Riding in a car... chatting with friends….enjoying the “green” view… listening to Kishore…
Mac: You girls always trouble me a lot... from tomorrow go by office bus… don’t come with me in my car…
Aps: ok ok… (With sly smile knowing Mac is just kidding… she never takes him seriously anyways)
Me: Nooooo.. Please Mac… I was just kidding… I like the extra sleep I get… (In my mind) I hope he is not serious… I don’t want to go by bus…. Why does this happen to me… why why…???
This is how my journey to the new office goes everyday (it has been a week now)…
Having moved to Hinjewadi office I have mini picnics (which refers to the ride to & fro) everyday… The location of the office makes me think that my company is taking employee ‘Health’ very seriously… It is in Hinjewadi phase 3… in the middle of nowhere (literally)… tiny hillocks on all sides, no pollution, fresh air 24/7 and to top it all, lifts are not installed yet… so ‘trek’ up five floors is everyday workout (at least twice a day as canteen is on ground floor)… Anyways the reason for writing this piece is twofold… firstly logging happy times is good practice, I really enjoy coming to this office… Secondly if God calls up (dunno how he got my number)... it is something that you have to record…. But as He started talking my head was trying to figure whose silly prank this must be…
Stop it… He said... stop thinking and listen to me for a change… He gave me verification to prove who he was (which cannot be disclosed... security reasons)…. Well my mind accepted ‘This is God’… and as soon as it did, being the cribbing kind, started compiling a list for Him… it started with… well ‘Why’...
But before I could commence He started…….. Cribbing……
God: Why do you think Shahrukh Khan is God?
Me: Oh that… I don’t... I just say that... I don’t mean it… I just love him that’s all…
God: Well does he listen to all the cribbing you do?
Me: Mmm…
God: Why is that you don’t think of him when you are in trouble…??
Me: Hmm... well... I…
God: Last month you didn’t want to go to Hinjewadi… coz you liked driving your bike to office…. And cribbing session lasted a week… so I started working on the problem…
Me: Ya… but I didn’t know… wait…working on….??
God: Two weeks later your friends planned their move to Hinjewadi… and then you wanted to go too… Another 10 days of cribbing… so I had to undo all the meddling I had done… and rework... do u like to rework... coz customer didn’t know what he wanted..????
Me: You meddled too...
God: What did you think… things just happen…? I have to meddle in people’s heads to give other people what they want…
Me: You do that… now I know… you meddler…
God: So what… now that you are having a good time going to office… enjoying the view… again Shahrukh Khan is God… why why… (He is imitating me…)
Me: I just saw DDLJ over the weekend… Hangover…
God: Hangover… Really… Anyway a week in the new office and you start cribbing again…
Me: I didn’t crib…
God: ‘Why do I have to wake up at 7.45…why why..’ (Repeat 20 times… 5 mornings in a row)… what do you call that…
Me: Lack of sleep…
God: Oh… trying to be smart… you need to be fixed…
Suddenly Mac cut into the conversation and the call got disconnected…
Mac (teasing me): So you would be going by the office bus at 8 am from tomorrow… instead of coming by my car... Good luck… Get up on time or you will miss the bus…
Me (in my head): Oh my God (literally)... He is meddling... Stop cribbing... Stop cribbing…
Moral: Don’t annoy the Big Guy with little problems... He is also trying to do his best I guess…
PS: This does not mean I stopped cribbing… just trying hard not to…
