hai"
my friend: bhaiya kadubari ek factory hai???
autowallah: haa.. haaa... isko bolega cadbury... CADBURY!... yeh chocolate hai naa.. ooh banayega uthar... bahuth famous hai"
my friend: !!????!!!

Can you guess what that was? ... the autowallah says "Woh Cadbury factory hai! Chocolate factory........." :P

I found this story so funny, I still laugh thinking about it.  On top of it, he says "can you imagine what those autowallahs must of thought of me - fellow works in an IT company and doesn't even know to say Cadbury! :)

Hope you had a good laugh there! 

Disclaimer: If I got any of that Hindi wrong, please leave the correct message in a comment.