Its Friday late evening. My wife's train will be arriving at Pune station from Mumbai by 10 pm. To kill time I am sitting in cafeteria playing carrom on a rough, powder less board with a heavy striker. We have 3 carrom boards in one extreme corner of cafeteria.
"This is my second last board" says a curly hair guy. Its almost 8:45 pm or so. Every body is enjoying, there is zeal in the corner of cafeteria, cries of the lost and laughter's of winners. We, me and a South India are about to win the game. I hear sharp sound of shoe heels walking towards us. All of a sudden the chaos in the room is mute. I am sitting facing the entrance of the cafeteria. As I raise my head up, I see a model like tall, slim, short hair girl, with a smile on her face and books in her hand, doing a ramp walk towards the carrom tables. I am puzzled why on earth at this time she is in office and why is she coming towards carrom tables. I look to neighboring carrom tables and even those guys echo my thoughts. "Why is she coming here?" I hear a whispers. "Mast hey yaar." Every guy is ogling at her. I am damn sure everyone must be imagining her walking in slow motion. (For records, I am busy observing every bodies expressions). She once played drum set in company's annual function. When ever she is around, there are handful of guys staring at her as if a fighter jet has locked its target.
The carrom corner, by now is so silent as if teacher/principle walked in the classroom. She stops by our neighboring table and talks to a guy. Everyone says in their mind lucky guy. You think i can read mind...hell ya look everybody's jaw dropped expression. Why did she came here ?... She could have called this lucky fellow on mobile. In few seconds she starts walking towards exit of cafeteria and still all eyes are on here and they are going to follow here till she disappears.
My South Indian carrom partner says "we are of same joining batch".
Curly hair guy, "So, when did you join ?"
"8 months ago." says SI.
Curly looking at the carrom, "Ummm".
"Are you trying to figure out her age" says SI to curly hair with a mysterious smile.
"HAHAHAHAHA" we all started laughing.
