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Follies of our life

As we grow old we become

more mature and set our foot

more firmly & stongly on the

walks of life. But when welook back many follies of our 

life made us laugh like small

child. Today I am going to

recollect some of those follies

as it happened in the course of 

time.

Wash bowel

It was a marriage ceremony in some rich family in our locality and our family went to attend it.

Delicate dishes were made and their smells were permiating the evening air. We could not wait any

longer so as the call was made for dinner I was among the first few to go for it. I along with some of 

our friends sat in the last row. The entire arrangement was managed by a new concept – the caterer 

company. The last item came was the wash bowl which was certainly first time in our locality. Non-

a-pause we could not understand what is to be done with it. So I called the man who was serving it.

He was telling me how to remove the greese with lemon in the mean time the old man sitting in the

front row did the most follish thing. He squeezed the lime in water and then drank it in one straight

gulf.

We all started laughing and my firend tipped his bowl. The water spilled on our dress.

Alakarte at room alone

This was happend with a friend of mine. It was his first time in five star hotel in Mumbai. He was

managing the control room for the visiting parliamentary committee in that hotel. After two days of 

intense meetings the committee dispersed and he was to wind up the control room , sign up the bills

and come back home. It was quarter to 8 PM . Before calling it a day he thought why not enjoy

some exotic alakarte dinner for free. After all managing those tough MPs he deserves a self 

treatment. So he ordered some exotic dishes to the room service and went for a shower.

The room booy appeared with a big dinner trolley and was about to set the table when my friend

asked him to leave as he would do it himself.

He opened the trolley and found all the foods ordered. All the pots had small heating arrangements

from below but he could not find the burner or the technique to put on the flame despite the

 presence of a good looking lighter. To hell with the heating as most of the foods were already

warm . So with a knife quickly he took out some jelley like white substance from a small bowel and

 put it on a crossiant bread and took a bite. On the first bite the taste was very bitter , on the second

 bite he found it was burning inside his mouth. Immediately he spitted everything on the floor and

ran for the bathroom . On the way he pressed the call button for the room service.

The boy came and after seeing the dropped crossiant with white soft jelly like substance

immediately understood what had happened. He showed the label and it turned out to be the soft

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wax for the food warmer. The label also reads 'poisenous if taken inside' . Meanwhile my friend had

 puked the morning breakfast items too to ensure that nothing was left inside. When he gained

composure the room boy asked him whether the hotel doctor to be called or not. My friend just

thanked him and told him to take away the trolley and clean the room.

Since then my friend vowed not to try any exotic food in a 5 star hotel.

Mind to remove the Second wrapper 

Before marriage my courtship with my wife was in the 2nd year. Once she took me to a distant

relatives house. Her cousin sister who just returned from US gave us a chocolate each which after 

opening the wrapper I dropped inside my mouth. But even after biting & sucking for 15 minutes I

find it was very hard to eat so I told her that the was very hard to bite. But she said that it was one of 

the best chocolate of US.

Curious me , went to a corner and pulled it out of my mouth and It turned out that I forgot to

remove the 2nd wrapper before taking it in. Secretly I dropped it at the corner and came back. I

thought I managed it very successfully but my wife later found it out.

Since that day everytime I take a chocolate she reminds me to remove the 2nd wrapper.

Ganesh Auto is raided by IT

This was happened a couple of years back. My land line number was earlier allocated to someGanesh Auto who I guess had a very promising RTO business in Mumbai for providing driving

licences . Daily 7 to 8 calls used to come from prospective clients of Ganesh Auto who had several

requirments from lamination of driving license to making driving licences.

Jaya, our PA was fade up attending those calls. She started with normal abuse first to thwart those

calls then threatened them and finally one day she used her brain as a result of which the calls

stopped coming for the first time. Next day a police officer landed at our office. After normal

introduction he told me that there was a complain about some Ganesh Auto at my number indicating

some illegal work was going on at my office address. However after checking the man was

confused as the Ganesh auto & my credential was not matching. I called Jaya believing she could

give some hint.

The man considering it as a hoax call left after sometime. He also advised me to change the number.

However , we never got any more call for Ganesh Auto since that day.

Later that day Jaya confided me that after attending several calls from all class of people for Ganesh

Auto on one call she said that Ganesh auto was raided by Income Tax department and the Sh

Ganseh was absconding. All their calls are tapped by CBI so it was better not to call that number 

again.

We had a fair amount of laugh that day.

S. Bera

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