A Curious 'On The Road' Episode

So curious, that I was even wondering what I could title it.

This happened as I was driving to Cognizant, busy part of city, heavy traffic, fully focused on driving and radio mirchi. 

At a u-turn point some auto guy suddenly turned almost onto my car from the right, and I had to swerve a little to the left. Soon as I did, I saw this guy to my left give me a dirty look. While it was no fault of mine that I had swerved, I could also see why he'd be annoyed. 

I caught up with him a few minutes later, edged towards him, rolled down my glass and said 'sorry'. And in return I got this brilliant flash of a smile. Such a wide genuine nice smile that I was like 'omg, who smiles like that at a stranger'. And to be able to see it despite a helmet.

Anyways, with a nice warm feeling in my heart for having received a smile like that, I drove on.

About ten minutes later, at a junction, he turned left. Funny thing is, he was about two hundred yards in, and I was driving ahead, and for some reason I turned to see (impact of that warm smile I guess) and at that same moment he turned and looked, almost loosing his balance. I waved, and he waved back. It just happened. 

And we went our ways, him left and me straight.........or so I thought.

Fifteen minutes later imagine my amazement when I find him behind me again. I couldn't figure it out. I just drove on as I didn't know what to make of it. 

A little later I take a left, and sure enough he did too. 

At this point I knew this was getting weird, and trust me there was zero creepy there, you could feel the honesty. Just didn't understand it.  

I pulled over. 

He pulled over next to my door. I rolled down my glass. It was like a magical moment, a moment when one ought to have said 'this is so interesting, want to catch a coffee?'. But we didn't. In fact I didn't, he tried. I blew it...so we both mumbled jumbled something and left.

It's only in retrospect that I'm able to capture the connect that was felt. A spontaneous and compelling one. And if nothing, it gave us a beautiful moment... captured here forever.