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Real Life "Hunger Game"


It was 2.30am. Suddenly i woke up & felt hungry. I dragged myself into the kitchen & searched every corner, but there was nothing to eat. But i didn't give up. I kept searching & finally found a biscuit. Not a packet of biscuit, but a slice of biscuit. 

My hunger grew stronger & stronger. I thought “I have to order something from Swiggy”. So I picked my phone & tried to order a Maggie. “Connected without internet” my phone responded. Then I checked Wifi & yes, it was gone. “Oh Shit” that was my reaction. Then I thought “well, I have my own mobile internet. It will do the job”. 

I tried to turn on the internet & it said “No internet available”. I felt cheated. Then I went to my friend & borrowed his mobile so I could use the hotspot. I turned on his hotspot. But when I turned on my wifi my friend’s device was not visible. I tried checking again & again. Didn’t work out. Then I thought “may be I should order from my friend’s mobile itself”. 

I immediately opened Swiggy. By this time my hunger had reached its all time high. So I ordered a Burger. Then the App took me to its Payment gateway page & I decided to use Net Banking. I put my details & it asked for OTP. I looked my mobile for OTP. But network issue still persisted. So I resent OTP. Luckily, this time I got the OTP. Finally it showed “Your order is successfully placed”. I took a deep breathe & thanked god. But god had a different plan for me. 

When I looked at the delivery address section I noticed it was set to a different address. So I tried to change it, but Swiggy doesn’t have that facility. So I tried to cancel the order. A caution appeared on top “If you cancel order within 1min you will get full refund otherwise you will lose it all”. I was pretty convinced that the time may not have crossed 1min, so I cancelled it. Then I got a SMS in my mobile “You have been charged 140 for cancellation”. I was hurt. Deeply hurt. 

I observed my hunger was growing like e power x. So without a second thought I decided to order it again. I immediately changed the address & repeated the same steps in Payment gateway page. It asked for OTP. I again looked my mobile, but this time the connectivity was lost again. I tried this 5 times. All attempts failed. Then I decided to leave my room & came over the street running in front of our apartment with the hope that it might fix the connectivity issue. Thankfully it was solved. But this time I didn’t say “Thank god”. While coming into the apartment building I watched a dog sleeping in the floor. And I thought to myself may be it is ‘thank dog’ instead of ‘thank god’. 

I came to my room & waited another 35 mins for the order to arrive. Finally the delivery boy came to the door step with a parcel in his hand. It was surreal. I didn’t waste a second & opened it right there. It usually take me 8 to 10 min to eat a burger. But I ate that under 1 min. Finally I drank a glass of water & went to bed at 6am. Lying down in bed I was feeling like a survivor of a tragic incident. No food has ever made me as happy as that piece of burger did. 


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