Gurugram man gets stuck in cab on waterlogged road, sits on car roof to take work calls

A man in Gurugram found himself working from the roof of his stranded cab after waterlogging halted traffic. The scene amused social media users and reflected the daily improvisation forced by monsoon gridlock.Gurugram man gets stuck in cab on waterlogged road, sits on rooftop to take work calls (Photos: @lakshaymehta08/X)When Gurugram’s waterlogged roads brought traffic to a near standstill, one man decided the workday was not going to stop with it. His solution? Climb onto the roof of his stranded cab, open his laptop and take work calls from there.X user Lakshay Mehta shared the video on his account, showing the unusual scene from Gurugram amid persistent monsoon waterlogging.In the video, the cab was seen stuck in a massive traffic jam as waterlogged roads made movement difficult. With vehicles barely moving around him, the man had climbed onto the roof of the cab, where he sat with his laptop open in front of him.Seemingly determined not to let the chaos disrupt his workday, he appeared to be attending office calls and working from the top of the vehicle while traffic remained gridlocked below. According to the caption accompanying the video, the man had been on his way to the office when his cab broke down due to waterlogging.With the traffic situation looking equally hopeless, he called his office, switched to work-from-home mode and simply began working from wherever he was, which happened to be the roof of a cab. The caption read, “A man was on his way to the office when his cab broke down because of waterlogging in Gurugram and the traffic was insane. So he called his office, took WFH and started working on his laptop sitting on the roof of the cab.”Watch the video here:A man was on his way to the office when his cab broke down because of waterlogging in Gurugram and the traffic was insane.So he called his office, took WFH and started working on his laptop sitting on the roof of the cab pic.twitter.com/VLu7T4nreY— Lakshay Mehta (@lakshaymehta08) August 25, 2026The sight left social media users thoroughly amused. Several people joked that the man had taken the idea of flexible working to an entirely different level, while others quipped that this was perhaps the most extreme version of work-from-home Gurugram had seen.Some users also found the scene painfully relatable, pointing out how monsoon waterlogging and traffic jams often force commuters to improvise.For them, the man sitting on top of a cab with his laptop perfectly captured the modern work-life struggle: if you cannot reach the office, apparently the office will have to come to the middle of a flooded road.- EndsPublished By: Yashna TalwarPublished On: Aug 25, 2026 19:24 IST