For over a couple of decades now, Vinod and I meet at Minerva Coffee Shop at Punjagutta, talk about stuff, sometimes about our writing, sometimes about books and sometimes about other writers. We eat bajjis and drink coffee and off we go after that. More often or not there will be some cray jokes that make us crack up in laughter.
This time we had told the waiter to get us bajjis and then coffee - a normal order. The bajjis took a long time in coming and soon after they arrived the steward rushed to us.
Shall I get the coffee?' he asked.
Vinod was irritated.
'After some time,' he said.
The steward looked confused.
'After sometime,' I repeated. 'It will take us a while to finish these bajjis.'
He nodded and withdrew.
'Maybe,' we thought, looking how to create a situation here. 'We should have asked him like tow helpless morons. 'But if you get coffeee now, it will get cold. Because we will either have to eat bajjis or drink the coffee. If we drink coffee, the bajjis will get cold. Unless we eat bajjis and drink coffee together which may not be a great idea. What do you think we should do?'
All earnestness.
Maybe then, the steward might understand our predicament and help us poor souls out by saying - maybe you can drink your coffee after the bajjis! Which is what we normally do. And which is what he should have suggested to us if he was doing his job well.
We did think we could write about many such happenings in the day when we meet people like our steward Just lay it all bare and see if he can help us after understanding our problem!
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