PHONE CALLS BETTER NOT COME!

(i) When I wake up with the call earliest in the morning from my maid saying that she won’t be coming due to some reason. Doesn’t matter the reasons are genuine or not, the unambiguous message it convey is, she is not on her way and I just realize that I need to make my way to kitchen and household chores. Worst, if it is a working day!

(ii) You have a “right hand” in your office, without whom you need to put a lot of effort to run the show. Then while driving to office, you get a “Good morning” from him in your cell, accompanied by the information about his grandson’s ‘Annual Day’ that he is planning to attend along with the rest of the family. You hardly have any choice to make your morning “Good” which was already starting to turn anything but good.

(iii) You are busy like hell in office, say during a Parliament Session concentrating on a “Star Question” when you get a call from the driver of your kid’s school bus, “….nobody’s at the place to receive your kid and I’m taking your ward back to school, please collect him from the school at the earliest possible”. Now it’s immaterial to find out why the lady who goes always to receive him didn’t go. You are some 30 km away from your kid’s school and you need to rush………rush to your Boss or make some hurried calls to your husband or anyone of the vicinity. Whatever, it raises your BP, that’s for sure until you arrange some way out.

(iv) If you are a writer waiting for the Editor’s call and then the call comes from the Secretary of the Editor……“the editor has read your manuscript carefully and he really appreciates your work, but sorry we’re running short of space, maybe better luck next time”.

(v) “Madam we have a great offer of free talktime upto 200 minuites if you go for the Plan-I or else Plan –II offers you the facility of …..”. To hell with your facility, though this call is of course not at all harmful & shocking, but how many times you can hear about these offers? They are already making you sick.

(vi) Somebody is in ICU and you are waiting for a call from someone who is there in the hospital as an attendant. Every passing moment is crucial and a question of life and death. Then the phone rings, without even bothering to see the caller’s number you grab it as quickly as possible……….“Good afternoon, I’m calling for XYZ Bank, are you interested for personal loan or free credit card……..”. You may actually feel like throwing the cell phone itself.

(vii) You are waiting for a call from your “Special someone” and then instead, a call comes from the irritating colleague, who is in a mood for a long chit-chat. It has two repercussions. First, you need to reply back atleast whatever the person is asking to save your etiquette, no matter how annoyed you are. Second and most harmful, your special someone might have tried to call you and found your phone ‘engaged’. It’s so awful!

Well……….there can be many more situations like this. I’ve just written whatever brushing my mind while I sit here to write this!

Suppose you get up early morning with your phone ringing, conveying you the message that you’ve just won a lottery of some lakhs and you need to do the needful to accept the prize money! Well, if it happens, you may jump in joy or you may suspect it as something fake depending on your nature and the nature of the call. The truth is, it doesn’t happen in reality. But on the contrary, we keep on getting some calls, many calls in reality which we wish, better not come our way! They check your nerve and drive you crazy. Here are some of these:

(i) When I wake up with the call earliest in the morning from my maid saying that she won’t be coming due to some reason. Doesn’t matter the reasons are genuine or not, the unambiguous message it convey is, she is not on her way and I just realize that I need to make my way to kitchen and household chores. Worst, if it is a working day!

(ii) You have a “right hand” in your office, without whom you need to put a lot of effort to run the show. Then while driving to office, you get a “Good morning” from him in your cell, accompanied by the information about his grandson’s ‘Annual Day’ that he is planning to attend along with the rest of the family. You hardly have any choice to make your morning “Good” which was already starting to turn anything but good.

(iii) You are busy like hell in office, say during a Parliament Session concentrating on a “Star Question” when you get a call from the driver of your kid’s school bus, “….nobody’s at the place to receive your kid and I’m taking your ward back to school, please collect him from the school at the earliest possible”. Now it’s immaterial to find out why the lady who goes always to receive him didn’t go. You are some 30 km away from your kid’s school and you need to rush………rush to your Boss or make some hurried calls to your husband or anyone of the vicinity. Whatever, it raises your BP, that’s for sure until you arrange some way out.

(iv) If you are a writer waiting for the Editor’s call and then the call comes from the Secretary of the Editor……“the editor has read your manuscript carefully and he really appreciates your work, but sorry we’re running short of space, maybe better luck next time”.

(v) “Madam we have a great offer of free talktime upto 200 minuites if you go for the Plan-I or else Plan –II offers you the facility of …..”. To hell with your facility, though this call is of course not at all harmful & shocking, but how many times you can hear about these offers? They are already making you sick.

(vi) Somebody is in ICU and you are waiting for a call from someone who is there in the hospital as an attendant. Every passing moment is crucial and a question of life and death. Then the phone rings, without even bothering to see the caller’s number you grab it as quickly as possible……….“Good afternoon, I’m calling for XYZ Bank, are you interested for personal loan or free credit card……..”. You may actually feel like throwing the cell phone itself.

(vii) You are waiting for a call from your “Special someone” and then instead, a call comes from the irritating colleague, who is in a mood for a long chit-chat. It has two repercussions. First, you need to reply back atleast whatever the person is asking to save your etiquette, no matter how annoyed you are. Second and most harmful, your special someone might have tried to call you and found your phone ‘engaged’. It’s so awful!

Well……….there can be many more situations like this. I’ve just written whatever brushing my mind while I sit here to write this!

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