A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS

Well I have a friend, let's call him Mr. "A", now this person after coming to Delhi, has seen so much of Delhi’s underbelly, which i living here for the past 20 yrs, have not even imagined...

So lets start from the start his hilarious yet sad yet true story…. “A” came to Delhi on 26^th July and promptly lost his new cell phone at Rajiv Chowk Metro Station while listening Radio on it…I simply can’t fathom how can someone lose his cell phone while he is listening songs on it ….In his words “yaar hil bhi nahi paa raha tha train mein, mobile kaise dekhta”…this was before I knew him and as he had been to Delhi for like 4 days ..such a thing is natural….But the point to be noted here is that he lost his cell at the beginning of August….

Anyway Life moved on…. Our beloved “A” bought a new cell and after much deliberation (frantic phone calls,orkut messages and emails) had all his friends( oh I must say they r toooo many ) message him dere numbers….So now everything was stable and calm in A’s life…. But fate had other intentions….

One thing u shd know about Mr A before we proceed , is that he is a basketball freak…. Can play the game for hours at stretch .Now our story fast forwards to an evening at Jamia Hamdard (center of our training), our Mr “A” was playing basketball in full flow with some jamia folk And as usual we all being mere spectators ( I frankly admit , am terrible at this game).Mr”A” had this habit of putting his cell phone behind the base of the basket stand when the game starts, as he used to get fully engrossed in it. Now this unfortunate day what happened was that he forgot to pick it up on the way out from the court and as usual we being in talks, also forgot to remind him.

But he remembered his missing cell phone about 5 minutes after he exited the court….So we all went back to get the cell phone back , joking all the way back and teasing him about what wud happen if his cell phone was stolen again…although we knew in our hearts that in this darkness(oh I forgot to mention that when we exited the court it was past 7 and was full pitch darkness) the cell wud not be visible to anyone and moreover it has been 5 minutes only..But alas we met with a “ Case of vanishing Cell”. ( I won’t say “missing” ,becoz it sort of vanished…….and yes Ms”R” if u r reading this , your case is also similar but your story is for some other time) Yes , my friends Mr “A” had now lost 2 new cells in 2 months of coming to Delhi…… The story doesn’t end here but before moving on point to be noted is that “A” had again lost his new cell in the first week of September……………..

Next in line comes the incident of the ATM card sucking machine…..Now “A” with the sole intention of shopping something(don’t remember what but that’s not important) went to Canara Bank ATM to get some cash.Such are the stars of our “A” that even the machine, after giving him the money he desired ,refused to give him his card back…..No matter what he did the machine was not rattled nor was it intimated by his threats…..Eventually after talking to some people there and some bank officials, who assured him that his card will be safely delivered to a nearest bank branch by the next official who opens the machine ,he returned to Hamdard ,sullen faced.

Now he did follow up the case with the bank for many days only to be reassured that he will get the card anyday now….even when he wanted to block the atm card he was advised against it …..So he waited till 2day.

Now 2day was special because it was the first day we went to office after training….But when he checked his account in office, he was dismayed to know that about 15,000 rs were missing from his account in 3 transactions on the same day (4^th oct.)…..So 2day our beloved Mr”A” blocked his card , filed an FIR and is now thinking of going to consumer court……Again point to be noted is that this incident happened in the first week of October…..

This habit of our friend to lose almost half his salary to absurd things in the first week of the month has now become legendary. In fact we have now proposed that he be given only half his salary…anyway he will be losing his other half…hehe

To people reading this come on lets pray for this disturbed soul Mr”A” …Let him have some good fortune so that I don’t have to make an entry to this blog again…..lets hope he finds his money back too…..Amen