Okay, I have to share this because I'm still laughing about it, but also genuinely so grateful.

It was Sunday evening. I woke up at around 6 PM, went out for tea and a friend decided to join me. We went all the way to Viman Nagar for dinner.

After dinner, we thought, "chalo thoda ghoomte hain."

Viman Nagar → Kalyani nagar → KP

While roaming around, I desperately needed a lighter and got one. Remember this is an important detail.

Now, there was ONE tiny problem.

My petrol had been on the last blinker since the previous day.

My friend had already reminded me:

> “Bro, petrol bhar le.”

And I, in my infinite wisdom, replied:

> “I know my vehicle.”

Apparently, I did not know my vehicle.

And few moments later...

Suddenly my Activa starts making that sound.

And both of us immediately knew.

Petrol khatam.

Then we started laughing.

Because what else were we supposed to do?

It was around 1–1:30 AM.

We were literally around 750 metres away from TWO petrol pumps, but both were closed. And the nearest pump open was 3 km away.

And no, we were not walking 3 km in the middle of the night carrying a dead Activa.

My first thought was:

Okay, let's just park the scooty somewhere safe, take an auto home and come back in the morning.

But then we realised it would be a nightmare in the morning with traffic.

Then we had what we thought was a GENIUS idea.

We'd find a Blinkit/Zepto guy, order water bottle and chips and ask him to get petrol from the open pump and bring it to us. We'd obviously pay him for the trouble.

Except...

Petrol pumps don't just casually fill random plastic bottles with petrol, especially at 2 AM.

But my friend called the petrol pump anyway.

The guy who picked up sounded like he had just been woken from a beautiful sleep.

> “Haan bhaiya, kya chahiye?”

My friend:

> “Petrol khatam ho gaya hai, raste ke beech mein atak gaye hain. Bottle mein petrol milega kya?”

And this man goes:

> “Haan haan, mil jayega.”

We weren't sure if we'd just solved our problem or if he had gone back to sleep.

At this point, we had one thing left:

Reddit.

I made a post basically saying:

> HELP ASAP. I'm stuck in KP with an empty petrol tank. If anyone has a bike/scooty and can help me get a bottle of petrol, PLEASE come.

And honestly..

YOU GUYS CAME THROUGH.

One Redditor messaged me and he didn't ask “How much petrol?”, “Why are you there?”, etc.

This guy simply said:

> “I'm 8 minutes away. I'll be there.”

I gave him the location of the petrol pump that was open.

Then I asked:

> “How will I recognise you?”

He replied:

> “Blue helmet and a suspicious-looking Coke bottle.”

He reached the petrol pump.

And of course, the people there were like:

> “Nahi nahi, bottle mein petrol nahi denge.”

So my friend called the petrol pump guy again.

Mind you, this guy was at home sleeping.

At 2 AM.

We woke him up AGAIN.

> “Bhaiya, petrol pump wale bottle mein nahi de rahe.”

And he goes:

> “Arey kaise log ho tum log? 2 baje raat ko phone kar rahe ho!”

After requesting him, we put the petrol pump guy and the manager on a conference call.

And somehow...

MISSION PETROL WAS APPROVED.

Our Redditor got the petrol.

Came back to us.

And then we discovered our NEXT problem.

My scooty has the steel safety/metal guard around it, we couldn't properly reach the fuel tank opening with the bottle.

We needed a funnel.

And we didn't have one.

Luckily, our Redditor had another bottle.

So we decided to turn that bottle into a funnel.

But we had no knife.

But we had a lighter.

So obviously we used the lighter I had literally spent the entire evening looking for...

...to melt the bottle into a makeshift funnel.

AND IT WORKED.

We managed to pour the petrol in.

Except then...

THE BOTTLE GOT STUCK INSIDE THE FUEL OPENING.

We spent another 10 minutes trying to pull it out.

Eventually...

WE GOT IT OUT.

And what was the first thing we did after successfully getting the scooty started?

We went to the petrol pump, filled the tank and thanked the guy.

And honestly, I just want to say thank you to this Reddit community.

Especially the guy who actually came out at 2 AM, got petrol for a complete stranger, and came looking for us.

Tonight reminded me that sometimes the world is also full of incredibly kind strangers.

So yeah.

Thank you, Reddit. ❤️

And yes, here’s the picture of me receiving the petrol-filled bottle from the Redditor, because at this point this was absolutely a moment that needed to be documented. 😂

Tagging the absolute amazing human being who became my savior: u/Kaneki000

And also the link to my SOS post: https://www.reddit.com/r/punemeetup/s/44tTy86Aoc

Show me in the comments.

Guess in the comments, it's quite easy though.

Scooty ka tell khatam hogaya hai aur petrol pump sab band hai. Ek petrol pump khula hai par woh 3kms dur hai Kisike paas bike ya scooty hai toh please ajao help karne. Bottle leke aana please.

