The "LOST" Case!

Well i'm back guys after a two month break and guess what i'm here to tell you something that just happened yesterday night.

Even though we are amongst the so called elite breed of software engineers,we still have to work in awkward hours sometimes(there's a lot more to it & i'll come back to it at some other time). On such an unpleasant & awkward day that was yesterday; i somehow finished my work and decided to have some stuff for my tummy before i leave for my home and it was a already few ticks past midnight.

So after i completed my second dinner for the night with my (small)gang i was returning back from the Foodcourt when i saw one of my team mates hasting(or if i might add-running) towards the food court with a strange expression on her face(here i'll take a chance to admit that i'm poor at times to understand feminine emotions which according to them are always obvious-must say you have devised a very complex algorithm indeed Mr.God and we men are still as clueless as Adam) So i gave her a light smile(a smirk rather) and to my amazement her speed got increased and i just wondered how worse my day can get even after the sun is shining at the opposite end of the world!

And before i could bite my lips further i saw one more team-mate running(i repeat running) in the same direction as that girl went and my filmy mind had already thought 8 possible scenarios(dont ask me those now....what can be more filmy than this-a girl with a strange expression hurrying out somewhere in the middle of the night and a guy running few meters behind her as if his pants were on fire and had to jump in the pool before any "real" damage happens) before i finally caught him & asked what the matter was!

The poor fellow caught enough breath to tell us "She forgot her purse and mobile in the Foodcourt" and within no time the "veer jawaan" restarted his marathon.I wonder how many times does it gets noticed if a guy has lost his wallet-it feels so bad you wont have any takers even though you'll be genuinly troubled(i'm talking about guys here if that was not yet obvious) whereas it becomes an issue even if a handkerchief is lost from the opposite sex(even though how pathetic she might be in looks/size/attitude/....../...../what ever!!)


Haan...so there we were-i never interfere in matters where i'm not required and this was certainly one of those so we kept walking and withing a few minutes we were out of the company campus and were waiting by our cabs thinking when would the couple return. And when you are out there killing your time with such a topic happening around-you always start speculating and thats exactly what we started doing and that lasted for nice long 25 minutes before our CID team(the "lost" couple) returned.

The girl just came and sat next to me with her head down and the guy looked so pale as if all his adrenaline was freezed in the cold winter breeze. Signs were obvious but it looked a lot serious(serious than it really was-a typical feminine trait). I obviously cant stay mum in such an instance so i asked her "What did they say"
NO ANSWER
But it atleast broke the ice and all started talking and the round of questions started. The girl was really "smart"-she had already blocked her ATM card by the time she sat in the car and her credit card was not yet blocked only because she couldn't remember the credit card number!

She finally said " i went to food court at 10 and then ordered 3 dishes-i had two plates in my hand.........." phew!!! oh gosh i wondered how irrelevant can it get even at such times! She continues "Then i came back and we were doing masti (there she goes again) in my cubicle......bla blah.......and then we were watching Pyar ke side effects when i realised i had lost my purse"

Damn....she was watching a movie with our "veer jawan" in the office in their cubicle-thats sick man! And secondly after good 150 minutes the silly girl realizes that she was missing something! Here i must add that i'm flabbergasted(yep i'm not using this word just like that-man i really am!) that she being a girl didnt realize that her mobile was not with her(or in her hands for that matter!)

Anyways she was having a doubt on the House keeping guys(These poor souls are mostly doing all the cleaning work and gardening stuff in our organization and are sternly inspected both on entry and exit) and yet they were in the seat of allegation. I came to their rescue like a defence advocate "Hey you cant blame those-they wont do that-afterall somebody will always point out a housekeeping guy picking up a ladies purse from the food court"(House keeping guys have a neat dress-code and hence are easily recognisable)

So the time was ripe for one more allegation! "If it were only infy employees then we would have got the lost stuff by now but now we also have the BPO staff coming here and i seriously think they can be the ones behind it-see the quality of people coming in from the BPO now a days yaar" said one of the guys and i also agreed on the latter point.

But women should always have the last say and this law didn't cease to exist even at this moment as our lady said "Someone from our team is playing a prank with me" Silly she! Why would anybody want to stay awake in the middle of the night after the horrible day's work!! Then suddenly she realises "Wait a min...i was at ruby's desk hey it might be there....IS SOMEONE STILL IN THE OFFICE??!!!"

Our "veer jawan" finally recalled that a guy was staying back and did the honours of calling him and confirming the "news" of her belongings being safe and "untouched"!!

Well the only positive thing that happened for me is that we got a party from her today for what happened last night.

Phew!! This is how silly they can get but that what makes them fun as well-Like them,Love them or Hate them....you just can't Ignore them...can you??!! :)