We can’t choose whom we fall in love with, not even if they live in Navi Mumbai. So if you’re one of the peeps who’s fallen in love with someone who lives a Thane Creek away from you, be prepared for all of the consequences. It’s going to be a long and bumpy journey, much like Vashi bridge but it’s totally worth it.
Even though the distance drives you crazy sometimes.
1. You’ve paid the toll so many times that they can build Vashi bridge 3 times over with just your share.
2. The most fights between you and your partner are over the fact that he thinks either of these things are true:
a) Navi Mumbai is a part of Mumbai
b) Navi Mumbai is better than Mumbai
3. When you ask him to go on a date, you end up eating in a place called Rude Lounge, which actually has a mascot named, Rude Dude.
4. He acts like going to Town is like going into a battlefield
5. But going to Lonavala is second nature, because it’s right there.
6. Their idea of traffic is a 15 minute hold up, whereas yours is bumper to bumper traffic that you’re stuck in for 3 hours.
7. He compares Palm Beach Road to Marine drive and Sagar Vihar to Nariman Point. #KillSelf
8. Going to meet him is like planning a picnic: full tank of fuel, some food for the road and the right playlist that lasts you the entire journey.
9. You never have mutual friends because you live on the other ends of the world.
10. But for some reason all the Navi Mumbai peeps know each other, even if one lives in Vashi while the other lives in Kharghar.
11. Even if you break up, you don’t have to worry about running into each other, because there is no way in hell he’ll brave peak hour traffic and come for a concert in Mahalaxmi.
12. When you tell him, ‘Mumbai has the nightlife we want, so let’s go clubbing there’. He says, ‘Navi Mumbai has the cheaper offers’.
13. He blames distance for every date he’s late to because you know Navi Mumbai is so damn far.
14. Eventually you get used to the peace in New Bombay and start going over the bridge more often than not, out of your own choice.
15. And then you become something you’ve only heard about, ‘A Mumbaikar who has a special connection with Navi Mumbai’.
And you owe it all to him.Â