Like any other day, even on that day the environment in my office was geeky and worky and a little dull; appraisals were due from long. Pissed off with bugs, releases, and document updates, folks were beating their keyboards mercilessly- tap-tap-tap-tap... Smiles and laughter were just limited to chats... "ha ha" .. "lol" and "ROTFL".
Amongst the thumping of the keyboards and buzzing of the AC, I suddenly heard a trolley.... puieck....puieck.... kich...kich....A man in blue was pushing this trolley and was accompanied with a tall, handsome, and neatly dressed gentleman. He was carrying a pad and was distributing some golden color object. What was it...? I tried to strain my eye... does it look like a bottle... Everyone stood up in their cubes. Those men were under spotlight... On the dark floor these two were under the spotlight of hope and suspicion.... (weird isn't it...facility guys never got so much attention?) The closer they came to my cube, my doubt was converting into a terrifying truth.... Yes! It was it! ... it was it... a golden color SOOGO 500 ml cool bottle.
Yes! it was the day, when we lost the comfort of water being served at our desk...I was feeling as if monsoon has ditched India... and now what should be done... Should we dig the grounds? No we will land up in the parking... then where do we go... A question which had puzzled and troubled every one.
Ideas that erupted that day were mind blowing... we had great plans, they could even solve water problems of the entire globe. The ideas were simple as having live streams flowing through passages between cubes. Amazing, the water in the "Golden color SOOGO 500 ml cool bottle" is over, bend down dip it in the stream... and enjoy fresh mineral water. I mean we had awesome landscaping ideas with waterfalls and damns and reservoirs. "And now that's what I call an office", "Chumeshwari idea", and "Stupendo... something something....
Some idea's were very eco friendly. Just the way we supply water to hens in a poultry farm through those drip irrigation pipes. Similar pipes could be run through all the cubes, with a tap connected in each cube. Awesome, isn't it.... I liked the hand pump suggestion.... outstandingly brilliant idea.
Boss, but how much possessive can one become about his/her new bottle...pictures were clicked with bottle, team snaps, solo possess... and what not....It was a riot ... absolute riot...It was a tsunami that had erupted in the bottles. Even the VP could not resist himself from getting this discussion in his quarterly meeting.
The noise these discussions created, reminded me of a peacock dancing in the rain.... thar-thar-thar...thar-thar-thar...Well, the atmosphere had lightened up once again... after all the news of lay offs, it was a nice break.
The next day, accepting that all our BRILLIANT ideas were rejected, water coolers were installed in the canteen. Girls carrying bottles to the canteen, reminded me of a famous Hindi song, "Panghat par Radhika naache re". Thankfully, there are no quarrels near the water cooler, the way they happen in Mumbai and Pune chawls.... "arre eee.... bla bla bla".
Now we all meet at least twice in a day, near the water cooler... At one time, some us were hardly seen out of our cubes... now we all know who is there in our project and on this floor.
The entry of Saturn, the ruling planet of water bearer Aquarius in our kundli, has changed our life to certain extent... too much na now.... it is a fact but... you never know what can change your life and when...
Canteen is now known as Bavdi, Kua, and, Ghat. These places are normally seen with matkas... in our case bottles....
