My Day out with MyselfBeing a 19yr old is at times demanding both physically and mentally.A 19 yr old is supposed to be more responsible and should have a clear conviction about his fufure,neither of which i possessed.So that leaves me with little option but to develop both atleast before i pass out of college which leaves me ample time coz "am here to stay forever".Well the whole point of the being a 19 yr old thing is that i had to renew the insurance of the bike which was to be done an year back and I had to go to a particular mobile provider’s office, one being a government run firm and another being a private Firm.
I got down from my bike and stared at the old, delapidated building housing one of the busiest offices,the insurance company ,in the town.The sight held a little promise for finding anything interesting there. As I walked into the building the cobwebs greeted me by wrapping onto my hair and I found myself getting nowhere. There wasn’t a single signboard directing me to the Office. I finally found the office and pushed the doors open startling everyone inside the office. Good ,I guess they specifically made this arrangement so that none escapes the office without others noticing. The Celtell office was much better than this,atleast they had doors that opened using sensors without people touching it. I was greeted by a young Lady of about 22years old, in the celtell office and damn she looked hot."Ma`am,excuse me"
I asked the women at the counter of the insurance company ,"Cant u see I am calculating something”, she growled. Well inside the insurance office i felt like standing in an old age retirement home. The average age was over fifty and hell no, am not exaggerating. I looked around, fifty year old people straining their eyes over the moniters, pressing the buttons of the keyboard like they didn’t want to hurt the keys. The office was more like an antique shop with antique pieces.In a two or three years time the government can make a hell lot of money by selling those antique PCs.There were black and white monitors too, wow,it unfolded the parchments of memories of the time when I owned a Pentium one pc with a 1.67 GB Harddisk and 8 mb ram and a mouse big enough to resemble a real mouse (ok, i was exaggerating on that part). Back to Celltell, the hot chick asked me to take a seat,
” where yea sitting ma`am?", was the first thought that popped into my mind. I positioned myself with her in my radars vicinity. The whole place was so hip and kool.Right next to me hung an electric guitar on the wall and a BryanAdam`s song was being played on worldspace, though I still haven’t figured out why they hung electric guitars on walls instead of giving it to budding artists like me(am still very much a bud),the whole place was so sexy and chic.
I overheard a conversation between two guys in the insurance office.One guy was filling some form pertaining to insurance of a computer and the other was starting to doze off in his chair."U know the total estimate is way to high if u consider the prices of each peripheral" remarked one guy."How come ?Just tell me the peripheral name and I will tell u how much it costs" said the other guy."Cd writer ??""2000.so he doesn’t want a Cdrom??""Don’t know.Moniter??17 inch Samsung""Ohh...don’t know really how about 8000""Okay, keyboards and mice""Its mouse fools .1000 together""CPU?""15000...""by the way wats the CPU?""u don’t know tht??its the black cuboidal thing",he said pointing to the UPS"but thts UPS ,and it doesnt hav the cdrom,cpu has the cdrom thts wat my son told me""ohh ok.well all i know is tht the cpu has pentinum 4 monitor in it,doesnt it"Yes people i heard the guy sayin pentium 4 monitor.I didnt hav the heart to hurt his confidence."ok.so tht makes it 26000.But he wants 40000 .Can we grant him that much money""Please ,its the goverments cash why are u so bothered about it,fill in the form and stop wasting my time coz i hav to pick up my daughter from her college""Hey u know Ray called me today morning.He wants to take me for a date tonight",the girl in the pink top sittin across
me said to the guy sittin next to her.
"Wow how interesting.Thts the fifth time u hav told me that.Got anything else
to talk",the guy said staring at the monitor not even bothering to check the girls expresssion.
"You are supposed to be my bestfriend and you dont even try to understand me" ,the girl said.
"Well thts why bfs are for.For understanding and cribbing",the guy muttured.
"Hey what happened to you.You werent like this before i met Ray.Since then u hav been acting strange.You were all caring and good.but now u hav become mean"
"Nothing i feel myself lucky now that ypu are committed",the girl stared at him with anger and turned around and started typing something vigorously on the keyboard.
The girls cellphone began to ring,and she grabbed her cellphone and shouted "ohh Ray".Everyone in office heard that.I guess she did that purposely as if telling guys like us who was staring her that"bugger off ,am booked ". I cudnt hear the rest of the conversation although i strained my ears hard to tap into it.All I cud hear was a string of crackled up laughters and something like "oh u ray ,u naughty boy", while others in the office worked unnoticed.I guess it was daily routine here in Celtell office.
But I had to hand it over to the celltell guys....they did their work in half an hour,while in the insurance guys inevitably asked to come the following day to pick the insurance letter.It was so typical of the guys in govenment.
So i guess i do support the government that encourages privatisation coz u get the job done faster and and get to see goodlooking people in the office,atleast u dont get bored there.