While all of us have had our misfortunes with Clarence and the bike, Rithik definitely pulled the shortest stick. This is the story of a rather eventful day as shared by Rithik...
" Clarence and I were on the bike heading to a site in C.V. Raman Nagar. The journey when it started didn't seem like anything special. I was riding and Clarence was navigating. At some point he missed a turn and the Maps then rerouted. We were supposed to take a flyover now and just as we hit the midpoint of the flyover, the bike died. The first question I asked Clarence was how far away we are from the site. From the top of the flyover we could see most of the city around us and Clarence turns around and points towards a part of the city behind us and tells me that's where we had to go. In that moment I realised that we had missed a turn and had to go all the way around to reach our destination. The choice was between going all the way around or just crossing over to the other side and going back. Keeping in mind the Bangalore traffic the latter seemed like the logical choice. We crossed over to the divider navigating through the traffic coming our way. Once there the actual task began. We had to lift the bike over a divider that was 2' high. It was quite hard to pick it up even between the two of us. Finally we were on the other side, heading in the right direction. Some time after that we made it to site. There was no one there except the two of us. We put up the updates on the group and Sai instructed us on how to go ahead with the demolition work. The workers arrived on site and neither me nor Clarence could communicate with them in Hindi or Kannada. We finally were able to communicate with one of the guys in Tamil. They started demolishing the marked walls and we headed out to get some materials. When we got back to site we just waited and watched while the demolition was happening. A part of the wall that had to be demolished was getting held up because of the furniture in the room. Sulu asked if the two of us could remove it and it seemed doable so we agreed. I went into the room with one of the workers, climbing over the debris, to remove a cupboard and thought Clarence would join in to help. I lifted the cupboard from one end only to realise Clarence was nowhere to be seen. He'd done plenty of heavy lifitng on a previous site visit and only came in to support us just as the cupboard nearly tipped over. All of this adventure and it wasn't even lunch time yet! The rest of the day went off without too many issues but the experience of that morning is one that I don't think I'll be able to forget easily. "
" Clarence and I were on the bike heading to a site in C.V. Raman Nagar. The journey when it started didn't seem like anything special. I was riding and Clarence was navigating. At some point he missed a turn and the Maps then rerouted. We were supposed to take a flyover now and just as we hit the midpoint of the flyover, the bike died. The first question I asked Clarence was how far away we are from the site. From the top of the flyover we could see most of the city around us and Clarence turns around and points towards a part of the city behind us and tells me that's where we had to go. In that moment I realised that we had missed a turn and had to go all the way around to reach our destination. The choice was between going all the way around or just crossing over to the other side and going back. Keeping in mind the Bangalore traffic the latter seemed like the logical choice. We crossed over to the divider navigating through the traffic coming our way. Once there the actual task began. We had to lift the bike over a divider that was 2' high. It was quite hard to pick it up even between the two of us. Finally we were on the other side, heading in the right direction. Some time after that we made it to site. There was no one there except the two of us. We put up the updates on the group and Sai instructed us on how to go ahead with the demolition work. The workers arrived on site and neither me nor Clarence could communicate with them in Hindi or Kannada. We finally were able to communicate with one of the guys in Tamil. They started demolishing the marked walls and we headed out to get some materials. When we got back to site we just waited and watched while the demolition was happening. A part of the wall that had to be demolished was getting held up because of the furniture in the room. Sulu asked if the two of us could remove it and it seemed doable so we agreed. I went into the room with one of the workers, climbing over the debris, to remove a cupboard and thought Clarence would join in to help. I lifted the cupboard from one end only to realise Clarence was nowhere to be seen. He'd done plenty of heavy lifitng on a previous site visit and only came in to support us just as the cupboard nearly tipped over. All of this adventure and it wasn't even lunch time yet! The rest of the day went off without too many issues but the experience of that morning is one that I don't think I'll be able to forget easily. "
-Mannat
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