Messenger from God

Today morning while driving to work, it was wonderful weather and I had my windows rolled down. While most of the distance I covered without any special event when I was about to reach office, would be almost one Km away I realized something came inside the car through the open window. My first reaction was, it would be some leaf. I decided to check what was it and looked down. As I look down I see an ugly, grey about 3 inches big lizard sitting at the edge of the driving seat. I was driving at around 60 KMPH then. Whatever I am going to tell you happened really fast within a minute.



My first reaction after looking at the lizard was; well, I don't know what the first reaction was. Fraction of a second after discovering the presence of an alive lizard on my seat, only half inches away from my knee, I was thinking, if this lizard is little patient and can stay in this position for a little while I will get rid of it after I reach office and park my car there. With my seat belts tied and no scope of movement, that was the best I could come up with. But that lizard was an impatient one, without loosing any time it jumped on my knee. I felt a weird sensation flow across my entire body. I now had to get rid of her and could not wait for reaching office because now I was thinking if it falls off my leg in the car somewhere, it would be a really difficult task to get rid of it. I was hoping it stays on my leg for a moment while I get my card on the side and manage to get it off.



I managed to slow down the car and bring it at the side of the road, yet I could not just open the door because of moving traffic. I could also not let my eyes off the lizard because I had to know about its movements to get rid of it. It was moving downward on my leg while I was waiting for the signal behind to stop the flow of traffic. I was hoping to get an opportunity asap to open the door and get the lizard out because had it managed to reach my foot, the possibilities I did not want to even imagine.



At the first opportunity of opening the door I took my leg out and stamped my foot on the ground till that ugly creature got off my leg. I looked at it lying on the road, very much alive for a moment, closed the door shaken my entire body and slowly drove off.



Later when I posted this incident on my FB wall, following conversation followed:

what would you do when you are driving at 60 Kmph in traffic and an ugly lizard falls on your lap through the open window?

Akash Dongre: Thats a sign of good luck!
Gaurav Tiwari: It must be better than good since the messenger from god took the trouble of jumping inside a moving vehicle through a vertical window.
Akash Dongre: ‎:)
Amit Baranwal: curious... what did you do?
Gaurav Tiwari: I had shown tremendous courage and calmness. Slowed down the car and stopped at a corner. Let the traffic pass and wait for the signal. Let the lizard move to a position my leg so as it is easy to let it fall with little force. Opened the door, took my leg out stamped it on the ground till that lizard fell off. And then drove to office to tell the tale.
Anshu Bhatia: lizard n apka pichle janam ka koi nata hai :P
Gaurav Tripathi: so now lizards r in love with you :P
Gaurav Tiwari: ‎@GT yeah so much so that they jumping in the moving car through window.