Wednesday, June 16, 2010
A short story.
It was 8 in the morning and as usual my wife disha was shouting at me to have breakfast and carry the lunch box and the worst part is you just create a scene worst than tsunami if you forget to kiss her goodbye and hear something which you never could make ,”darling, come home early”. I was really late for my office and I spilled tea on my presentation which I even couldn’t complete last night and cancelled the movie plan and made her upset already. I took shower and came out with towel wrapped up around my waist and heard this, “oho!! The soaps are still on your ears , what is wrong with you?”. She brought me the fisnest full sleeve shirt , white with grey linings on them and deep grey pant. I wore them and found the third button of my shirt missing and yelled, “bhagwan, utha le!” (god! Lift me up), she gave a dirty look and came running with a needle and white thread and she unstitched the spare button on the back side of the shirt and came close to me and stitched it, I said, “thank you so much”, well she didn’t like it and said , “keep your rotten thank you with you , may be your boss need it ”, actually today I had a presentation on Global warming and I was really looking forward to it, I was concerned about it since I was a kid. Finally I tried my best to be a hero and caught her tightly and said, “hey you look so beautiful when you are angry, I love you”. She got herself free and yelled, “if you forgot this lunch box , sleep outside!”.
I packed it in hurry my shoe laces were still jumping with every step I took and as I was about to close the door I cleaned my throat and said, “all the best”, actually it was me who wanted this all the best wish but this is what happens when you break silly promises of movies or shopping. She didn’t reply anything and I again coughed and said , “wont you say goodbye even?” she came with heavy step on the door, sweaty like always and said with a deep sigh, “have a good day and come home early”, she slammed the door and I had to walk with a stupid little face since I was getting late, I ran and reached railway station , thanks god I live 3 minutes away from it, I got the ticket and as soon as I reach platform no 4 I see the back portion of the train and it was leaving the station, I ran like a fierce animal and jumped inside it, thanks god, I took the seat closed my eyes and took a deep breath. When I opened my eyes I was shocked , the earth beneath my feet skidded you wont believe that one of the most sick person whom I hate so so much on this planet was sitting in front of me and staring at me, he was the worst enemy of mine , since I saw him staring at me like a fierce panther then I had a feeling what if he tore me in to the chunk of meats and swallow me here only, what will happen to the presentation and my wife?. All of a sudden I made a weird face and greeted him and he greeted me back with a dirty look and with full of hatred, I kept on making weird face and gave a new shape to my hair slowly and opened my lunch box and offered him some, sir would you like to have some, my wife cooked this for me , today is my first day of office and I am new in this big city , everyone is so busy here that nobody asks anyone but in my village we are different” he was confused because since he knew me for a long time but he was dying to know what was going on and shooted, “where are you from? Thank you Im not hungry” and I knew him and how much a pain he was I replied like a villager with a weird accent, “im from kapurthala, Punjab, have you ever been there? Very nice place” and he was so confused and staring at me and because my face was well known to him so he again asked, “what is your name then?” I told, “my mother used to call me shano and my father used to call me shaan and the remaining villager calls me diler mehndi because they think I am a good singer but I am not ”, he was so confused that he not started believing that it was just a coincidence that I resembled his enemy’s face. He was still staring at me and I couldn’t control myself and again offered him my lunch and pleaded him to take a little and made a poor sad face and finally he took a pinch of my lunch, I hated him that he took that little and I hated him more that he really took some, he shouldn’t have. I asked his name and where he was from, he gave a fake smile and answered me , I too started eating , I was suppose to eat my lunch after the presentation and I was eating it and guess what it was really delicious. He was still staring at me and noticing me, in a while he opened his mouth and said, “brother something fell down from your lunch box cover” it was a small pink slip, and it was disha, she wished me all the best and wrote she loves me too and in the end she called me a rotten tomato, and I deserved it. He asked me why I was sweating , I told him about the presentation and I was getting late since I was new to the city. He again asked why I have a presentation if it was my first day, I was feeling so stupid and told him if I will be able to make it then they will keep me otherwise they will dismiss it and he was not happy to hear that and started taking interest in me and we talked a lot about schooling, city, railway, government, wives and everything. That day I knew that I was hiding a very big talent in me of course not how to lie but how to act, yes I was an actor for the next two hours, the train was about to reach our destination and he had to travel a few stations more than me, I started tying my laces and packed and chained m bag , made my hair and stood on the gate, we shook hands and smiled and he asked my contact numbers and I told him I din’t had any since I was new to the town and smiled, train stopped and I came out and turned towards him and said, “I have no idea but you completely look like someone I know but I hate him” train started and I walked away.
