It was a dark night illuminated by only some streetlights. I was helping my friend move into a new apartment in Noida sector 62 whole evening and now it was around midnight. He asked me to stay for the night but it was my office time as I usually follow the nocturnal schedule. Usually the autos to 12-22 chauraha can be easily found in daytime but very few of them do the night duty. After half an hour of wait I frantically started asking for lift from practically anything moving on the road. A chota hathi came to my rescue. I sat next to the driver. He was very much about my age, color and height. He had a little less fat accumulation than me and was smoking a bidi . His face was heavily scarred as if he had failed miserably every time he went on to shave. I was busy analyzing his anatomy when he said, "Its not safe to ask for lift at such ungodly hour". "I am not a girl to be worried about", I was quick to reply. He was unreadable from his expressions as there we...