Sreejith R Kumar
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I’ve acquired a affirmation to make. I’m not likely a author. Oh! however I suppose you figured that out way back. I say this within the mild of a scary incident I had just a few days in the past. I met an previous good friend from college — oh, and I imply, ‘previous’ good friend, as a result of I simply couldn’t bear in mind his identify. After a pointless pretend-to-care dialog, (which one tends to have with ‘previous’ associates), he jokingly ended with, “Now it’s time so that you can retire”. This left me perplexed. Retire from what? I imply what do I precisely do? My profession could be precisely like a Rakhi Sawant script. Not something actually there. Anyway, I ended the dialog within the traditional approach you finish conversations with actually ‘previous’ associates whose names you’ll be able to’t bear in mind. I ended with, “Take care, boss”.
This stays probably the most under-utilised phrases within the English language, because it conveys the correct amount of familiarity and affection, with the added bonus of you don’t have to truly bear in mind the ‘previous’ good friend’s ‘rattling’ identify. Nonetheless, his parting shot stumped me, he requested if I may assist him to get a few tickets for the India Pakistan World Cup sport in October.
I felt like slapping him instantly. I felt I wanted to at the least name him some selection names. However since I simply couldn’t recall his authentic identify, I simply smiled and regarded on the heavens. Truthfully, I wasn’t ready for, any extended dialogue after, “Take care, boss”.
Take Care Boss, has a finality to it, just like the phrase ‘The Finish’. I imply what number of instances have you ever seen a film go ‘and yet one more factor’ after ‘The Finish’ credit score has rolled? I made some reputable excuse just like the ‘Lady Guides Group of Bhandup West, Mumbai’ had been felicitating me on the identical day. Now this was a whole bald lie. They had been felicitating me the subsequent day. No approach ‘Outdated good friend’ would know, since I used to be virtually 60% certain he wasn’t a 13-year-old lady within the Lady Information motion.
However that’s when the actual downside began. Throughout the subsequent 24 hours, I acquired inundated with calls, requests and calls for for the tickets to the India Pakistan conflict. I don’t understand how this occurred. Folks texting, insisted that I used to be the Chairman of the B.C.C.I. or on the very least vice-captain of India’s cricket group or that my father’s actual identify was Mr. Wankhede, or Mr. Feroz Shah Kotla, or maybe Mr. Chidambaram fondly recognized by his mates as ‘Chepauk’.
Folks I swear on all issues holy, which for me, at current, is my carpenter’s head, (that’s as a result of he’s nonetheless not accomplished the straightforward process of constructing one cupboard) — I’ve no reference to Indian cricket. I did as soon as work with ESPN Cricinfo in for about three minutes, within the latest previous. Oh, and I as soon as made 44 not out on one leg in a constructing competitors for youths underneath 12, which was as lately as final 12 months. I additionally sat subsequent to Ravi Shastri on a flight, seven years in the past. However that’s about it. So please don’t name or textual content me, and particularly, no emails. For me emails with out connected soiled photos will not be emails. Please depart me alone. Oh, and yet one more factor, ‘Take care, boss……..’ ‘The Finish’.
The author has devoted his life to communism. Although solely on weekends.