A week after I was here and kind of settled to the temperature dip of 33 degrees from Mumbai to Basel, I decided to get a nice change of hairstyle to pep me up, what I call as being “Chamko”. After a super session and a happy me stepped out more confident and good looking than before, I hopped in the tram. Just a few stops later is the Novartis HQ. A group of 4 men and a woman, an American, let us call him John Doe, an American Desi {that’s what I call people of our origin who have settled for years in the big Apple}, – Krishnakant Gopalachary – rechristened as Kris in the U.S of A, 2 Indians – typical – Anil and Sunil, first time onsite project and a Chinese woman – So Su Mi who made me proud for my height, got in and this is what happened.
First the yappy So Su Mi hops in and lands her tiny tooh next to me. Next in John Doe with a gait of I own the world gets in with Kris and lastly Anil and Sunil both looking down enter.
So Su Mi in her shrill voice that pierced my ear and reached the tram driver, “Give me the bags….I can hold the bags.”
No one responded, John smiled at her while Kris greeted the others around mutedly just to gel in the Europeans too, Anil and Sunil stared at me thinking, desi hai with a Burberry scarf and a Channel bag, wah!!
John in his Uncle Sam voice, “Hey Kris….where are we getting down, is it the same place by the river…ah forgot the name”…tries to give a thought.
John’s voice echoed as the uptight Swiss people not used to the US and India decibels raised their eye brows.
So Su Me added, “No it was a café you are talking about.” No one heeded.
Kris adjusting his tie (in sub 0 temperature the dude was just in his suit), “ah that…oh I know it all, it’s just here after the next two stops.” His accent gave me goosebumps so did Anil and Sunil’s stares.
“What is it that we had last year at that place? Ahhh the cheese dish, was awesome!” the man with the power spoke again.
“Raclette!” the shrill voice got ignored again.
“Flammkuchen…” the man who will make a difference someday spoke.
The chances of Anil and Sunil’s next designation rise was directly proportional to their silence or so it seemed.
And the last stop announced, “Kleinhüningen”
I picked my booty and turned to the shrill voice, “hey you have got in right tram but opposite direction, get down at Marktplatz and the restaurant is Movenpick….don’t forget to try the fondue….the Swiss cheese specialty of winters. 🙂
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We all meet people, see things in our daily life….I interpreted a very mundane scenario my way. Hope you like it….a slice of my life 🙂
Nice post Shweta 🙂
thanks babe 🙂
Good one Shweta
thank you Sandeepa 🙂
Interesting conversation! Hope they got to the right place.
i hope so too, the man would have made a difference by then hehe 🙂
Nice post 🙂
thank you.
Well ,its a peppered slice ! if not, then you just sprinkled it all over 😀
Glad we were not together at that time or would have rolled down laughing and instead of you writing it, the man who will make a difference someday , would have made it by now through his writing about us ! I am already giggling 😀
Loved it as the humor is more in our ..er.. your mind and the interpretation .. BTW cheese fondue are my favorite any variety 🙂 Yum .
now I can so visualize both of us there laughing embarrassing others around oblivious in our own world bestie 🙂 just tried a different genre this time…a slice of my life…well you already know how i laugh on such situations…been long we had such a laugh together hain na 🙂 come over will treat you at Movenpick 🙂
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A mirthful conversation interspersed with the foreign language had me in splits! An amusing post!
thank you so much Sunita, really glad you liked it 🙂
thats some real situational humor :)..loved it
thank you Sweta 🙂
Humorous post! Loved it ..
thank you Arun 🙂
Loving your humorous write up! BTW Cheese fondue are my fav too. Cannot have enough of them.
thank you so much, happy you liked it 🙂
Hahahaahahahahaa Simly superb ….. let us have more such slices 🙂
thank you Bhavik, happy ke tamne gamyun 🙂
Aww! Loved this slice of your life! Never tasted a ‘Fondue’, but I bet it can’t be better than this! 😀
I love such dissertation of innocuous scenes of day-to-day lives of people. A mundane scenario can be poignant with a story. It’s like peeping through a hidden window into someone’s life.
Don’t know what was funny, the boisterous Uncle Sam or the staring Desi. Great job, Shweta! 🙂
thank you…thank you Rakesh, moving away from dark for a change 🙂 really happy you liked it 🙂
You have a knack for humor too. You should try more. Great job!
lolol. Kris is something that caught my attention. Our names end up being short, like I know a guy who is Vis cos the white people cant say Vishwanathan 😛 😛 Vis is kind of cool n he is proud about it 😀
haha you bet Anoop even if they don’t like it do they have a choice 🙂 waise Vis is funny 🙂
Well, we need to perk things up a bit. We are rocking gals that way. Good to read you after a long gap. 🙂
absolutely Saru…we can find humor in anything, it is absolutely my pleasure to to have you read my work 🙂
ha ha loved reading that
thank you Megha 🙂
Some people, however much they travel, they always behave the same, no attempt to gel in! It was funny indeed.
so so agree Mridula…thank you so much for liking it 🙂
Ha ha! that was funny. Enjoyed the read and how you narrated 😛
Thank you Parul, happy happy you liked it 🙂
Life’s like that…..there is fun in it if you want to see it, find it….ism’t it Shweta. As I read you, I want to more of the lady who felt proud of her height….:)…..By the way, I love Burberry too….:)….Your characterization is so awesome…..I mean that’s how we look at others…..interpret them and their gestures, their way of speaking, their thoughts and attitudes….Again, a lovely post…:)
You know Sunaina before this site became sunshine and zephyr my blog name was lifes like that 🙂 Am so so happy you liked me in this genre too 🙂
Is that so…?!!! That’s so awesome. I am on the right track to know more about you….:)
absolutely…:)
That’s an interesting slice of your life Shweta. A picture of your new hairstyle along with the post wouldn’t have left me wondering about it. 🙂
I didn’t put it for the story would gain less importance against my charm lol….just kidding 🙂 it real fun to observe people this way 🙂
Ha ha ha…. would have loved to see their faces after you got off!!
hahah….you bet sir…a scene to remember 🙂