Thursday, September 2, 2010

Can real Sagar please stand up....

As if it is not enough to have the common problems of a simply led life, sometimes incidences thrown on one stumps him or her (one needs to be gender neutral - of course not necessarily the reverse)...

So it was one of those days when you get such experiences. My mobile shouts in its dreaded ringtone (now, mobile ring is one of the scariest thing for me which rings at all wrong times) and I pick it up as it's not landline so it might not be from a person who wants to sell a card or insurance or mutual fund. The voice says "Hey Sagar how are you? you forgot about me dude, I am so and so". Looking at the confidence in his voice and my habit of forgetting names I go "Of-course dude, how are you" (though not recognizing the name). "I have deposited the money for you and after that you don't even pick my call - I got this number from your wife" the voice goes on. I am stumped, but secretly hoping he turns out to be an old forgotten borrower. I ask him to elaborate. He goes on "you forgot your promise man". Huh.. Promise!??! For one I don't remember his name and now he talks about promise! I am sufficiently confused now and demand him to give a context clearly as to what are we talking about.

Now he slowly but surely comes to the point " Err.. it’s like this.. that i paid you.. some, you know .. for a service... I mean err... the escort, you know".. “Whhhaaattt.... what the f.... are.. re..re you talking about", now it was my turn to stammer. I am not able to connect now.. Escort? Depositing money in bank? And he is addressing me by my name... I am making lot of theories in my mind.. is it a case of identity theft? or may be a case of deliberate character assassination? or this?? or that??
Then finally my sense prevails and I ask him for the mobile number he has got from "Sagar" and he tells me the number, which has all first six digits same as my wife's number last 4 digits have only little variation.. so now i get to the root of all confusion. The guy dialed my wife's number by mistake in place of the original number and asked for "Sagar" and by the strange co-incidence her husband, me, is also Sagar. My wife's genuine act of courtesy of giving mobile number to a "friend" of "Sagar" with the combination of coincidences results into this hilarious and traumatic experience at the same time..

2 comments:

ranu said...

"you forgot your promise man"!!!....hilarious :D :P

sid said...

wow that was real fun to read!! Life can be stranger than fiction!!