THEY LIVE AMONG US
I wish to narrate this incident and wish you all a very happy 2011. I am sure there will be more such people among us.
This happened on Monday 27th December, 2010. My elder is here from the USA with her family for the New Year. We have a plan to visit Sunderbans close to Kolkota with her friends. We had to leave by the afternoon flight to Kolkata.
Her friends have sent her e-ticket by email. I have internet at home but no printer. So we decided to go out to a cyber café and take a printout of the ticket. Totally unmindful of the fact that Monday being a holiday for the local shopkeepers and small businesses in our area, we go to the cyber café I know and find it closed. We try to locate some other cyber café or a place with internet and printing facility without success. We decide to get it done at the Airport counter of the Airlines for which we may have to squeeze some time and reach early at the Airport.
I wanted to make a last try and entered an office to enquire if they could guide us to a cyber café nearby. We enquired from the lady sitting in the office. She tried to exercise her memory but in vain. She casually asked what we need it for. I said to take a print out. She said you can as well do it here.
Obliged to hear that, my daughter logs on to her account and takes a printout of the ticket. We thank the lady and slightly hesitatingly ask the charges.
“No way, Sir. It’s just nothing. Have a nice flight”
“Many thanks.” we murmur and leave thanking her in our heart of hearts.
They live among us.
31.12.2010
No comments:
Post a Comment