I, Kinny Kohli, worked in ABC (am giving it a fictitious name to safe guard their privacy..he hee) for 9 months and left their services effective 31st May. The last day was quite eventful, as one may guess. The office seemed more fun than ever before and I was also given a parting address by my boss and his boss's boss, and some wishes- no gifts:( Thereafter, they gave me bumps-dont ask me why. Havent quite still completely figured out if they meant to wish me luck-as in Birthday bumps- or went about kicking my ass for being rude, or callous with them.Dont know:)
The most emotional moment of the day happened outside office and with no one realted to ABC being there. There is an Andhra Mess near my office and I have had most my daily lunches and dinners there since coming to Bangalore. Almost always I've had their regular offering of a meal which cost 30 bucks and I tip 5bucks,and 10 at times. There is one guy,out of a staff of 7-8 guys, who always serves me the food there. I find the food there absolutely lovely and he used to take care of me like royalty, always keeping a vigilant, yet unobtrusive eye on my dishes and serving me before I was through with the serving and making me eat more than I wanted to on more ocassions than one. Yes, I almost felt like royalty:) The most amazing thing is that he has served me food for such a long time without us knowing a common language. Yes, he doesnt know Hindi, English or Punjabi and I dont know what he speaks-am guessing it'd probably be Kannada.
But the moment I was at the desk paying for my last meal there for quite some time to come, I asked the owner to tell my man that I am leaving that place and wont be a regular at the Mess anymore. Then I gave him my biggest tip to date (dont ask me what:)) and left with moist eyes and I think I saw something in his eyes too.. That is the lasting memory of my last day at ABC
and the 9 months spent there... God Bless him!
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