All in a day's work

Mumbai gave me a new lease of life today.
I do market research for a living. Questionnaires form the lifeline of what we do. As luck would have it, someone decided to cart questionnaires by bike on a rainy day and ended up dropping a good bundle of 200 of them on a Mumbai main road. Five mins later when he realised , he rushed back and found nothing. Mumbai, known for its ability to practise 'finders keepers' had just lived up.....once again.
Meanwhile, in office, the rest of us dreaded everything from client ire to loss of confidentiality to contemplating sacking the culprit.
A phone call from a garage mechanic almost got dismissed by the receptionist as wrong number. He had the booty and no this was not a ransom call.It was just a simple Mumbaikar delivering in true Mumbai spirit.
An overjoyed office accepted with gratitude the 200 questionnaires- crisp, clean and stacked up neatly.
The samaritan accepted no gifts and vanished soon. He had a garage to run you see.

Comments

Sharan Sharma said…
what s***! This is cool!

Now imagine someone we know saying "mera baccha log..."
August 11, 2006 2:07 am
Anonymous said…
This is awesome...i could imagine some of the questionnaires turning up while having a bhel or some such....
August 18, 2006 2:02 pm
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