Hot Pack

Yesterday evening while I was returning home from work I saw something of extreme interest. Thought I'd share it. I was in a seven seater mini taxi - This is how it looks. 


Imagine this with 20 people inside with at least 3 people hanging outside! Anyways it wasn't so bad  yesterday. It was a smooth ride from ECIL Cross Roads to Nagaram (thats where I live). A few Kilometers down on the journey two girls got in and sat next to me. One of them was holding a green hot pack. It looks something like this. 



Okie so the girls got in a sat next to me. One right next to me and the other next to her near the door. So now the interesting piece comes. The girl near the door, to my surprise opened the hot pack! Guess what was inside!! 

Nothing and whole lot of things! The hot pack was open and hollow! There weren't any steel food boxes within as you see in the picture above. In fact, there was money, a phone book, safety pins (etc), thats as much as I could peep and see. She had everything in there except food! 

Wow!! The girl used a hot pack as her hand bag! I was totally stunned. I wanted to take a picture of it and I looked at the girl and asked her name. Immediately she looked at me with mistrustful eyes so I decided not to irritate her more and left the girls in peace and got off. 

I wish I could've stayed and spoken to her but unfortunetely at the best moment I had to get off. Pity!! A hot pack as a bag!! Too much!! I wonder what are the reasons behind it. Will try and look for the girl and her hot pack today. Hope I get to talk to her. :)

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