Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Just a Terrible Day

I returned home exhuasted to Houston, from a 11 day work cum vacation trip of Los Angeles, where I slept less than 5 hours a day on an average. The last thing I was expecting was this;
Read the 6 hour drama captured in 15 minutes of office chat.

Arun Rajamani/... Dude Mr. india killed me yday....
Arun Rajamani/... it was probably my worst day ever
Subramanya Pr... what happened
Arun Rajamani/... on phone..hold on a sec
Subramanya Pr... ok
Arun Rajamani/... i am expecting a call back...but I should tell u Mr.
India's antics
Subramanya Pr... okie..this will entertain me
Arun Rajamani/... Our man doesn't know how to use toilet papers...so guess
what /...the first thing...he kills my toilet flush
Subramanya Pr... 1 sec
Subramanya Pr... phone
Arun Rajamani/... I got freaked out as water started coming out and seeping
below the door
Arun Rajamani/... oh ok
Subramanya Pr... yuuck!!!!!
Arun Rajamani/... luckily it was only paper and water...but it still messed
up the bathrroom
Subramanya Pr... disgusting dude
Arun Rajamani/... luckily the emergency staff was on 24 hrs call...so they
came and fixed it
Arun Rajamani/... Our man was already having some problem with his leg..some
infection or something...so he was doing major nakhra
Subramanya Pr... yuck!!!!what did mr.india have to say!
Arun Rajamani/... Wasn't even putting effor to clean the restroom...I sorta
had to force him
Subramanya Pr... oh man!this is just awful...
Subramanya Pr... how can he do that ur doing him a favor
Arun Rajamani/... ok..then he went to take bath
Arun Rajamani/... I specifically mentioned him to be careful with the
curtains...
Arun Rajamani/... and guess waht he came out flooding the bathrrom again...
Arun Rajamani/... again we had to spend time to clean the bathroom
Subramanya Pr... he is total idiot!
Arun Rajamani/... he is...man
Subramanya Pr... did he not realise that the water is leaking without the curtain!
Subramanya Pr... its obvious!
Subramanya Pr... I mean he has lived here for a few months now!duh!
Arun Rajamani/... then this idiot takes of his shirt and cavorts around the
house in boxers
Subramanya Pr... i am laughing right now
Arun Rajamani/... he starts to crash on my couch...I told him to go use my
bed instead
Subramanya Pr... but i am feeling disgusted actually
Arun Rajamani/... atleast I can wash my bed sheets
Subramanya Pr... totally...
Subramanya Pr... u shud have given him a sleeping bag
Subramanya Pr... and a sheet
Arun Rajamani/... I finally cooked for him..and fed him and put him to bed
Arun Rajamani/... it was 11:00 pm by then....
Arun Rajamani/... he was neither apologetic for his actions nor grateful for
mine....
Subramanya Pr... what an idiot...
Arun Rajamani/... ..and not to mentioned he changed the thermostat to 80
degrees....and I was wondering why AC is not working
Arun Rajamani/... His BPM's (Burps per minute) were kicking in as usual ..
Subramanya Pr... oh thats just bad!!!very bad
Subramanya Pr... what happened to his keys?
Arun Rajamani/... hold hold..the plot thickens
Subramanya Pr... theres more?!!!!!!
Arun Rajamani/... oh his lock was changed becos some idiot in office broke
the key inside the lock
Arun Rajamani/... ....Shobhana's ladies had kinda left my place messy..
Arun Rajamani/... My kitchen sink stopped draining very soon...so I had to
again call emergency maintenance
Arun Rajamani/... this time they could not rectify the kictchen sink
Subramanya Pr... oh man...y do people do this...ur always extra careful when
ur at someone else's place
Subramanya Pr... so they have to replace ur garbage disposal in the kitchen
sink?
Arun Rajamani/... yup..so i lost the use of kitchen sink and stopped cooking
Arun Rajamani/... not the disposal..but somewhere downstream there is a
clog
Subramanya Pr... I'm sure they dumped rice or something there
Subramanya Pr... stupid ppl man
Arun Rajamani/... so anyways..I still managed to cook...but just after
cooking, I broke a glass bowl on the floor..and it shattered all over
Arun Rajamani/... I spent some time cleaning, vaccuuming after that...and
cut my finger
Subramanya Pr... dude u have had a rotten day...might as well havemissed ur
flight and stayed in LA
Arun Rajamani/... yup....other things too....
Arun Rajamani/... I then went to the restroom only to find that all toilet
paper is exhausted...shobhanas ladies had used up all the reserve paper in
the cabinet !!!
Arun Rajamani/... ..and finally after everything I finally settled down to
check my mails and internet wont work,.and I had to spend another 15 min to configure my wireless
Subramanya Pr... how many stayed in ur place?
Arun Rajamani/... I think 5
Subramanya Pr... its gets from bad to worse to worst....
Arun Rajamani/... it was terrible man
Subramanya Pr... did they drape themselves in TP or what!
Arun Rajamani/... ..I finally spoke to Liar Liar for a while and went to bed
close to 1:00 am....
Arun Rajamani/... my sleep deprivation continues !!!
Subramanya Pr... Today will be dfferent!
Subramanya Pr... go home early and sleep..
Arun Rajamani/... this morning again I spent 2 hours helping Mr. India with
his apt etc
Subramanya Pr... dude ur great...
Arun Rajamani/... ..I have a 3 hr spanish class from 7-10 pm tonite....
Subramanya Pr... have lot of patience
Arun Rajamani/... I am throught with this IDIOT man..
Subramanya Pr... to go and help again this morning after what happened
Arun Rajamani/... I had to...cos he was in my house, and Jeff expected me to
help him out
Arun Rajamani/... thats my sad and sorry tale in short !!!
Arun Rajamani/... hope things r better in LA
Subramanya Pr... oh well!hopefully it will get better
Subramanya Pr... take the week to settle back in and rest...
Subramanya Pr... do a rahul for a week and u will be allright
Arun Rajamani/... i think i should

