Well, I’m a very punctual person, and I always try to plan everything, but sometimes not, uh, sites. Uh, here, I would like to talk about a time when I was late. So it’s about 2 years back when I was, uh, traveling to Delhi. And, actually, I was going for a passport appointment. Uh, so I was traveling in Delhi by a bus to reach at the office, but suddenly, I noticed that the burst speed was reduced, and it stopped for around, uh, 15 minutes. And everyone on the bus was panicked and it started, uh, asking, like, what happened. So I decided to go out and ask someone what happened, then I reached to a police officer. I went to him, and I asked him, then he explained uh, he said that there was a accident happened, uh, on a truck got a truck had an accident which carry a long wood log and all the log, all the log placed, uh, on some on road. So it is very hard to re it is very hard to remove log, and the then please call the emergency department to send some personal. Um, well, in that time, I was very furious and, like, I was a few years and frustrated because I was running out of time, but I can I cannot, you know, but I can’t, but I cannot do nothing? So I came at the I came in the woods and started playing video games to, to reduce my to reduce my frustration. I I would repeatedly remember that I knew I read newspapers for about 2 hours. And the traffic jam, uh, the traffic jam, uh, like, went up to 3 hours and after 3 hours, uh, after 3 hours, the bus started moving, and I reached the passport office late, the gatekeeper do not allow did not allow me to enter in the passport office. So I explained him all the situation, but he asked me, uh, to get a new apartment date also explaining that there is a emergency appointment date also. So I applied for that one for the that day. And after, like, I had to wait
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Well, I'm a very punctual person, and I always try to plan everything, but sometimes things don't go as planned. I'd like to talk about a time when I was late. It was about 2 years ago when I was traveling to Delhi. I had a passport appointment, and I was taking a bus to get to the office. Suddenly, the bus slowed down and stopped for about 15 minutes. Everyone on the bus was panicked and started asking what happened. I decided to go outside and ask someone what was going on. I found a police officer and asked him. He explained that there had been an accident involving a truck carrying a long log. The log had fallen onto the road, making it very difficult to remove. The police had called the emergency department to send some personnel. At that time, I was very frustrated because I was running out of time. I couldn't do anything about it, so I went back to the bus and started playing video games to try to reduce my frustration. I remember reading newspapers for about 2 hours. The traffic jam lasted for about 3 hours, and after that, the bus started moving again. I arrived at the passport office late, and the gatekeeper wouldn't let me in. I explained the situation to him, but he told me to get a new appointment. He said there were emergency appointments available, so I applied for one. I had to wait for a while, but I eventually got my passport.
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