Escape from Embarassment
been quite sometime since i have blogged...was stuck with work? not really...i dont know...did have some work...
but something that hpnd today that compelled me to write...
i generally come to office early arnd 8am and go for breakfast arnd 9.30...and did the same today too...went to the restaurant, ordered a masala dosa (was bored of eating the same set dosa daily....) and after having given the order i remembered that i forgot to fill....not my bike...but my purse :)....i dint have cash...and card was accepted only for bill more than a Rs 100...and i dont think i can eat 5 dosas to make it hundred or even if i have 2 milkshakes it would come only to arnd 60 - 70 bucks....now this was really very embarassing...and i cant leave for the atm now...so called my roommate...we both work in the same company but different projects...
a long call....kept ringing...felt like ages....and he wasnt picking up...then i rmbrd he goes to gym in the morning so probably on the way to office...but watever...i needed help...atlast i rmbrd a colleague of mine had come to office by then...and luckily too i had his number....called him up and asked him to comeover...this was again another embarassment...u can ask ur frens...they wudnt mind or rather you wudnt mind asking them...but colleagues...
but i guess this embarassment was better than the one that could have been if i had noticed that i had no cash after the waiter had brought the bill...
(a big sigh of relief....................)
but something that hpnd today that compelled me to write...
i generally come to office early arnd 8am and go for breakfast arnd 9.30...and did the same today too...went to the restaurant, ordered a masala dosa (was bored of eating the same set dosa daily....) and after having given the order i remembered that i forgot to fill....not my bike...but my purse :)....i dint have cash...and card was accepted only for bill more than a Rs 100...and i dont think i can eat 5 dosas to make it hundred or even if i have 2 milkshakes it would come only to arnd 60 - 70 bucks....now this was really very embarassing...and i cant leave for the atm now...so called my roommate...we both work in the same company but different projects...
a long call....kept ringing...felt like ages....and he wasnt picking up...then i rmbrd he goes to gym in the morning so probably on the way to office...but watever...i needed help...atlast i rmbrd a colleague of mine had come to office by then...and luckily too i had his number....called him up and asked him to comeover...this was again another embarassment...u can ask ur frens...they wudnt mind or rather you wudnt mind asking them...but colleagues...
but i guess this embarassment was better than the one that could have been if i had noticed that i had no cash after the waiter had brought the bill...
(a big sigh of relief....................)
posted by Sara at 12:05 AM
6 Comments:
i did this twice recently man ... that too in Jamshedpur ... that guy doesnt even accept cards :D
Hehe, this is most embarrassing embarrassment for me. For this reason I make it thousand times sure that I have 'this' security.
But you made life difficult for me by making me think of set dosa and masala dosa, oh, how much I miss them.
(The other problem in India is that you can never be sure of your cards being accepted at any place)
he he it seems it happens to everybody at one point of time or othter
mowgli - Jamshedpur is a village man ;)
satya - ya...its true...not every place accepts cards...none of the restaurants in Forum accept card but luckily they are pay and eat kinds so u wud know in advance if u have cash or not ;)
dosa? well ask mowgli...he is the specialist :)
abhinav - this mite be the last for me...shall ensure that i always have some backup hidden somewhere in my purse
wow, this has never happened to me. yay me. me very careful. i always check twice before leaving. and if i dont have money in my purse, i have money in my kinetic, as a back up. :P
its a village ... it doesnt have pot holes on roads ... everywhere there are huge trees and ratan tata is my neighbour ... hehe
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