Fare-well
Goodbye we all sang
Holding back those tears,
No sooner than that and we hear “Bang! Bang!”
Look who is here!
And now for some background! This team mate of mine was leaving for the US of A, for some real long term project*. So when he pronounced that he was going for a good long term, we nearly buried him alive, thinking he was gone for good, conjuring up images of him with a white wife (just that the wife is white), and he loaded with a Green Card. The possibility of a few kids was of course not ruled out.
Plans were immediately made about all those send off parties, which translates to mean gift giving sessions. We even contemplated the usual cutting of a cake but decided he was too old for that. Hastily scrawled greetings containing phrases like “Have a ball”, “We will definitely miss u”, “The project would not quite be the same sans u”, were given out. A sentily senti speech was also churned out. What is a send off when the poor guy just gets our wishes and no monetary benefits and so a gift was purchased, and quickly made its way to his bag, after the usual “Photo 4 Posterity” session. The wrapping paper was taken off hastily, (so much haste might not even be there when a real hot couple undress each other too I suppose) and he feigned surprise (one is supposed to right?) and said the usual “Just the thing I wanted”. This done, we managed to extract a dinner treat from him, a fat bill largely owing to the “high-spirited” people we had for company. Finally! The guy boarded his flight to Mumbai ready to take off from there to the US a day later.
Here is where the whiz-bang twist in the tale comes. Our pal calls his ex-roomie (who would not be the ex for a while now) and says,
Our Pal: “Umm, actually there has been a small change in my plan”.
(While the not so ex roomie listens our man continues)
Our pal: “Actually some small issue with the project. Ummm… Nothing really much but you know how they hype up these things. Just that for some silly reason the project got scrapped”.
Ex-Roomie (Rendered speechless, clears throat and asks meekly): “That means?”
Our pal (As cheerfully as he could): “umm…Trip cancelled!”.
There would be this moment of awkwardness between us when he comes back, we eying the watch we gave him considering reusing it for the next “send-off” and, he, eying our stomachs and doing the calculations as to how many Monthly Project fund contributions he can go about without paying. So much for Change of plans!
* Short Term Project:- A short term project as the name suggests is any project for which one hits the land of opportunities for a period of time extending from as short as 2 years to about 3.5 years
* Long Term project:- Near life long
Holding back those tears,
No sooner than that and we hear “Bang! Bang!”
Look who is here!
And now for some background! This team mate of mine was leaving for the US of A, for some real long term project*. So when he pronounced that he was going for a good long term, we nearly buried him alive, thinking he was gone for good, conjuring up images of him with a white wife (just that the wife is white), and he loaded with a Green Card. The possibility of a few kids was of course not ruled out.
Plans were immediately made about all those send off parties, which translates to mean gift giving sessions. We even contemplated the usual cutting of a cake but decided he was too old for that. Hastily scrawled greetings containing phrases like “Have a ball”, “We will definitely miss u”, “The project would not quite be the same sans u”, were given out. A sentily senti speech was also churned out. What is a send off when the poor guy just gets our wishes and no monetary benefits and so a gift was purchased, and quickly made its way to his bag, after the usual “Photo 4 Posterity” session. The wrapping paper was taken off hastily, (so much haste might not even be there when a real hot couple undress each other too I suppose) and he feigned surprise (one is supposed to right?) and said the usual “Just the thing I wanted”. This done, we managed to extract a dinner treat from him, a fat bill largely owing to the “high-spirited” people we had for company. Finally! The guy boarded his flight to Mumbai ready to take off from there to the US a day later.
Here is where the whiz-bang twist in the tale comes. Our pal calls his ex-roomie (who would not be the ex for a while now) and says,
Our Pal: “Umm, actually there has been a small change in my plan”.
(While the not so ex roomie listens our man continues)
Our pal: “Actually some small issue with the project. Ummm… Nothing really much but you know how they hype up these things. Just that for some silly reason the project got scrapped”.
Ex-Roomie (Rendered speechless, clears throat and asks meekly): “That means?”
Our pal (As cheerfully as he could): “umm…Trip cancelled!”.
There would be this moment of awkwardness between us when he comes back, we eying the watch we gave him considering reusing it for the next “send-off” and, he, eying our stomachs and doing the calculations as to how many Monthly Project fund contributions he can go about without paying. So much for Change of plans!
* Short Term Project:- A short term project as the name suggests is any project for which one hits the land of opportunities for a period of time extending from as short as 2 years to about 3.5 years
* Long Term project:- Near life long
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