We often study a famous concept by Toyota by the name Just in Time(JIT) in our operations & supply chain related subjects. Today we practiced it.
At around 10:40PM, we had just finished watching some new movie trailers. We were discussing about watching a movie on Saturday, the next day, but certain other commitments suddenly gave us an idea. We could rush to catch the 11:10PM movie at a movie hall at least 30 minutes away. That meant that we could be cutting it to close if we wanted to get the 11:10PM movie at PVR Mulund, Piramal Mall. My only condition, the movie had to be “Safe House”. The three of us quickly changed clothes and started running out of our rooms, ran down the flight of stairs (from the 6th floor), taking 3-4 steps at a time. One of my friends, being a heavy set person, even went faster than we could have ever imagined when he took 2 steps at a time.
We got an autorikshaw at about 10:50PM. We told the autorikshaw driver that we Would pay him extra if he drove fast enough to help us reach the movie hall in time. As luck played along, all the traffic signals we encountered turned green (well except for just 1). At the only red light we encountered I threatened the guy by saying that I won’t pay him extra if he didn’t jump it. Reluctantly he did. Not my proudest actions, but in the heat of the moment, we did these things. As the auto came to a screeching halt, one of my friends stayed back in the auto to settle the fare, while me and my room-mate ran across the moderately crowded mall, pulling a lot of attention to ourselves, even dodging some kids playing, to reach the movie ticket counter which had a few people before us. I hate queues, and hated the queues even more today, because it was 11:10PM already. We quickly got the tickets, ran across through the security checks, and rushed to reach the movie hall just as the first scene started rolling.
The movie was worth the rush.
2 comments:
Well nice movie but what was awesome was the way it was planned...
rofl for the 'heavier set of person' part :P
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