She just committed another such blooper. Yet another faux pas .She just seemed to specialize in it .Saying things that shouldn’t be said. Being where she shouldn’t be. Not surprisingly her already quite limited friend circle was only shrinking. And how!
Shweta had grown up on a fiction of a hero as someone who was tall ,dark, handsome or lithe ,fair and handsome .The last thing she could have imagined was that life would bowl a googly at her. Loving an ordinary person was last on her mind .And that too someone say a bit stubby and nowhere near a cherub .And where it had to be texting a person like him on a routine scale? No way!
So began what had to be an average day at the office. Boss had asked for a sheaf of printouts and a memo to be circulated among the staff .A meeting was to be held at the lunch hour cutting into everyone’s spare time and raising everyone’s bile too. And there was the all-important email she had to make to her ‘’to be’’ .
Sighing about the work that seemed to keep her all ground to the desk with no time to breathe, Shweta walked in to the print station. Only yesterday she had committed yet another blooper, one that could not be forgiven too…Aunty Tina you know the one who had lost her husband to COVID part deux…well on meeting her at the shopping complex of the colony without once thinking she blurted out ,gushing away ,’’Hi aunty, looking beautiful…!’’The lady helping her even a she walked past as she struggled on her walking stick whispered into her ear ,’’Don’t you know dearie aunty’s husband has only passed away…’’
An embarrassed Shweta slunk away not knowing where to look and wishing the ground would swallow her…
It was not just a new thing with her you know. Even in school when Akhillan sir you know who had a squint had taken the class on a field trip knowing the children loved open spaces and what did Shweta do…?Well as they sat by the grassy meadow of the hill when sir looked at her and asked her a question ,she blurted out ,’’Sir why are you looking at Nidhi and asking me the question ?Her Bestie Harini (yes she had followed her all the way into college and even begun to work in the same workplace)nudged her one big one into her ribs and whispered ,’’Stupid, have you forgotten sir is squint…be careful what you say in the future …’’Embarrassed she looked down…
And now this idea of marriage cropping up…Shweta hoped she would not make any such bloopers and hurt anyone…Sighing to herself she began to get those all too important print outs done then sent emails to the staff meet .They would be a grumpy lot and since she was the bearer of the bad news they would take it all out on her. Once again causing her to curse her fate.
Once all the office work was done Shweta sat down for her personal work. This was actually her first text her would be and she wanted it to be all too special. So she took extra great care as she composed it. Ritwick (yes that was his name!) was working in the software sector and according to both her ma ,and her would be ma-in-law, was a computer whiz every step of the way and she dreamt of a beautiful life ahead with him .She had already started planning her wedding trousseau and was planning to go Sunday next with Harini to shop for it. Anyway as she sat down to compose she recalled all her past experience of her days in college and wrote a truly flowery verse cum prose combo .She was sure Ritwick would be blown away with it…
Then without thinking twice she sent the text …of all the persons to …oh no Kamlesh …his window was open simultaneously and she just had not closed it…horror of horrors…
The next moment the chubby dubby as they all called him landed up at her desk looking starry eyed and spoke with what he hoped was dulcet tones ,’’Shweta ,I never knew you thought of me like that …if that really is the case I will do everything in my power to be your dream boat…’’
With that sentence he vanished leaving Shweta cursing under her breathe and hitting her forehead…Before she could think Kamesh emerged during lunch hour with a gigantic bouquet of orchids and in front of everyone including her furious boss expressed his love for her…Everyone giggled …Not that Shweta was a beauty but the two were such an unlikely pair…!Shweta thought to herself…how many times am I going to repeat this error…or hurt someone...never again God...
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