Scramble for a highchair – Scene 2
Posted by AtPeace on July 31, 2005
It’s afternoon & no sign of another chair. Cha! No one seems bothered. I call up again, and I’m reassured that ‘someone’ would be sent soon. I continue working, keeping my hopes alive. As the day fades away, so do my hopes.
The next morning I walk in, hoping that the chair would have somehow been replaced overnite. Well, it was not. Thoroughly disgusted, I call up again & tell them it’s the third time I’m calling for this. I’m told again that ‘someone’ would come. *sigh*
A short while later, I’m in the next cubicle clearing V’s doubt when my phone rings. I pick it up from her seat.
‘Madam, xxxx?’
‘Yes?’
‘Neenga chair -‘
‘Yeah!’
‘- vendam nu call panneenga illaya?’
‘WHAT?’
‘Illa, chair seriya irukku, maatha vendam nu marubadiyum call -‘
‘NOOO!’
Ada paavingala! Is this their idea of a joke???
‘Ennoda chair seri illai-nga…’, I recite the story again.
‘Oh, seri Madam’.
I hang up & narrate this story to C & J and they burst out laughing. Instantly. Ellam en neram!
A few minutes later, I’m in V’s cubicle and someone arrives to take away my chair. I look at him suspiciously – irukara chair-ayum eduthuttu porare? As if on cue, C looks at me, grinning and shaking his head – ‘Avlo dhan, pochu!’. ‘C! Summa irunga!!!’
After a few more mins, the office boy returns with another chair. I ditch V and her doubt and run to my cubicle – well, if you can call it a run. I do the slow-motion, old movies la hero, heroine types of run. (Trust me ppl, I really did this.) The office boy darts glances at me, unable to comprehend why on earth anyone would run like that. I ignore his reaction and thank him for the chair. It seems to work fine. Yipee!!!
‘Boohhoooo…. sob…sob…’, I try to express my happiness. The office boy stands there just long enough to look at me very weirdly before moving away. C grins and J chuckles. Sniffing, I turn to my monitor and msg D –
‘Yeeee!!! I finally got a proper chair!!! sob… sob…’
‘Hehe…. loosu ponne… velaya paaru!!’
*sigh* She’s right. I really need to get to work now – 76 hrs, you know.
The next morning I walk in, hoping that the chair would have somehow been replaced overnite. Well, it was not. Thoroughly disgusted, I call up again & tell them it’s the third time I’m calling for this. I’m told again that ‘someone’ would come. *sigh*
A short while later, I’m in the next cubicle clearing V’s doubt when my phone rings. I pick it up from her seat.
‘Madam, xxxx?’
‘Yes?’
‘Neenga chair -‘
‘Yeah!’
‘- vendam nu call panneenga illaya?’
‘WHAT?’
‘Illa, chair seriya irukku, maatha vendam nu marubadiyum call -‘
‘NOOO!’
Ada paavingala! Is this their idea of a joke???
‘Ennoda chair seri illai-nga…’, I recite the story again.
‘Oh, seri Madam’.
I hang up & narrate this story to C & J and they burst out laughing. Instantly. Ellam en neram!
A few minutes later, I’m in V’s cubicle and someone arrives to take away my chair. I look at him suspiciously – irukara chair-ayum eduthuttu porare? As if on cue, C looks at me, grinning and shaking his head – ‘Avlo dhan, pochu!’. ‘C! Summa irunga!!!’
After a few more mins, the office boy returns with another chair. I ditch V and her doubt and run to my cubicle – well, if you can call it a run. I do the slow-motion, old movies la hero, heroine types of run. (Trust me ppl, I really did this.) The office boy darts glances at me, unable to comprehend why on earth anyone would run like that. I ignore his reaction and thank him for the chair. It seems to work fine. Yipee!!!
‘Boohhoooo…. sob…sob…’, I try to express my happiness. The office boy stands there just long enough to look at me very weirdly before moving away. C grins and J chuckles. Sniffing, I turn to my monitor and msg D –
‘Yeeee!!! I finally got a proper chair!!! sob… sob…’
‘Hehe…. loosu ponne… velaya paaru!!’
*sigh* She’s right. I really need to get to work now – 76 hrs, you know.
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Prabu Karthik said
summa solla koodadhu. rombo enjoy panninen unga blog. keep it up.
VeeKay said
Hey Madhu,
Nice posts. Thanks for blogrolling me.
Vijai
ioiio said
Chair-person aaga try pannreengalaa
F e r r a r i said
Arasiyal serara plan irukka? 🙂
Madhu said
Prabu,
Thanku thanku thanku…
Vijai,
Remember – you owe me a treat too!
ioiio / f e r r a r i,
yen pa yen? why me?