Scooties, Spirits & Slightly Bad Decisions

This one’s straight outta a slice-of-life manga 🍜✨

Started off chill — went to Majnu Ka Tila with someone (👀 yes someone), had good vibes, cute cafés, and that subtle excitement of the “hmm what are we?” zone. Fast forward a few days — I’m in Banaras again. Skipped Kashi Vishwanath this time (been there, done that 🙃), plus my friends were trying to sneak in with VIP passes (bruh no, I can’t vibe with God through the VIP gate 🚫😅).

Instead, me and Om went full side-quest mode: trying to find this haunted palace I’d missed last time. 🏰👻 Plot twist: the palace is sealed due to “long-term maintenance” aka “yeh band hai bhai.”

So we ditched ghosts for scooties 🛵 and temple runs. Hit up the Japanese temple (SO calm, literally Ghibli energy 🍃) and the Swarved Mahamandir (crazy underrated, 11/10 recommend ✨).

Evening came. So did traffic hell. Panic move: parked the scooties somewhere. Then… forgot where. Cue: “Dude where’s my scooty?” montage. Found them eventually. Yay. 🎉

But chaos wasn’t done. Turns out, we returned the wrong helmets to the wrong scooty agency 😩 So yeah — midnight helmet exchange arc. Roaming streets like lost warriors with mismatched headgear 🪖🌙

Finally hopped on night buses back, absolutely wiped. Then my phone rang… Saini calling. And what followed? A twist darker than the haunted palace. But that’s for the next blog post.

👉 To be continued…