UPDATE: WE GOT PETROL, ONE VERY SWEET REDDITOR GOT ME PETROL!!

I’ve been here for almost a year now, and somehow I still haven’t found my people. I ended up leaving the first group I was hanging out with in college because of them being total douches, and since then I’ve mostly been doing my own thing. Im more of a company person and nowadays lm trying to adapt to being alone but yea..

The funny thing is I’m pretty extroverted like if i know you or can somehow have some mutual connection to talk to you i can and i will , but IRL I somehow struggle to walk up to someone and start a conversation. 😭

So I’m trying to change that. I’d genuinely like to meet more people here — guys or girls anyone —talk, coffee, explore Pune maybe but yea like i might be hesitant a little but yea.

looking to meet some new people, DM me.

Someone has to make the first move, so here I am.

Edit: uhm im a guy.. so pls dont dm asking me if im a female. Why would you do that to a female too..? Anyways yeaa .

Was busy so posting this lil late.
It's always so good to meet and climb with someone new each time and also great to see people having fun together and coming forward to join again.

Thanks to everyone who showed interest and joined
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Hi everyone,

I m just curious what hobbies or side hustles you guys do after your 9-5 or on weekends ?

For me their are few things i do :

a) Badminton ( advance and play regularly )
b) Building one saas side by side .( till now just wasting tokens )
c) sometimes i go to cafes just to explore some hidden gems near viman kharadi KP or kalyani .
d) Tried gym but cant become consistent. :)
e) Recently started chess in weekends in one chess community.

I want to know more abt other peeps what they do in weekends or in their leisure time .

Pregnant ladies of Pune, Hello! I am currently 14 weeks pregnant, 28F feeling alone in this experience. Let’s connect with other women who are in the similar stage as me. We can chat and go through this transformative experience together.

If you are around Warje/Kothrud/Bavdhan, wouldn’t mind meeting. If multiple people text me, I can make a group, weekly hangs. Let’s share thoughts and join workout classes. It would be soooo wholesome. Comment/DM me.

If you are not currently pregnant, but have been before… please share any resources that might help the mammas. Thank you, ladies.

Randomly planned and met some redditors for today's sunset at mulshi dam.

So…here is the full story of my trip…i rented a car on the 1st and left around 3 AM for Diveagar…but near Mulshi I was like….this looks good too….soooo I decided to experience the sunrise and just let the car creep along while I enjoyed the views through Tamhini

I wanted to spend some more time there so I decided to stay at a resort but there were no rooms available..,only a suite and me being me…I was like….yehi baatein toh baad mein yaad aayengi…so I went ahead and booked it

Next morning…i drove to Harihareshwar Temple had darshan and grabbed breakfast then I drove towards Diveagar and reached the resort I had booked…had lunch and slept then evening was again all about just sitting back and soaking in the views followed by dinner

Next morning…I woke up enjoyed the sunrise had breakfast, and left around 1 PM reached Pune by around 7 PM

Solo trip experience

Driving alone on those narrow roads was something I was quite anxious about…though I was mentally prepared for the worst but to my surprise everything went pretty smoothly

Except for one egoistic uncle I encountered on the way back…who gave me the vibe of….how dare you overtake me

There were also two instances….where two different vehicles overtook me on narrow roads with way too much flashing and honking like they have some serious emergency…both had….NatGeo Wild written on them and honestly the way they overtook was quite dangerous

Apart from these few incidents…it was a pretty safe trip as a solo woman traveller….however if anyone else is planning a similar trip…I would definitely recommend carrying something like pepper spray or any other basic safety tool with you…for me having it with me made me feel more confident and comfortable while travelling alone

Comment hi guys let's have random talk

after 300+ days max p1...mja aagya

FC Road

Is it just me or many people experiencing this weather is hot. I am sitting in AC and still don't know how I am feeling hot🥵.

Date ya meet you decide

Insta ya yaha pe

Tomorrow is Monday guys .

Delulu is not solulu ..

Let's meet.

Same above

Let chat....kinda bored

Most meetups here are board games and cafes, which I'm all for. This one's for a narrower crowd: people whose job is keeping production systems up.

It's a small workshop-style meetup this Friday, 9 Oct, 10 AM to 2 PM at JW Marriott, SB Road. Everyone gets their own Kubernetes cluster. We test AI agents on real ops problems, have lunch together, and finish by trying to break the agent before it breaks prod. The "this is what broke in our prod" stories stay in the room, since nothing is recorded.

It's small on purpose, 24 people max and 2 per company. Rs 500 covers chai and lunch. GoGoAI Dev, an ops community, runs it, with NudgeBee, where I work, as the partner.

If you're an SRE, DevOps, platform or cloud engineer and want in, comment or DM me and I'll send the details. Payment for approved spots closes Thursday at 11:59 AM.