My friend Joe

My friend Joe pronounces the word shit as sit. One fine day he is disgruntled and in front of his team he utters the word. Others mutely sit down. Again he comes up with the word sit. Others have no idea what to do now.

My friend Joe and his team are on a call with an American and a critical issue is being discussed. The American gets another urgent call, so he requests my friend Joe and his team - "Please hang on guys". Joe tells the American - " You hang yourself". The team is in a quizzical mode as to what is the next thing to happen.

My friend Joe goes to a shop to buy perfumes. The salesman hands him one perfume and says - " Iska flavour bahut acha hai." He is now in a fix trying to solve the conundrum, how should he taste it?

My friend Joe comes late to the office, on asking why did he come late, he has a brilliant answer - " Aaj bus ke andar bahut traffic tha". The other guy falls short of his imagination.

My friend Joe decides to profess at a renowned institute. One day he is surrounded by a group of stundents. The students expect him to resolve their queries. The hot and humid climate makes him yell at the stundents saying " I am hot, come one by one." The students are shocked to the core.

My friend Joe is in a conference. He finds a pen on the floor. He, being a good samaritan, gets vocal and asks " Whose pen is this?" But his monotonous speech makes it sound "whose pen(is) this?". The entire conference room goes into a ghastly silence.

Miracle or a coincidence?

Things i need to carry to my office:

1) Zone gate pass

2) Bike gate pass

3) Office id

(and yes myself. :))

Though these are light weight accessories the repercussions ( except for the last one :D) of losing any one of them could be heavy. Especially, you lose the first one and your life is screwed. You will have to experience things like lodging a police complaint, paying a fine etc etc.

Episode 1- Shite !

Its that time of the day when you are in your best mood in the office. I was all set to zoom off on my bike and reach home early until the rains dampened my plans. I had to get my bike to a grinding halt on the L&T bridge to get ready for the next 30 minutes of my arduous wet journey. Donning my new wind-cheater I reached home least knowing that the start of the next day would be what I call "Screwed up part of my life".

Like any other day, I was late to the office. I hurriedly rush off to get onto my bike and it is at that moment that I realise that I do not have the set of badges(1 and 3 above). I come back home, search every alcove at my place but I do not get the set of badges. This is the time when I get a doubt that the set of badges must have popped out from my pocket on the bridge.

Epoisode 2 - The dame luck

With a whole set of anxious thoughts, I drove to the office. I go to the extent of checking for the badges at the spots where I stopped last evening (This might sound too desperate, but yes, I preferred this rather than approaching the police station ). I reached at the zone gate and called up my office for a temporary pass but my luck had yet another plot installed in for me. I get to know from the receptionist that I would need to wait for a couple of hours at the zone entrance as the gate passes were not ready due to some printing problem. She did give me a solution of entering the zone as the checking is not done very often but she didnt forget to add a big disclaimer saying " Come at your own risk because if you are caught you would have to shell out 1000 bucks".

Well, to my surprise there was no checking done at the gate but to my dismay i was caught near my office with the zone guard asking me for an id card. With all the confidence oozing out of me ( i knew if i didnt ooze the confidence i would have to snooze behind bars :)) , I showed him the bike pass and sneaked in.

The next few moments were absolute miracle. I approached the security guard at my office gate for a temporary office card. There was a man arguing with the office guard. He sees me and asks my name. He then hands me the set of badges that I had lost on the bridge the previous evening and walks away.

Who was he? How did he get my badges? How on earth was he there at the same time when i entered the office? Am I blessed :D ?