The boat ride lasted around 20 minutes,as it came to a stop in some kind of a feature which seemed like a small island!Suddenly,everyone changed into their swimming trunks and joyfully disrobed themselves off of their T-shirts/Hawaian shirts!As I stood their gaping at all this like a kid watching some animals in a zoo,there was much more excitement in store!The ladies,whom I'd seen only in the meetings and corridors quite decently dressed,suddenly emerged in the skimpiest of all dresses(read as bikinis) and everyone started jumping into the water with thier floaties!
I looked around me and suddenly I found myself to be the only fully dressed guy on the boat(ofcourse there were a few typical desi females in their chudidhars and dhupattas!!).
Duh!What was I thinking that morning when I wore my jean and T-shirt to this event!The next half an hr,I played the role of the pathetic beer-filler guy for the floating junta,eventually helping myself to a series of jokes-all at my own expense!
And then,I decided after around an hour of serious deliberation that it was time to venture into the water.The decision was quite easily arrived at but there were a million questions left to be answered...
1)I don't know swimming at all..or am I like to the dog or the horse which doesnt know if it knows swimming or not and magically starts swimming when the moment arrives?
2)Would I be able to remove my T-shirt in front of all these people and expose it?
'It' being the strangest of all things - the 'Poonal',which I was worried might make people think that I was from one of those Indian tribes - the native ones!
3)How comfortable or uncomfortable would it feel to be in water in one's jean and the time after that,when the drenched pant would feel soggy and irritating the whole time till I reach my house!
4)There were those orange coloured life-jackets which were not touched by anyone and would my act of wrapping it around myself magically go unnoticed?
Damn,I finally took the plunge and successfully stayed afloat like everyone else,until in the 15th second of my float, the bloody orange life vest exposed itself on to the top,trying to stay bouyant!
The crowd erupted into laughter and I eventually became famous for not knowing swimming,for not have ever been in any water body,for not to have removed my T-shirt and for having dived in with my jean on!
There I was..floating like a dead fish in water,yet feeling like a fish out of water!It was fun though explaining how unnatural it was to go near water in India and how my dad always tells this in the weekly fone call -'Kondhae..Don't go near water or fire unnecessarily'!
-Raapi
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