Monday, February 5, 2007

Meal 2 remember




This is a random entry of a lunch to remember. I dont remember the exact date but think it was around last week.A new exercising of my writing skills.The three women were seated around the last table on one of the four rows of tables laid out in the canteen. They were in their late teens and seemed to be waiting for another girl to join them. they waited, waited and they waited. So they finally gave orders including for the absent member because they expected her to be present by the time their food arrived. As it so happens she didnt arrive but her food did, along with theirs. They finished eating their meal but were tempted by her untouched papad and shrikhand in her untouched thali and left no traces of their remains. And then they ordered ginger-lemon juice as two of them were in the throes of a bad cold. As it happens the ginger had no lemon and was too gingery for human consumption. And there ensued a battle to consume the nectar with one of them diluting the juice in the bottle occasionally, not realising that the volume of consumption was actually increasing. The climax of the scene involves by the so far absent friend arriving and causing a havoc by showing belligerence towards the waiter who had not brought her papad and shrikhand. Followed by more belligerence towards her tablemates as the picture became clearer. This was of course borne by the other three, two of them whom she found curiously red eyed with watering noses and with tongues exposed in opened mouths making frequent licking and panting gingerly motions.


This shows how a good lunch can be made to sound boring using the right language.

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