THE RAIN, BUT NO RAIN

 

When I used to work a full day and come late at night from the office after working more than 12 hours a day, I was always out of energy.  My friend Sunny was my roommate. He was also always late. We were staying in a single room with one old bed. The room was on the ground floor, and the owner's residence was on the first floor. 

Sometimes owner's residence above or below your residence is equal to a headache. They keep an eye on you like a CCTV camera. It is not that we used to do something which we were required to hide from the owner.

But too much attention sometimes irritates. Anyways, we got used to this behavior.

On one fine day, the owner had a dream; maybe, he decided to renovate his home. He called up an architect and finalized the map. We both were completely unaware of the situation.

The next day, the work started. They started removing old tiles. Then they just spread water there.

We both were at our respective offices. We were completely unaware that there was an adventure planned by our owner for us.

We came back from the office. But to our surprise, there was raining inside our room. The slab leaked water. All over the room, there was water like it was raining. We immediately called up the owner and asked him about it. He said sorry for the problem, but there was no solution. He gave us a plastic to keep on things. But it was not enough. Then sunny and I went out and bought a big Polyethylene cloth. We tied that cloth below the roof of the room. Somehow, this solved the problem temporarily.

We slept with the thought that there would be no issue now in the night.

But all of a sudden, a little flow of water started from one place, and some sprinkling drops came on our faces. We got awake and immediately ran to place a water bucket below it. That day we did this adventure to stop raining in our room.

In the early morning, the owner came down and gave a smile. We both were in anger but bachelors who get a room on rent, need to behave neatly, otherwise, search for another room.  It was hard to get another room so fast. So we decided to manage somehow.

We spent almost a week with this condition till their construction got completed. 

Every day, it was raining for us but there was no rain outside.   

Today, whenever we meet, we laugh at this incident and our innocence.