A lot can happen for a cup of coffee!!

These days I don’t have much work at office. But yesterday was an exception. I had NO work at office but still had to sit there for 10 long hours. I checked all my mails every 2 mins with a hope that there will be some lucky moment when I would receive a mail which would help me kill at least 5 mins. I tried buzzing everyone online in my list but it seemed only I was unlucky enough to have time to chat. So even that was not of much help. Before this day I had not thought that there might come a time when I would be wishing this. But I seriously wished I had some exam the next day so that I could at least have something to study. While I was still struggling as to how to kill time, I heard one of my colleagues say “we have a meeting starting in another 5 mins”.

Another colleague: “what’s the agenda of this meeting? We had no prior information!!”

Previous colleague: “this meeting is being held without notice to discuss some very urgent issues.”

The agenda of that meeting was “how should we kill the remaining 5 hrs!!”

The meeting lasted for 4 hrs (which included two coffee breaks of 30 mins each) and as it goes with all meetings we came to a conclusion when we were tired of racking our brains. We decided that we would ‘somehow manage killing time’ (like all meetings the original problem was still unsolved!!) and then treat ourselves for this great achievement by a cup of coffee at the nearest barista.

We decided that instead of getting down at our stop, we would get down 2 stops ahead, take an auto from there to the Besant Nagar Barista. After successfully killing 10 hrs we left the office premises only to find that it was drizzling (being optimistic!!). The rain was a matter of concern for some moments but then we thought we should not let these petty things stop us from having our share of fun and excitement. Little did we know at that time that we were going to have much more excitement than we had planned for.

We happily crossed our stop but as we were nearing the place we had panned to get down, it started raining heavily. And by the time the bus stopped, it was pouring down so heavily that it was impossible to even get down from the bus. Dejected by all means we decided we would get down at our stop when the bus would return after the last stop. Like school kids who miss to get down at their stop we inquired the driver whether he would return back to office via same route. It was not difficult convincing him to take the same route back n drop us at our stop.

We were already feeling like losers. On our way back, by the time we neared our ‘initial planned stop’ the rain had stopped. So finally we got down and treated ourselves with the hard earned coffee!!