My usual break fast is two idly, one vada and one cup boost. This is the same thing over last three months on all weekdays. I don’t like idly much but I realized that from our canteen menu this is the only dish with which I will not get bored very easily. Our break fast starts when we see the message from our OC ‘Breaking for Tea’. Then it is a walk of 100 feet on our floor. 60% of cubicles will be empty at that time. My eyes will be riveted to cubicle number one on the way out. We have named that cubicle with the name 'ONE' to say G1 and B1 which is the girl @ cubicle-one and Boy @ cubicle-one.
G1 & B1 pair is very famous among our group becoz we can see all ‘coochhe cooche’ things in that cubicle at all times. In the 9 hours they spent in the office I guess only one hour they might be apart, when each go to rest room and when the gal goes around talking over her phone. Otherwise the guy will be sitting on her table beside her computer not leaving space for even a phone to be placed in-between. If not the gal will be sitting right next to B1’s system doing 'cocche cooche'. Things like this make our floor interesting to work. BG1 pair will be going for breakfast just before or after we leave. So we will have fulltime entertainment in the food court also where u can see various company policies are being violated. Things like
Eating from one plate!
Eating with one spoon!
Drinking from one glass!
(Yes you are right, a little bit of jealous when cute gals have fun with boys )
But for a good cause, if company policies are violated, we have to keep our eyes closed na.
Love and care is good right?
Apart from this we have lot of other interesting characters out in the food court.
The Guy Seenu, who is the tea-Horlicks-Boost Master who will give us great milkshakes with lots of sugar which half the time will be left as solid at the bottom of the tumler when we finish our drink. But the drink is always the best.
We have one girl by the name ‘BOOST’. Nothing in relation to the ‘boost- secret of my energy’ but the person who comes to have breakfast at the same time as us, always have boost and will spend almost 20 minutes sipping one cup of boost, so we thought to name her boost. There is lot of things peculiar about this person. She requires at least six feet wide walk-ways and who ever gets to overtake or come against her be careful, her hands might slap you as it goes on a almost half a circle march past, as she sways ahead. It is a pleasure to watch her!!! ( Hooo ....hope watching and admiring beaty is not considered as a crime) We usually watch her from our food court entrance to the queue for food and to the desk. She manages to do the same half circle sways with her hand even when balancing a plate of idly with Sāmbhar.
One day she happened to sit right next to us. So we had to limit our comments about the surrounding as we might hurt others!!! So our breakfast topic for that special day was fulltime concentrated on how bad India had played in the world cup and about the Bob wollmer murder case. As usual she finished her idly and came back with her boost. Even when I was explaining about Ganguly’s comeback, my eyes where following her boost cup. She had kept it on the desk thirteen times and held it in her hand for at least 10 minutes without even one zip. I wondered how it is possible, even if I made a point not to drink some thing and hold it, I will be involunterly zipping it at least once. Then came the worst part, the tumbler slipped from her hand. Half the boost was all over her. She was startled for a moment and then got back to her usual self. Got the tumbler with no boost left, took into the spoiled glass section, and cleaned at the wash area, She came back with a new cup of Boost and finished it. First of all, one need real guts to come back to the same place where we had done some thing funny/mistake/stumbled. I was happy to see that she got her composure back very fast and no one around her laughed at her. We struggled to keep a 'WE-NEVER-SAW-ANYTHING' expression and still serached for the killer in Bob-wollmer incident.
This is a kind of thing that can happen to everyone. Last time I tried to learn ice skating, I fell down at least 15 times in 30 minutes, but the crowd was so impressive to laugh at each stumbling and ice breaking falls. I’m some how used to laugh at myself and each time I spent some time laughing at myself after the fall. I did skate properly after two hour struggle. But if we have a crowd waiting around to laugh at everything we do, then it is a tough society to live.
I felt very bad on that day for her and the lost boost. May be she should have finished it a little early to avoid the wastage but now days she seems to drink it faster!!!
I don’t know when I have started this journey, and I have no idea where I'm headed. On the way somewhere in my childhood, I realized it’s a journey, which has cold hands of death waiting for me at the end. But there is something we can do about the how we make through this journey. The choices seem to be very easy when we take them at the beginning which turns out to be critical later.
