Tuesday, September 25, 2007

C'est la vie

I am a firm believer of "try not to do more than what you absolutely you have to" especially when it means less work for me. Based on this philosophy, I have been postponing washing my car for the past three months. After all, one rain was all it would take to wash my car to a spanking new (okay, at least passable) condition.

However, after months of no rain, I began to feel sorrier and sorrier for my poor car as it slowly started changing color from its original royal black to a rather bedraggled beige. Then, last week, they said on radio that it was going to rain starting Wednesday - yaaay - moksha for my car finally!

I waited and waited. No rain on Wednesday morning. Or on Wednesday noon. Or on Wednesday evening. Thursday morning and afternoon continued to maintain the rain-free status (stupid weather.com of course continued to show cloud icons with cute little raindrops). Finally, I knew there was only one way to make it rain. Accepting defeat, on Thursday evening, I drove my car to the car-wash. My car came out looking brand new.

On Friday morning, as soon as I parked my car in the open space outside my office building, it started to rain. Yeah, it *always* rains the day after I wash my car. All those people who marry off donkeys/trees etc. in order to attract rain should simply give a wash to my car instead. The higher the chance of my car becoming totally muddy and getting back the same beige look as before the car wash as a result of the rain, the greater the probability of it raining becomes.

Such is life!

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Today I was attending a technical presentation session at a techie conference happening out here. Some ten minutes into the presentation, someone's cell phone began to ring discreetly. I idly wondered why people could not have enough courtesy to turn off/silence their cell phones before coming to attend such events. And then smugly thought that I would not have to worry about silencing my phone as hardly anyone calls me during work hours.

I had not even stopped being smug when my cell phone started ringing. With the ring tone at a volume about 10 times higher than that of the earlier cell phone. I almost jumped out of my skin. As I fumbled with my phone to hit the silence button, about three-fourths of the room turned to stare at me. If only I could have dug a hole in the ground and jumped into it!

Talk about perfect timing! How do I always manage to get super bulbs whenever I begin to feel too smug?

9 comments:

Altoid said...

C est la vie indeed! :)

I know some people are really busy and cant get off their emails even for a minute, but it irks me (either when I am the speaker or one among the audience) to see people constantly typing/being online. I mean cant a person be away for some 45 mins to an hour, in their work schedule?

rads said...

Don't ask! I absolutely get annouyed with ringing cell phones. If I were there, I'd be the 1st one to glare at you :P

Jaya said...

This was funny. I generally set my cellphone on vibrate mode when I am in a meeting. The other day, I forgot and we all heard a "beep-beep" sound. Withing fraction of seconds, 5 more such sounds came and all heads in the conference room turned towards me. I sheepily turned off my cell. While doing so, I realised I got 6 junk text messages in 30 sec! Can you believe it?

SK said...

LOL, I can relate to both.

Car wash - I am still waiting for the rain to give one to mine. ;--) Dont give up so soon. haha.

Cell phone - I leave it in my cube, so when it rings when I am not there, I am not present to share the glares. I always seem to forget to change the modes. At home it is in vibrate and at work loud. :--(

nourish-n-cherish said...

Ha ha! Life throws these moments at you every so often!

My car used to yearn for a wash too. I recently bought a hose and washed the car - it turned out to be a family event with daughter playing in the water, and all of us looking beat and wet, but happy!

Try it!

Archana Bahuguna said...

He he that was funny ... :-) I think we have some kind of a jinx that the worst thing happens when just once in a blue moon, we forgot to take care of it! :-(
Better luck next time!

JugHead said...

Poor You :)
Keep it on vibrate all the time now onwards

cm chap said...

Ha Ha.. It happens for me as well... At those times "Why only to me feeling" sucks...

BTW.. so by any chance ur comparing ur car to a donkey? Thats not fair... Ha Ha...

Similar exp of mine... below
http://cm-chap-chillout.blogspot.com/2007/07/why-only-to-me.html

http://cm-chap-chillout.blogspot.com/2007/06/monday-morning-blues.html

Archana said...

Altoid - I think it is just their way of warding off boredom :-D! But people who act like civilization as we know it will collapse if they are away from their phone/blackberry/laptop for even one second need to be kicked!

Rads - don't worry, about 30 other people did the honors :-(!

Joy - Oh man, so many junk messages and getting glares for that - that's awful!!

SK - lol - has it rained yet? Oh man, that irritates me no end. After about the third time of ringing, I generally start fantasizing about picking up the offending cell phone and flinging it out of the building :-P!

Saumya - ah, me stays in apt - no car washing port :-(!

Archana - ya, tell me about it!

Tintin - Welcome aboard! I probably will - I have learnt my lesson now!

Cm-chap - Welcome aboard! Cha cha - my car is way better than a donkey 0:-)! So you ride escalators backwards, huh :-P?