Met Hub-e's colleague and wife at Great India Place last weekend. Their question bowled me clean. "Why don't you ever come to any office parties???" And I asked myself, Why? Why doesn't Hub-e take me along to any of the parties lately? Well, not coz I aint pretty, Mind It!!! I am a very beautiful woman!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he he he ..... But coz he is scared that I will pull a "Digo" if I go. For those of you who donot understand this word, let me tell you that this is a very important part of our vocabulary. So, how do I manage to pull a "Digo"?
Incident 1 : Hub-e's manager in MS was a great guy from IIT named Digambarnath and in our conversations at home, Hub-e would address him as "Digo" only. So, we met at a wedding party and poor Digo......
Me: Hi Digo!!! How are you?
Digo(with a surprised look) : Hmmmm .... Ummmmm ... aaaahhhhh ...... uuuuummmm ....Ffffffine
Hub-e and others : Ummmmmmm ........ (with eyes wide open)
Me: So, Digo, hows your wife? You didnt bring her along?
Digo(with a surprised look) : Hmmmm .... Ummmmm ... aaaahhhhh ...... uuuuummmm .... She has gone to our home town
Hub-e and others : Ummmmmmm ........ (with eyes wide open)
Me: Digo,do you like biriyani???
Digo(with a surprised look) : Hmmmm .... Ummmmm ... aaaahhhhh ...... uuuuummmm ....Yes
Hub-e and others : Ummmmmmm ........ (with eyes wide open)
Me: So, Digo, what do you think is the reason for MS stocks going down???
Digo(with a surprised look) : Hmmmm .... Ummmmm ... aaaahhhhh ...... uuuuummmm .... Iiiiiii don't know for sure......... ummmmmmmmmmmm
Hub-e and others slowly moved away.
Within seconds, Digo also moved away!
Moral of the story: Nobody in his entire life had ever called Digambarnath as "Digo". And nobody ever did, after me, not even Hub-e in our daily conversations. Hub-e had to change his job. (Though not for this reason, what the heck!!! Fiction is better than truth)
Incident 2: We have a very cute looking Pug in our apartments, named "Tipu". He is not such a great friend of Spock yet, his owner and Hub-e are very pally pally. Again, what to do with my Hub-e. He insists on giving second names to all the people he meets. Hence, the owner's name became Hyder Ali in our daily conversation. And poor me, got so used to his second name, that I forgot his real one. (see, again, it isn't my fault, hub-e is responsible for it)
Mrs. Owner: Hi! How are you? How is Spock?
Me: Hi. Am doing great. Spock is fine too! Where is Tipu?
Mrs. Owner: Oh he is at home with my daughter.
Me: Okay. So, Hyder Ali hasn't come home yet?
Mrs. Owner (eyes looking like laddoos) : I beg your pardon?
Me: I meant, hasn't Hyder come back from office?
(Hub-e gives me a hard kick on my ankle and Mrs. Owner looks at him with bewildered eyes, silently questioning whether I have lost it coz of my pregnancy)
Hub-e: Hey, nice meeting you! Have to rush back home. Urgent meeting. B'bye
Me still havent figured it out ......... but eventually I did. Hence, I again pulled a "Digo".
There are so many more of such instances but I guess the writing space isn't enough.
For the next party, he has agreed to take me along, only if I promise that I wouldn't pull a Digo! Well, can't promise anything ........
(Disclaimer: All events, names and characters mentioned above are true to my knowledge and bear resemblance to people who are still living and after my blood.)
(Another Disclaimer (on gun's point) : Hub-e doesnt have the habit of giving "second" names to people. It is just his creative juices flowing and his good sense of humour. And we all are stupids!)