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Thursday, May 31, 2007

Dream Honeymoon

It was an arranged marriage. He has just reached to bangalore from his native after wedding. He was leaving to US after 3 days for 2 months without wife. He has actually postponed his business trip after pleading with his boss for more leaves.
Day1: He was in office and supposed to leave for honeymoon in the evening 6pm. He had booked tickets before leaving for his wedding ceremony. It was a two days package in Munnar, a very beautiful hill station and very popular destination for honeymoon. He finished up all his preparation for his trip to US at office and reached office. And his honeymoon started :). You cant expect what was coming.
They reached the pickup point at 5 30pm from where their bus was supposed to come. He had booked tickets in an Ac Volvo bus from a reputed Travel agent. He had chosen the best package available for his honeymoon. He wanted to have the unforgettable experience as he wont get another honeymoon.
It was 6:30pm. Still bus has not come. He thought he would wait for another 15 minutes before calling his travel agent. He waited but bus didn’t turn up.
He: Hi! I had booked this tour for Munnar.
Travel Agent: Yes sir, How can I help?
He: I am waiting here for this bus and it has still not turned up.
TA: But sir, tour was supposed to start in morning 6 am not in the evening. Its mentioned in the ticket. How can you miss That??
He: What????
Now what??? He told his wife that they have missed the bus. He didn’t want to miss his honeymoon. He took an auto and reached majestic. He took an old khachara private bus for Munnar. The bus was really great. Each and part of the bus was making noise and vibrating. The windows were not working. As it was a bit late evening, it started getting a bit cold.
He took the mineral water bottle to drink. While he was drinking, the bus went on a pot hole and he spilled all the water on his wife's clothes. She was anyways dressed according to the Volvo not to this bus. Now after getting totally drenched by him, she was shivering in the cold weather on the seat where windows were not getting closed. She was fuming because of his deeds.
Somehow she managed the travel. They reached Munnar in late night and joined the same tour. The journey was not very pleasant. Now when they reached the hotel where the tour operator has made arrangements, he asked for his double room. He was given the keys of a room. He was shocked to see the twin sharing room for a couple on honeymoon. It was double room but both the beds separated and cannot be shifted. He went back to the tour manager and hotel manager, who were sleeping. He asked them to change the room and give a room with a kingsize/queensize bed. The tour operator told him and he never told them that he has booked a two tickets for a couple. He was also told that as he has joined so late, they don’t have any other rooms available and nothing can be done now.
He was furious, frustrated and deeply disturbed when he reached back to his room. He didn’t say anything to his wife. He thought that let him do some damage control by giving her the night dresses and other gifts which he had bought for her. He started searching for that bag. Later on realised that he had left that bag at home and took another bag which he was supposed to carry for US.
Meanwhile his wife has changed her dress and has slept on the single bed. He couldn’t sleep for a minute. He was thinking that there cant be anything worse than this first night. Both of them sleeping in the same room but not on the same bed. Things have not gone right at all till now. He was planning of doing better next day. And actually he did better. But in making blunders.
Next day, their tour was taking them out for a sightseeing. But our man was so frustrated with the events of last day was thinking of better things than sight seeing. His wife was all for the sight seeing as her experience had been truly great till now. But she was convinced by her husband to stay at hotel for the rest of the day and get some time to spend together. Good. Great idea. He told the operator that they are not taking the sightseeing trip and would stay in the hotel. All other tourists left early in the morning. So our couple slept again to get over the tiredness. When they woke up late in the morning, both of them were very hungry. They asked the reception if they can get something to eat. The staff told them that they don’t have any arrangements for the food as the whole tour was eating outside. They wont get even lunch there. So when he thought of eating out, he realised that the hotel was in quite outskirts of the city and nothing much was available there. The tour had planned breakfast on the way for the sight seeing. He somehow managed to get bread- butter from a small shop which was their breakfast and lunch. Meanwhile his wife was quite upset with him. They could also not talk much to each other as he was busy arranging for food during the day.
In the evening, he spent more than couple of hours, to request the hotel staff to arrange an executive room for themselves after paying a hefty amount to them. The staff gave it to him the special room after lot of reluctance. He was really happy atleast in succeeding in doing atleast one thing right on the whole trip. He reached his room and asked his wife to pack the luggage and move to another room. She was furious with the suggestion and declined. She had opened up the luggage and washed quite a lot of clothes while he was away trying to get another room. She was in no mood of spending another of packing and unpacking. So he tried to convince her but of no use. So again he had to sleep on the separate beds, this time even when he had managed to get a right room.
Next day morning, their tour took them back to Bangalore. And his dream honeymoon ended. Next day he went to office to finish up the formalities for his trip to US. Meanwhile his wife found the bag of night dresses alongwith his luggage for US trip. So now think what she was thinking.
She was actually thinking of divorcing him. But timely intervention of a friend helped him. The main problem in the series of the event was that there was very less communication between them.
But still I pray that noone should get a honeymoon so eventful.

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Wednesday, May 30, 2007

A for Apple

This is a real story from one of my friend's neighbourhood. They were having a very young kid. He has not even started to go to school. His parents bought a book for him so that he can learn the English alphabets "ABCD..." .
So.. This kid is reading the book:
"A for Apple(big colorful picture). Mummy, mein apple kha loon??(Mummy, can I have the apple?)"
Before his mom can do say anything, he tore the page and ate it...

This great lover of apple tore so many books and ate so many printed apples, that his parents had to run a search for a book in which " A is not for Apple" :). In the end, they were able to find a book where A was for Aeroplane :) but they still had to save the books of his friends where "A was still for Apple" :)

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