Meeting a railfan for the first time

Let me now tell a nice story which changed my entire view of rail fanning and my life as well . It was the slightly rainy day in the month of September 2001 when after being on the IRFCA mailing list for some time, i got a mail from this guy named Shashanka Nanda. He was based at Raj Bhavan and we decided to meet up at coffee day panjagutta in SC( it still stands today i will get a snap). At that time this place was very quiet and peaceful unlike today and after 19.00 there was little traffic. So i was working in Banjara hills road no -03 and i left office a bit early and i see this reasonably medium sized guy in a attire which would make you pick out he is from a outstation shed, and knowing that he was a visitor i made a bold guess and introduced myself as lakshman T IRFCA member , after breaking the ice we then had some coffee together and then i think we did railfan or made a plan for the weekend. I did later meet him up at his place near rajbhavan this was way before necklace road station was built, i still remember that this guy raju who used to cook at shanks place(when he left, shanks was very moved, that's for another day) made lovely rotis and chai and shanks would say "Arey.....Rajjjju chai pila de yaar!!!!!!!!!" and he would respond "Abhi diya sir ". All this while we would see wdp4 shunting between SC-HYB play MSTS or watch the movements which we termed as "the game", no not MSTS but light coach movements from LGD coach overhaul workshop to HYB coaching depot. Then towards evening we would stroll down towards the line or watch trains disappear at James street from our home made RRI which was Shanks balcony. Soon enough we met one guy called Gautam Parthsarathy or GP for short (hope i got it right) who lived at MS matka at begumpet which is behind the HYB-SC line neat our member vrijlesh's house, we would often meet up at his place and chat about trains for hours till GP would throw us out literally..... any honk or hoot and we scramble to the terrace and watch the light engine moments or just buy some chips and coke and keep discussing, GP friends did get quite fed up and when they saw us coming they would run away, the biggest runner was a guy called Andy if i am right, , one of GP favourite words would be " I swear ", it was as regular as a wdm2 letting of air cylinder pressure!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

I will add more later in this got to crash now...