If you have came across or if you Know murphy’s law (Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong) hold true when I recently visited pune along with my family. Applied all the project management, Risk management practices, critical path in place, and with all the knowledge of profit maximization, Return on investment (mine), cost-profit analysis, but things still went wrong and were above our imagination.
We started our journey on 7th July-2009 and everything went smooth till we reached my cousins place. There we were supposed to scout for a TAXI which we can use for next 4-5 days; we collected the information from various mouths, with lot of constraints in place of kilometers/day, price per kilometer, blah blah we zeroed in one TAXI wala who was charging us 6.50 Rs/ Kilometer and no constraints of per day average.
We loaded the Taxi with our belongings and started on 8th jul7-2009 at 7.00 AM. After travelling few kilometers an unexpected thing happened my younger kid vomited, we took it lightly and we went to Dagduseth Temple and after that we went to my sis in law’s place to change ourselves. We again started at 8.30 am after moving some 10-15 minutes he again vomited and atleast 4 times, now this was a concern and we were not planned for it. We dropped our plan and came back to pune. Visited doctor immediately as I was worried of food poisoning and intestine infection. Doctor said its nothing to worry, might be moving sickness or because of diesel vehicle.
Now we were struck and couldn’t do anything because the places we were supposed to visit were all inaccessible by Rail route and taxi was a must. At one point of time I thought that we would have to be stationed in pune only and we will not be able to visit anywhere.
All the planning, shortest path and the entire contingency plan, backup plan went hewer, we were prepared for all the things but never thought of moving sickness as the kids are accustomed of travelling in car, flight and buses. So I though of Murphy’s law and started preparing for the next day schedule making an assumption that things will go in my favor as the date striking was 9th July-2009
We started our journey on 7th July-2009 and everything went smooth till we reached my cousins place. There we were supposed to scout for a TAXI which we can use for next 4-5 days; we collected the information from various mouths, with lot of constraints in place of kilometers/day, price per kilometer, blah blah we zeroed in one TAXI wala who was charging us 6.50 Rs/ Kilometer and no constraints of per day average.
We loaded the Taxi with our belongings and started on 8th jul7-2009 at 7.00 AM. After travelling few kilometers an unexpected thing happened my younger kid vomited, we took it lightly and we went to Dagduseth Temple and after that we went to my sis in law’s place to change ourselves. We again started at 8.30 am after moving some 10-15 minutes he again vomited and atleast 4 times, now this was a concern and we were not planned for it. We dropped our plan and came back to pune. Visited doctor immediately as I was worried of food poisoning and intestine infection. Doctor said its nothing to worry, might be moving sickness or because of diesel vehicle.
Now we were struck and couldn’t do anything because the places we were supposed to visit were all inaccessible by Rail route and taxi was a must. At one point of time I thought that we would have to be stationed in pune only and we will not be able to visit anywhere.
All the planning, shortest path and the entire contingency plan, backup plan went hewer, we were prepared for all the things but never thought of moving sickness as the kids are accustomed of travelling in car, flight and buses. So I though of Murphy’s law and started preparing for the next day schedule making an assumption that things will go in my favor as the date striking was 9th July-2009
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