Well now you must be grumbling, and may be calling me an anti feminist because of my series called Female Ego but what to do, I keep coming across these types and I believe let me publish. Ok. Promise I will write one series on male ego too. Ok?
Well this incident happened a few years back in the office bus in which I was coming. My office, where I worked, was full of ladies. In fact I was the only insignificant male candidate in the entire office. Sometimes it used to make me feel so puny. Nonetheless that day we were waiting for the bus to move from office to home. The sun was beating down hard and it was too hot inside to sit properly.
Now there were four ladies sitting inside with me, let us call them A, B, C, and D. And one more lady E was sitting in the office who was also supposed to join us. For some reason she was getting late and A, B, C and D were progressively getting restless. So finally came a time when I suggested them to call up E to know the status of her return. God only knows why I suggested that. A flurry of chit-chats and PNPC began.
A-- Why should we call? It is her (E's) responsibility to keep us updated.
Me-- That is ok but may be she is in some work and not finding enough time to call us.
B-- If she doesn't have the time to call us then will she attend our call??? I doubt.
Me-- But what is wrong in giving a call. May be she will not attend but at least we can try.
C-- No way. No point in calling her up. I agree with A.
A-- Really how careless is she, that she can't even be responsible enough to call.
Me-- Oho .... it is possible that she is just trying to wrap up the work fast ... so why argue...just call na.
On this A, B, C and now D also jumped up on me.
D-- Why don't you call her yourself. Or better just go out and escort her to the bus. We are not going to call.
Me-- I don't have her number, else I would have called her long back instead of fighting about it.
Well I soon realised that this statement was a big mistake.
B-- What do you want to say? We are not beggars or downtrodden that we cannot afford to call. We can but we won't. Why should we. She should have called back.......Blah Blah Blah ....
I had enough of it. I just walked out of the bus and went to meet E to see what had gone wrong.
I had just reached E's workstation when I saw her wrapping up her work. Seeing me she apologised for being late and assured that she will be back in 5 minutes.
I went back to the bus only to be greeted in an extremely sarcastic way
B-- Kya hua, Princess ko escort nahi kiya aapney? (What happened you didn't escort the princess??)
That sentence blew the lid off my head. I just looked up at B and she immediately fell silent.
No body spoke to me for the next few days.
Till date I couldn't figure out what was so wrong that I did.
And I couldn't figure out why those ladies were so adamant at not calling.
This thing got cleared up a bit a few days back when a similar incident happened in our school bus except that this time I chose to be a mere spectator and kept listening to the PNPC that went on in the bus. That story will come up on some other occassion.
For the time being I can say that I saw a new type of ego in females. One which is closely related to PNPC.
Well this incident happened a few years back in the office bus in which I was coming. My office, where I worked, was full of ladies. In fact I was the only insignificant male candidate in the entire office. Sometimes it used to make me feel so puny. Nonetheless that day we were waiting for the bus to move from office to home. The sun was beating down hard and it was too hot inside to sit properly.
Now there were four ladies sitting inside with me, let us call them A, B, C, and D. And one more lady E was sitting in the office who was also supposed to join us. For some reason she was getting late and A, B, C and D were progressively getting restless. So finally came a time when I suggested them to call up E to know the status of her return. God only knows why I suggested that. A flurry of chit-chats and PNPC began.
A-- Why should we call? It is her (E's) responsibility to keep us updated.
Me-- That is ok but may be she is in some work and not finding enough time to call us.
B-- If she doesn't have the time to call us then will she attend our call??? I doubt.
Me-- But what is wrong in giving a call. May be she will not attend but at least we can try.
C-- No way. No point in calling her up. I agree with A.
A-- Really how careless is she, that she can't even be responsible enough to call.
Me-- Oho .... it is possible that she is just trying to wrap up the work fast ... so why argue...just call na.
On this A, B, C and now D also jumped up on me.
D-- Why don't you call her yourself. Or better just go out and escort her to the bus. We are not going to call.
Me-- I don't have her number, else I would have called her long back instead of fighting about it.
Well I soon realised that this statement was a big mistake.
B-- What do you want to say? We are not beggars or downtrodden that we cannot afford to call. We can but we won't. Why should we. She should have called back.......Blah Blah Blah ....
I had enough of it. I just walked out of the bus and went to meet E to see what had gone wrong.
I had just reached E's workstation when I saw her wrapping up her work. Seeing me she apologised for being late and assured that she will be back in 5 minutes.
I went back to the bus only to be greeted in an extremely sarcastic way
B-- Kya hua, Princess ko escort nahi kiya aapney? (What happened you didn't escort the princess??)
That sentence blew the lid off my head. I just looked up at B and she immediately fell silent.
No body spoke to me for the next few days.
Till date I couldn't figure out what was so wrong that I did.
And I couldn't figure out why those ladies were so adamant at not calling.
This thing got cleared up a bit a few days back when a similar incident happened in our school bus except that this time I chose to be a mere spectator and kept listening to the PNPC that went on in the bus. That story will come up on some other occassion.
For the time being I can say that I saw a new type of ego in females. One which is closely related to PNPC.
1 comment:
da has it dawned on u that everyone reading this blog might not be a Bengali and that "PNPC" might appear to be alien to them? :P but otherwise...eta ektu badabadi hoe geche :P bit of an exaggeration i mean
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