911

911......hmmmmmmmmm......the magic number in a country of 300 Million and almost 100% of the people believing in this magic number. what happens when u get a Busy Tone on this number ????
You may not have thought this or A big question to answer.

I can tell you my story of what happens in such a situiation. Its not long ago, i moved to the Golden State of USA. I was very much happy to be in this state basically for the following reasons:
1. The temperature doesn't suck.
2. You get to hang around with lots of old buddies.
3. Their are a lots of Indian food restaurants which serves you delicious food, as if you were in India sort, unlike the restaurants in other state which will have 6~8 curries but the gravy used in them would be the same.
4. You can get many things from India as there are more frequent flyer's to this place.
to name a few.

I landed @ SJC airport(San Jose.......which is pronounced as San Hoosee) and drove to my company's guest house in the morning and i had planned to catch up a friend of mine who lived in SFO in somewhere mid way between Milpitas and SFO in the afternoon. As i was a fresh driver and don't wanted to drive in SFO downtown. I meet my good old buddy near some train station where he took me to Walmart and some India store to buy some essential things to live for a couple of weeks in the Guest House. I dropped my friend at a train station which would take him back to SFO and while returning to my town, i got to know that my Cell-phone was with him while i dropped him off @ the train station. Cell phone has become a virtual part of my body. From Phone Call.... to.... Reminders.... to..... Alarm..... to.... Time.....i use my cell phone. I can't imagine to live without my cell phone at least for 2 hrs. I was thinking like if by chance i miss the exit to my guest house how would i go back as i wasn't having cell phone to call anyone. Some how i made it to my guest house and called up my cell phone to let my frnd know that he has my cell and i would pick it up some time in the weekday. He suggested that he would send that with his office colleague the next day after office, and i can pick it up from her home at 7.30~8

The next day at around 7PM i called up his colleague and told that i would come to their home in another 30~40 minutes time. It was the start of winter season and there was a little bit of drizzling that day. The sun had gone down already and the street light were well lit with the light. I took the maps and started from my guest house. I was supposed to take a right turn in the next signal, when all of a sudden a Lexus 350 moved from the left lane into my lane. I didn't see his lane changing signal neither i realised that this car has come just few feet's from mine. i was happily seeing the maps to check whether i was on the right road to take a right turn. In the fraction of second i realised that i am moving faster than the speed needed to control myself and i pushed my brakes harder to stop. My Car instead of stopping started to skid. At the same time the Lexus guy started pressing his breaks harder and harder which was narrowing the safe distance between the cars. I pulled my legs off my brake paddle just to see how my car bangs the Lexus.

BANG..........Ultimately i hit the Lexus. My head moved forward and came back to stand still. My eyes where blank for a moment. I realised that i meet with an accident i pressed the emergency lights of my vehicle and thought of getting out of the car before some one hits my car from back. I was trying to open the car door. i couldn't open it, it has jammed. I jumped to the other side and came out of my car. The guy from Lexus came out of his car and said,
He: dude didn't you see that i was slowing down.
Me: I saw but i couldn't put the breaks as faster as i should have been to avoid an accident"
He: Can you call the cops ?
Me: I can, but i don't have a cell phone.

He pulled out his cell phone and told me that his battery is drying out and he need to call his wife also to tell about it. I suggested to call the Cops first and keep the personal business afterward. He tried the Magic Number and looked at me surprised!!! I asked him wats happening. He just gave me the cell & i heard ....peeep.....peeep.....peeep.......man is it a busy tone, i asked? He said Yes. He said i will call up my wife and then we can try this once again and started talking to his wife. I went near to my car to see how much damage has happened to it. I could see the front side part is almost broken in the middle. I wondered what might have happened to his car. There was a small dent on his car bumper. I praised the Lexus engineers for their car and started cursing the designers of Ford Focus(Car which i was driving). My mate has finished his call with his wife and came back to me and said he would try 911 once again. Because of some nervousness of what happened just few minutes back i sat on the footpath facing both the cars. In fact i was happy & thanking Lord Shiva that nothing happened to him or me. When all of a sudden an Indian guy and a girl stopped before me asking were you the person driving this Ford. I told yes & asked what do they need from me. The guy showed his hand to the corner where i was supposed to take a turn and said that VW beetle standing at the corner is ours and because of the accident the Lexus hit my car. WOW.......hehhehehehh................ i was laughing from inside, praising myself that i hit the Lexus so hard that it couldn't sustain the blow so it has offloaded something to Beetel. I was thinking for a second what if i hit the Beetel rather than Lexus. I came out of my thoughts all of a sudden and asked did they get hurt or was there any damage to their car. They said, they are safe and they is a small dent in the Beetel which i was expecting. My mate came back from his call telling there is a busy tone once again. This time he was more nervous than earlier. If i were not there, i believe he would have wept at this moment. He sat on the footpath as if he has run a marathon just now. He said that he tried some 10 times ..... i was also nervous but not because we aren't able to get thru 911. i asked the Indian guy his name.
He: XYZ
Me : were do you work
HE: some reputed Indian service based company(Which all the older ppl of my town want their kids to be in).
He: Where do i work? Do i live near the next signal(There were some couple of apartments)?
Me: i moved to CA just yesterday and now going to meet a frnd of mine. I asked him to try 911.
He: OK & he started trying.
I was thinking why the hell i am not having the cell phone. In fact i was in this situation because of the cell phone. I started talking to that girl. Are you XYZ's colleague, she said yes. i saw that she had one cell phone in her hand and asked her can i make a call to a frnd. She was happy to give her cell. I called up my SFO Buddy and explained all the situation and asked him if he can call up his colleague and ask her to come here and give me the cell. His colleague came after some 15 minutes and gave my cell back. In the mean time my mate and XYZ both enjoying the 911 busy tone. I could see clearly the frustration increasing in my mates eye. It was not frustration but helplessness what he might have been thinking off. I was feeling like he would faint in another minute or so. It was almost 1 hour by now and the same old busy tone was ringing on 911. I suggested my mate to ask his wife/frnd to go to a police station and explain about this accident(Indian style communication where in-person work more efficiently). As he was much more eager than me, he said OK and we started trying out 911 again. It was almost 2 hrs when cops came to the spot to inspect and wrote a report about the accident. They interviewed each one of us individually and then gave their visiting cards(To get the final report of accident).
Beetel & Lexus guys drove away & the Junk Ford was towed away. The Police offices asked me for a drop to my home. I said thanks as i was waiting for another frnd to pick me up.

So don't be surprised if you get a busy tone on 911 in USA. [:)]