7 comments:

Anarkist said...

Sorry, but no sympathies for you my friend. Your friends only mistake seems to be that he's "Fresh off the Boat" and not "Americanized" enough to your changed tastes and sensibilities. Give that guy a break now will ya? Even you and me were as, if not more clumsy than this guy. For this you are calling him "Mr. India". You are such a desist.

Point 5 said...

@Anarkist...This guy is not "FOB", but he seems to be still on the boat :))
This person has lived in US for more than 3 months, has lived in europe for more than a month and has travelled a bit in south east.
It doesn't take much time to learn and adapt, that is if you really care to learn and adapt.

PLD said...

sucks man. guess visas shd now come with an audio guide (or maybe a dvd with flashy stuff on the cover) on how to use TP, at the least. The Mr. India part was a bit nasty though :). Whats the deal with the other pseudonyms, do I get any private info? ;)

PLD said...

@Anarkist, if someone was helping you settle, would you go take a big dump on his floor and walk away?

Anonymous said...

hahahahaha....what a day..... who were these people you were helping? students? or obligatory friends? and i dont know about him, but if i was new to a place and did not know about stuff, i would ASK first and take a dump LATER...

and were YOU really as clumsy as Anarkist says you were?? :))
-- R.S.

Rohan Kumar said...

Much ado abt nothin really Pointy for a moment I thought you got layed off or something ..... silver lining it always could have been far worse ;)

Point 5 said...

@PLD..which pseudonymns are you talking about..will talk to you over the weekend and give u details

@R.S...just to make records clear, this person is not new to the place....he has been arnd for 4 months..i would put him under obligatory friends category

@Rohan..And you really thought I would be blogging after being laid off...whats with inactivity on ur blog ? Hope u r enjoying 20/20..