A stroll in the night

Time: 11:20
Place: Calicut, KSRTC bus stand.

I was supposed to pick up mema(my aunt), from the KSRTC bus stand today. Even though I am from Calicut, I have never really ventured into the dark secrets of this place in my past 14 odd years at this place. I cant boast of a solid night life at this place, this being my reason for not hanging out much into the night. But today I did realise that there is a life after midnight at this place. A life, which the society would term anti social, a life of prostitution.

I have never really met or in fact seen a hooker work, I have not had any contact with hookers so far in my life. I am proud of that fact.

I recently had vouched to reduce the number of cigarettes I inhale, and i believe I was doing a damn fine job at it. But today though, I had to wait for my aunt for a while before her bus arrived. I considered the wait as the right opportunity for me to get one of those deadly rolls, just to pass of some time. I was blowing out the smoke, when I noticed a lady in Salwar stroll by ever so nonchalantly. This definitely quipped my curiosity. You do not find lonely ladies walk by at this hour, with a look of owning everything around. She came stood by me, and couple of gazes in her direction confirmed my suspicion that she was one of those night creatures, whose day began when ours ended. I really was not interested in what was about to begin, and quickly put out my ever so precious cigarette and walked over to the other side of the road. I clearly did not want to miss what was about to happen you see. How the seductress became the seduced?

I cant believe the number of guys who struck up conversation with her, it clearly was pure business talk I believe. Suddenly I heard a female voice disturbing the calmness of the night, with abuses that I myself find hard to use in broad day light. Clearly, they could not finalise on the going rate. I was standing with a bunch of rickshaw guys, and they were trying to shoo the disturbance away. It was clear that they did not want such unsolicited behaviour in their backyard. I then left my look out point to enquire the bus timing, but in vain. Thus deciding to witness some more of the commotion outside. I left my look out point and found a place right opposite to our unwanted guests. By this time, she had made few more male friends and the intimacy had reached such levels in the span of 5 minutes that she was sharing cigarettes with the prospective partner. Unfortunately the deal did not go through, for she pushed everyone aside.

It is at this point that she started moving from her perch, and where to? Towards me. That was certainly the last thing I wanted on this day. Having a conversation with a hooker. Even though I am very strict about my policy of "No sex for money", i would not mind talking or even flirting with a real hot babe, whom society might not approve off. But the thing coming in my direction was way below abysmal. I clearly got the hint that the time has come for me to bail off. Off I went in the direction of the bus stand, and thankfully the bus arrived at about the same time. I greeted mema and carried her luggage to our car. On our way back, I turned around to see if our friendly neighbour was around. Luckily, she was nowhere to be seem.