A Date with a 'Nira' vendor ……..

Awrite folks ……Lets get set for another whacky incident that occurred in my life !!! Sometimes , I wonder ……….. It probably would be an easy job for me to be a court jester rather than manage some 1000-odd lines of code in an IT company …Oh , that incidentally would be my job profile in some time now ! J Well , moving on to the main topic now … My date with a Nira vendor !!!!! hilarious , ain’t it ? people date girls , but I date the Nira man …. LOL .

It so happened ……..

A sunny afternoon , as I just descended on to my Bajaj Pulsar 150 DTS-I model , I realized that the seat was indeed Burning HOT !!! A 40 degree sunshine was all ready to burn my ass out ! Probably by the time I reached home , I would have a pair of roasted dundee’s for lunch ! Believe me ….it was that bad . So , to prevent this possibility , I decided to have a stop at a local nira vendor .(Nira is a juice made out of a special fruit . It needs to be stored in sub-zero conditions otherwise , you never know …You could get drunk . Its offered on the road sides and only in the summers . Also , it’s a government guided affair and hence at a little subsidized and uniform rates . See … our politicos also want us to get drunk ;) ) . Never mind , so I stopped at the Nira vendor’s shop and through my helmet I simply signaled the boy across the counter for a cool glass to quench my thirst . The boy quickly obliged and there I was gulping my first Nira glass .. For the next wo glasses that followed , I never found a reason to loudly communicate with the boy and let him know about my need . Once I was done , I again did the same thing , I simply signaled him for the total amount . Now , it had so happened that the earlier day too I had a glass of nira from him and since I was short of a 2rupee change , I told him (in my signaling manner) that I would pay him the next time . He kindly had obliged . Today my total amount was Rs.10 and the previous day’s Rs.2 so in all Rs.12 . When I looked at the boy , to my horror he just signaled me with animated actions that you need to pay Rs.2 from yesterday (this he showed ny waving his right hand animatdely in the reverse direction , exactly as you would do to a deaf person ) and Rs.10 for today ( this he again showed by striking a finger on his palm ! ) . I was totally in a state of shock … Not In a position to convince him that “For heaven’s sake , I am not dumb ! “ , I simply paid him the amount and zoomed away …. Now onwards however I made a resolve to talk to him each time I decide to savour his drink ! Lets see …how he greets me the next time ………......:)