I’m seriously small town. I mean all the education at the primary level in the gulf countries aside I’m beyond small town. Why? Well you may as well ask that question. I just got back from a trip to the royal city of Lucknow. I entered the sanctum of the top floor to find my enigmatic boss in residence.
“Niki!” (Oh my god what does he want? Didn’t waste much time in letting me know.) “How was your trip?” (How was my trip? HOW WAS MY TRIP? Did the body snatchers walk off with Mr. Enigmatic while I was away? I mean just what is going on here? My boss never asks how my trip was. Never. Not even when I came back from a trip to Gurgaon having switched three buses and walked in looking like death warmed over.)
“By the way that trip to the resort that’s coming up? How do you plan to get to the station?” (Okay now this is freaky. If I quietly walk towards the door and back out slowly the body snatchers might not notice me.) “Because I’m going to have a lot of stuff and I’m planning to call a cab from the office for the same. I was thinking that I could pick you up.” (First things first. One Mr. enigmatic isn’t exactly all that bothered about my welfare. Two he wants something I can feel it in my bones, Three um, hello? There are office cabs at our beck and call?)
“How much stuff are you carrying sir? It’s a three day training programme right?” I blurted out before my caffeine deprived brain could kick in. “ Well three days is along time Niki. You should probably pack a few bottles yourself. There’s nothing much to do there anyway.”
Anyone sane would have said okay walked out. Not me. I said,” But sir doesn’t the Shatabdi provide individual bottles of water to all the passengers? Why do we need to carry more?”
Suffice it to say that I got funny looks from all the other mini enigmas for the rest of the day. Not to mention pathetic jokes involving baby food brands and milk bottles and the like.
For all the other slow brains like myself here are a few brands to jog your grey cells – Bagpiper, Haywards, Cobra, Fosters.
Cheers!
2 comments:
It seems you had a great time in the royal city of Lucknow. The main attraction of this city is Bada Imambara complex. The city is also known as city of Nawab. Just want to know that why did your boss not ask about your holiday trip?
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