Beg….., Borrow……., Steal…….!!!
This is what happened today at work…..Din know it wuz such fun till playing it…..
As every weekend, we had a fun event this time @ work…….The theme as above….People were divided into groups and then started the fun…..We were given a list of 15 items and asked to get all of them as fast as we can utmost in 45 mins…Lol…People started running around…..Being a friday the list is varied as much as a pair of formal shoes, a neck tie, a fast-track watch, a parker pen(generally wid free stationery available ppl don carry such pens around), a cap, two movie tickets, a pair of gold bangles, a diamond ring, a lipstick, a payal(gosh…!!!),a brown leather belt, 3 bags having our department logo, a expired credit card, a newspaper dated in november, a couple of movie tickets and last but not the least an ID card of an employee whose number is less than 15k……being a company of 80k+ finding such ppl is not a big task but it proved da most hard as all the senior management already pledged their cards to their respective teams…….
So thus started my begging…..The first and foremost thing we got hold of wuz the old newspaper by begging the building’s security people to show us the lot of old papers…..Rummaging through it produced a paper of november..
Harini though had payals was reluctant to remove them as it wuz a friday [:(] so cant mess it up……So thus I went around the cubes begging for a payal.. 
…I happened to have a parker……..In the meantime i also stole my team mates bag even before he reached his cube and fought wid him later that in these types of situations its not ones own property but first come first serve basis…..Then started the search for a ring. Joshna my team mate luckily had a fasttrack watch and a frnd who had a diamond ring…..So off we sent her in pursuit of the diamonds which we needed more badly than a pirate would….
Pavan went out and jus like magic reappeared wid a brown belt, a tie and a cap……He got a belt and tie from his car…But the real fun wuz the cap…….he had to beg a reluctant construction worker to part with his cap for some time……And he succeeded too……Should not mention the fact that the workers hard days work reflected in the caps stature but this is not the time for beauty but brains n wits…..
Now came the lipstick…..How can any self respecting guy ask any unknown girl for a LIPSTICK……???????? This time it had been Pooja one of the organizers who came to our rescue…..she went inside and came out in a jiffy with two lipsticks…….This is the time i felt the advantage of being heavily built……I rushed past others like hell and they were too dumbstruck to stop or overtake me and thus i managed to catch hold of one of them successfully…..That was a near wrestle with one of our PM’s Gowtham who got hold of another one…
Again we set off to the cubes searching peoples feet for a pair of formal shoes……I happened to spot a very senior guy and gathered all my courage to ask him his shoes for a few minutes……..Though discouraged by some I went ahead and asked the person “Can i have your shoes for a few minutes please….!!!!”……..But even before he could comprehend what the hell it was about my team-mate shouted that he got a pair…….I quickly apologized and left the scene…….When i asked my mate where the shoes were he did not show shoes but a new pair of legs………He did not get the shoes but the owner too……Kool guy…..
Sudarshan suddenly appeared with a printout of two tickets which he booked on the spot to make the list fill……He said he booked them thru credit card…….Suddenly Pavan thought something, removed his wallet and LO, an expired credit card popped out…….By the time our Jewel theif Joshna too returned from her robbery and thus we endedshort of only two things…..A bag and a ID card which proved the hardest to procure…..
Here comes my purest act of stealing…….I saw one of my colleagues with two bags one on each shoulder trying to get into a crowd which was around the organizers……An age old trick which was used by umpteen tiny toony thieves and many film directors popped up into mah mind……..I stood beside the guy and scratched on his shoulder a bit……He turned a bit and i asked him what the time wuz and how many minutes were left still……He lifted his hand a bit to see the watch…….And told me the time…….But he forgot to lower his hand…….I slowly slipped the bag from his hand and even though others have been noticing me and trying to steal it from me, i ran like a real pickpocket out of a city bus……..And thus with my act of thievery and bravery i got the bag which got our list down to an employee id……..
My manager though had an emp number which is accepted, pledged it to her friend to use it……Their team already got all the required things and managed to convince the anchors to be the first team to complete……Then started my begging my PM for her ID……I would not have begged her even so much for an appraisal…..LOL…….But she did not budge….Saying a card once produced will not be considered for submission again……I asked about my GPM who wuz unfortunately on leave that day and lost even that opportunity……At that time my SPM came to my rescue…..He told about an employee who did not come for the event but not on leave that day…..He told me to get his card and thus complete my inventory…….I set off in search of the person called Ramkrishna…….I asked one or two but got the answer that he already left……In vain i turned back when i heard someone from the crowd shout “Therez RAMKRISHNA”……
Those words fell on me like rain on a water starved land…….And they were pointed towards a person walking past the security……I shouted his name, startled him, went to him, requested his ID card, got it, came back and presented it along with the other bounty to the anchors…………..
And LO……We were the third team to finish the hunt and thus hooted in joy………This is one of the most fun filled evenings after the party which took place two weeks back in hotel chiran fort club which i would be describing soon……..
Thats all for now guys…….Au revoir…….
