Skip to main content

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.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Humanity Pays Off

It was just another day. After a very hectic workload in the company, I was very much tired. At that time there were mobiles but not with common people. The Internet had started its influence and was capturing human beings like the British had captured India in history. Being an engineer, now I think you waste half of your youth life just thinking of job search, job change over, and its frustration. Unknowingly I started my journey on the same path.  Having tired though, I went to café… no..no not café coffee day. I went to an internet cafe to search and apply for jobs. This had become my daily routine to go to a cyber café and search for a job.  One fortunate day, I got a call for an interview. It was in some area in Pimpri Chinchwad. I was needed to go by city bus. As usual, I lied to my boss and got leave for health reasons. I went for the interview and it was good. But they told me that they will inform me results in one or two days. I was hopeful. With lots of th...
14 comments
Read more

Truth is stranger than fiction.

My boss, Anant, was of mid-thirty. He was a good guy and a jolly person. We were three in the office.  Myself Karan, working as a trainee engineer. And an assistant named Vaibhav. Whatever work was there, we used to distribute and do the work. But many times, we used to go to customer or vendor sites; there would be nobody in the office. So, Anant decided to have a receptionist for the office. He explained to us, “She will handle office documents and call management.” He told me to give an advertisement in a local newspaper in Pune. I and Vaibhav immediately completed the job. Boys will be boys. Both of us were very happy with the idea that one girl would be there with us for the next few days in the office.  Finally, the day of interviews came and one by one girls started entering for interviews. Anant had selected few girls for the interview. Vaibhav and I, both were so excited that we told Anant that there is no appointment with any customer as well as vendor. W...
6 comments
Read more

"A thief is a thief, whether he steals a cucumber or a diamond .”

Theft is a big profession in the world. From small level servants to big level people, can work under this profession. They earn a lot of tax-free money. I met lots of thieves in a different stages of my life. To take any object without the knowledge of the owner of the object is a theft. Every thief has his own reasons to do a theft.   I  was a child when I met a thief who used to take away children. That day, I was with my Aunt. We went to the dentist for some dental work. After that, we went to a medical shop. As I remember, I was just standing outside of the shop. My aunt was in the shop. A woman having one small child in hand came to me. She said “Come, I will give you chocolate” and she held my hand and started pulling me with her. I was so dumb that I had started walking with her silently. My aunt came back from the shop and to her surprise, I was not there on road. When she saw both sides of the road, she noticed that I was going with a lady wi...
6 comments
Read more