Me @ My Best:

We were enjoying after placing our orders at various places in the food court of a multiplex.It was a post movie dinner plan so few who enjoyed movie were looking at the eating as a icing on the perfect outing. The other lot with thoughts like “Why the hell did I decide to come for this crap?” was looking at eating option as let at least this be the enjoyable part of outing.

Everybody was in their world when suddenly a health conscious me poked me and reminded me “Dry fruits to be bought! (After watching Dashvidaniya, I to had started maintaining a ‘Things to Do List’)”

I stood up suddenly and then practical" me inside reminded “Boss, Do you have money?(This "practical" me: I don’t know who trained him or where he got trained always poses a wrong question and in such a way that……….)”.This suddenly posed question made me sit down again.

Seeing this, my friend asked me “What happened?”

I replied with a sad face “Nothing, thought to buy dry fruits from Big Bazaar but not having money right now (A must clarification: I do have money sometime, yeah its altogether different story that sometime is a really very odd time.).”

My friend promptly replied “Ohhh, take it from me& you can return it later” and handed over 200 bucks along with a coupon worth 110 with something Big written on it.

I asked him “What is it?”

He said “It’s a cash voucher I got somewhere, you try it out hopefully will work in Big Bazaar”

With a toothy smile I said “Okays.”

With dreams of saving 100 bucks I started for Big Bazaar.

I went inside got the pack of dry fruit and came to billing counter.

I handed him the packet and he passed it through label scanner and said “135”

I handed him the coupon and started looking for twenty five rupees in my wallet.

In the mean time the person at the counter was having a curious look at the coupon, turning it upside down, turning it. After a couple of minutes of exercise he said to me “Sir , Yeh chalega nahin (Sir , It’s not valid here).”

I was like “What?” as if a tree had fallen on my brand new Mercedes.

I took the coupon back and for the first time had a close look at it. It had Big printed on it in a big way being an engineer I applied my engineering knowledge of LOGIC and said to him “Are ispe to Big likha he(It has got big printed on it)”

He again had a look at it and said “Sorry Sir but it’s not acceptable here”

With agony of shattering of dreams of saving 100 bucks I started towards food court with a desire to catch my friend who had given this coupon to me.

As I reached food court I asked him “Are yeh to chala hi nahin? (It did not work)”

He started laughing and as everybody got to know about it I had become a centre of attraction of our outing.

As they say you always have a scope to improve your best performance same was true for me too, my best was yet to come.

The dominoz outlet had started blinking our order no. 150.

I volunteered and said “I will get it” and started walking towards the counter.

I handed over the Pizza boy bill and was standing there with an attitude.

The Pizza boy also took the bill and started walking towards the kitchen suddenly he haulted and turned back towards counter and said to me “Sir, this is a Big bazzar bill.”

And I know no need to tell what would have happened when I went to the table to collect the real bill.

That's me still hoping to deliver better.