I packed it in hurry my shoe laces were still jumping with every step I took and as I was about to close the door I cleaned my throat and said, “all the best”, actually it was me who wanted this all the best wish but this is what happens when you break silly promises of movies or shopping. She didn’t reply anything and I again coughed and said , “wont you say goodbye even?” she came with heavy step on the door, sweaty like always and said with a deep sigh, “have a good day and come home early”, she slammed the door and I had to walk with a stupid little face since I was getting late, I ran and reached railway station , thanks god I live 3 minutes away from it, I got the ticket and as soon as I reach platform no 4 I see the back portion of the train and it was leaving the station, I ran like a fierce animal and jumped inside it, thanks god, I took the seat closed my eyes and took a deep breath. When I opened my eyes I was shocked , the earth beneath my feet skidded you wont believe that one of the most sick person whom I hate so so much on this planet was sitting in front of me and staring at me, he was the worst enemy of mine , since I saw him staring at me like a fierce panther then I had a feeling what if he tore me in to the chunk of meats and swallow me here only, what will happen to the presentation and my wife?. All of a sudden I made a weird face and greeted him and he greeted me back with a dirty look and with full of hatred, I kept on making weird face and gave a new shape to my hair slowly and opened my lunch box and offered him some, sir would you like to have some, my wife cooked this for me , today is my first day of office and I am new in this big city , everyone is so busy here that nobody asks anyone but in my village we are different” he was confused because since he knew me for a long time but he was dying to know what was going on and shooted, “where are you from? Thank you Im not hungry” and I knew him and how much a pain he was I replied like a villager with a weird accent, “im from kapurthala, Punjab, have you ever been there? Very nice place” and he was so confused and staring at me and because my face was well known to him so he again asked, “what is your name then?” I told, “my mother used to call me shano and my father used to call me shaan and the remaining villager calls me diler mehndi because they think I am a good singer but I am not ”, he was so confused that he not started believing that it was just a coincidence that I resembled his enemy’s face. He was still staring at me and I couldn’t control myself and again offered him my lunch and pleaded him to take a little and made a poor sad face and finally he took a pinch of my lunch, I hated him that he took that little and I hated him more that he really took some, he shouldn’t have. I asked his name and where he was from, he gave a fake smile and answered me , I too started eating , I was suppose to eat my lunch after the presentation and I was eating it and guess what it was really delicious. He was still staring at me and noticing me, in a while he opened his mouth and said, “brother something fell down from your lunch box cover” it was a small pink slip, and it was disha, she wished me all the best and wrote she loves me too and in the end she called me a rotten tomato, and I deserved it. He asked me why I was sweating , I told him about the presentation and I was getting late since I was new to the city. He again asked why I have a presentation if it was my first day, I was feeling so stupid and told him if I will be able to make it then they will keep me otherwise they will dismiss it and he was not happy to hear that and started taking interest in me and we talked a lot about schooling, city, railway, government, wives and everything. That day I knew that I was hiding a very big talent in me of course not how to lie but how to act, yes I was an actor for the next two hours, the train was about to reach our destination and he had to travel a few stations more than me, I started tying my laces and packed and chained m bag , made my hair and stood on the gate, we shook hands and smiled and he asked my contact numbers and I told him I din’t had any since I was new to the town and smiled, train stopped and I came out and turned towards him and said, “I have no idea but you completely look like someone I know but I hate him” train started and I walked away.
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