Wodge of Paragons

Chapter 2 - Drop me by the inn

After two hours of driving through a lonely, dry, and cracked road, Pavebee entered something that looked like it was the main city as some old shops appeared that were of fruits and vegetables, clothes, ration, etc. Workmenn was just looking through the city grounds when suddenly Pavebee said, "There's not much to look around here, Mr. Workmenn, this place has only what's really necessary, nothing additional." To this, Workmenn sat back in his seat and stopped looking here and there. After 20 minutes of more driving, Pavebee dropped him by an inn, at least what Pavebee mentioned as an inn, it rather looked like a shabby, broken, and hatched big hut from outside but, because Pavebee said it was one of the best, Workmenn never spoke a word as he was new here.

He got off the car, Pavebee said, "You can carry on from here, my work is done" and left Workmenn standing there at the side of the road. Hesitatingly and feeling weird, Workmenn entered the inn's door, actually inn's old, cranked door. When he entered there, it looked dusty and men who were there had big popping tummies saying Hello mate from within the tshirt. 

In his town, when they went to an inn, there was a pleasant ambience, somebody would be there to welcome the guests arriving and offer them tasty imported toffees in a plate. This one had a distinct smell coming when entered, leave the toffees, there was not even anybody at the door to welcome him. Only one sign board stating the name of the inn, actually nothing good than the name of the inn, "The Paradise." When Workmenn reached the reception, thankfully, there was some old, obese guy there, who asked him directly, "Do you want a room?" To this, Workmenn replied, "Yes, I would like a double bed room for a few days." To this that guy replied, "Stay as many days you want, nobody really cares and nobody is coming to disturb you." To this Workmenn thought, How rude! When he got asked to do payment, he offered his card for that, to that the guy said, "We don't accept cards, please pay in cash." Surprised by such a response, Workmenn said, "But, I don't have any cash, it's only card or digital payment. Is there any ATM nearby? Then, I'll get some cash from there." To this that reception guy replied, "Yes, there's an ATM 5 kms. from here, towards the west." To this, Workmenn was like, "Woah! Are you serious, there is no ATM in the 5 kms. radius!" To this the guy gave him an irritated look, and replied, "This is Taciturn, Mr.ummm Workmenn."

Listening to that, Workmenn got out of the inn, to find any cab but, he couldn't find any again. There was one guest who had checked out of inn and was loading his luggage in his car, Workmenn thought, atleast I can give a try. He approached the guest and asked him if he was going towards the west, to which the guy replied Yes. Workmenn asked if he could drop him on the way to the ATM, to which the guy replied, "Fine, will do." As he was the only person travelling, he didn't mind giving a lift to Workmenn. They both got seated in the car and the guy dropped him to the ATM far away from that inn. To Workmenn's surprise, there was nothing around the ATM, and to mention, something like a broken, shattered glass structure, which they called an ATM. But, Workmenn was in need of cash so, he went there and took out some bucks. Then, he thought, what if he needed more cash later so, swiped again to collect more cash, To his utter surprise, the ATM showed "No Cash" on the screen. To which, he made a frustrating gesture and came out cursing the ATM. He met an old man, crossing the street towards the ATM, to which, Workmenn said to him, "Sir, there is no cash in the ATM." To which the old man replied, "Oh! So you mean to say, there was some cash in ATM today." Workmenn couldn't understand and said, "What do you mean, sir!." To which the old feeble man replied, "Don't worry my child, I'm here, just to check my account balance. What I meant was, usually this ATM never has any cash in it, I'm surprised that it had cash today." Workmenn saw that man with wide open eyes.

Then that old man went into the ATM and Workmenn went to the side of the road to look for somebody to give him lift, he also started walking by himself. Around 10 minutes later, a car stopped in front of Workmenn, to which Workmenn got a little astonished. An old man popped out his neck out of the window, to his surprise it was the same old man he met at the ATM. He asked Workmenn, if he was going towards the east and he needed lift. To which, Workmenn rushed to his car and replied, "Yes, please, if you could drop me by The Paradise inn." To which the guy replied, "Fine, then, I'll drop you at the inn, I'm going that way only." And Workmenn sat in his car. The old man dropped him by the inn, to which Workmenn showed his gratitude by saying Thank you.

Workmenn went in, paid the receptionist for a room, took the keys and waited for somebody to pick up his luggage for him. But, to his surprise nobody came for that, normally it did, anywhere he went but, to his surprise, here it wasn't the same. So, he just picked up his stuff and climbed up the stairs to reach for his room. Around 10 stairs later came the first floor, where his room was, Room no. 18, he unlocked the door and went in the room to see a dusty, rusty old room with pretty old furniture to stay in. He was a man who could understand things quite quickly, till now he had understood that, nothing in this town is new, modified or upto date. Everything is, old, broken and manageable.

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