Thursday, March 31, 2005

Fools day! - what we did last year

It was just few days after i joined the company. Our gang was talking about whom to fool about next day. People throw in names of director, MD, HR etc. just for the heck of it. Meanwhile Mr A walks in and says we guys just talk and wont be able to fool anyone next day. with that remark he leaves for day. Trapped. We were all looking for whom to ambush and this guy walks in!
some guys remember incident that happened week ago..A was driving his car back from official lunch with gang and he happened to go in wrong direction in one of the circle and a bikie coming in the front, got frightened and fell down! A didn't stop the car!

keeping this incident in mind, we formulated our strategy. We downloaded a kannada font and typed in a letter kannada. The letter is from Traffic Police commissioner's office asking Mr A to appear in court on so and so date else face arrest! Most of it is in kannada (A doesn't know kannada!) with his name, car no and few other details handwritten in english. To add authenticity, we copy in police logo and put it at the header..also only the copy is sent to the accused..so we take xerox of it..we print out the envelope also with from as traffic police address! To make it look like courier one, we write in some numbers in the envelope!
To make sure he doesn't doubt, we get this envelope delivered to him by office security and get signature for it..the procedure thats done for any normal letter received.

Apr 1
security delivers it. Mr A opens the envelope and is clueless as it is in kannada. But he identifies that it has come from traffic police office! he asks one of our gangmate sitting next to him to read it out for him. bang! he reads the contents of it! the bikie who fell down, noted down the number and has complained to the police and court hearing is set on Apr 10! A is bewildered. News slowly spreads around and everybody drops in and advise him on how to handle the situation.
One of our gangmate comes to his rescue saying he knows someone in that office and can help him out if he wants. A readily agrees. From his desk he calls a junk number and talks to a fellow in kannada. After a good (oneside!) conversation, he comes back and says the matter is easy to settle. Just 3000 rs needs to be spent. Give the money and he can relax. Mr A is relatively happy that he dont have to go to court etc..calls up his friends and starts ranting that 1st day of the financial year itself he is losing money etc.. He also hands over 2000 Rs which he had at that time to the friend promising that remaining amount he would give it the next day!

over the coffee table, we discuss what to do with 2k we got! we finally decide it's my birthday and am giving a corner-house icecream treat to all the folks..A gets invited and is happy to join! Post-lunch, entire division gets ready to celebrate my birthday. We start to the ice-cream parlour..Just before getting out of the office, people break the plot! A was stunned to say the least! blushingly, he agrees to take us all to ice-cream parlour anyway! A is not gonna forget this incident for some time to come:-)

sure! it really great to fool around (as long as it doesn't happen to me!)

So, whom are you fooling this year!

1 Comments:

At 6:17 am, Blogger Vc said...

good one ... Dude..

 

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