Murphy was a sadistic bastard. And I don’t know why he has a special liking towards me, and keeps striking in my territory. Take this for a Friday:
- I had to reach office early, which means I had to wake up early
- While I left home on time, as luck (or rather Murphy) would have it, a truck had overturned on the highway and there was a huge traffic jam
- I reached office later that I would have liked to only to realize that… (hold your breath) I had taken my brother’s laptop instead of mine (aaaargh)
- As Murphy-boy would have it, my bro had a late night the previous day and was happily snoring away, in no hurry to leave home
- Somehow, I managed to get Bhrata-shri out of bed and on his way to office, while I embarked on the 40-min peak-hour journey to his office, cursing myself every minute at the stupid blunder
- Remember the overturned truck? Well, in our country, it is considered to be inauspicious to clear an overturned truck till it has spent at least half-a-day in nirvana
- This meant that Bhrata-shri took 1.5 hours to cover an otherwise 20-min distance
- While I was waiting outside bro’s office for what seemed like an eternity, but was closer to an hour, I was confronted by 3 traffic policemen at different times asking me to take my car out of the no-parking zone…
- I almost gave them a piece of my mind – that they should be trying to overturn the overturned truck back in position… Well, didn’t I say ‘almost’.
- Just when I thought things could not get worse, I get a call from my Super-boss’ secretary telling me that my meeting with the Super-boss, which was at 12-30 was being advanced… to NOW.
- I had to tell her that I couldn’t come down – no, no, it’s not that I couldn’t come down 2 floors to his office, but that I couldn’t come down to office itself.. A suspicious secretary and a busy and impatient super-boss make a deadly combo, btw.
- Finally, bro turns up at noon, and we exchange laptops through moving cars the way smugglers used to exchange briefcases in the 70s in bollywood
- And now the icing on the cake – while on my way back, a taxi scratches the side of my car, and stops… the driver turns back and says “Aaj saala din hi kharab hai” – for once I was speechless.
Damn you Murphy
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6 comments:
Hahahahaha! Murphy rocks! :)
I would love to see this particular action in real life:
Finally, bro turns up at noon, and we exchange laptops through moving cars the way smugglers used to exchange briefcases in the 70s in bollywood
lolzzzzzzzzzzz
Saale... Murphy ki kya galti hai.. How could you take your brother's laptop instead of yours? Zabardasti Murphy ki image kharab kar raha hai
@Kima - There is obviously some exaggeration there.. the cars were static when we exchanged the lappies, but yes, we didn't get out of the respective cars - There was no time!
@Vikram - Boss, I know it's my stupidity to have taken a wrong laptop, but its Murphy's doing that it had to happen on a day when everything else had to go wrong
hahahahah...cudnt stop myself from laughing...its hilarious :))
@holytrance - Trust me it wasn't funny when it happened :-) But yeah, Murphy has a sense of humour too
I guess now is the time for more drinks and dreams
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