Sometime in Nov, 2006, day when the brand new driver of our brand new Toyota Corolla needed to refuel the car for the very first time. We both were absolutely new to the US roads and at the same time utterly panicky, somehow we managed to find a small, barely busy gas station, no actually not a gas station, it used to be a Patrol pump at that time for us.
We took the car inside, luckily an old Sardar jee was working there at that night, and we felt little comfortable seeing a desi face at the patrol pump.
We asked him to fill the tank, but he smiled back and said something which sounded like Taanki, we both did not understand and we smiled back saying what, he was now little irritated he said again “Sir Taanki”, and the clever couple understood him this time, but we did not understood why he is saying Taanki.
Ra murmured to me saying that Sardar ji’s patrol pump is probably empty and he is waiting for some Patrol tank to fill the gas station, we asked him ok when is the Taanki coming?
And this time he literally shouted on us in hindi “Sirji, patrol tanki doosari taraf hai, gaddi ghuma ke laiye”.
And this is how we got patrol in our car for the first time in this country, and this was the level of our intelligence when we arrived here … are we a level up now, Ra what do you think?
We took the car inside, luckily an old Sardar jee was working there at that night, and we felt little comfortable seeing a desi face at the patrol pump.
We asked him to fill the tank, but he smiled back and said something which sounded like Taanki, we both did not understand and we smiled back saying what, he was now little irritated he said again “Sir Taanki”, and the clever couple understood him this time, but we did not understood why he is saying Taanki.
Ra murmured to me saying that Sardar ji’s patrol pump is probably empty and he is waiting for some Patrol tank to fill the gas station, we asked him ok when is the Taanki coming?
And this time he literally shouted on us in hindi “Sirji, patrol tanki doosari taraf hai, gaddi ghuma ke laiye”.
And this is how we got patrol in our car for the first time in this country, and this was the level of our intelligence when we arrived here … are we a level up now, Ra what do you think?
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