A story related by Shantanu Basu on FB, mistakes and all. Thought readers may be tickled pink. A little humour specially when true never hurts.
A TALE IN MUMBAI Our colleague Rohan is number one kamchor (shirker). He avoids all office work but he is master in buttering our MD, Mr Ganesh Chadda. He does all work whatever Boss orders. Apart from Boss’s official work, he does all his personal household work like depositing son’s college fee, buying daughter’s dance school dress, taking Boss’s wife to shopping etc. Rohan also does Boss’s car servicing job, complete son’s project work everything whatever Boss says. So Rohan is number one favourite of MD Saheb. This way Rohan got all promotions very first. We are only repenting our fate becoz Boss is not happy with our job. Rohan has a beautiful time. One day, we got sudden news about MD saheb’s mother’s demise. We all ran to his house with a very sad face as if our mother has expired! Surprisingly Rohan was not to be seen anywhere in Boss’s Bungalow. Everybody was speculating how Rohan is missing the chance to score. We all arranged for vehicle furnished with garlands and Boss’s mother was taken to crematorium. What a fate! There’s about 16 bodies lying in the queue for electric burning. I calculated, each body will at least take 4 to 5 hrs to burn. So may be tomorrow we may go back home. Boss was red faced and temperament very bitter. Suddenly, the 2nd body started sitting. We all ran helter skelter. To our utter surprise we discovered it was none other than Rohan. He said to MD Saheb, Sir our number is 2nd, I was waiting from morning, lying as a dead body. We were all stunned to see his level of buttering, here also he scored century. Roland. Toronto.
