It's around 6 p.m.. I think I have almost finished my work in the department. So, I should update my antivirus and leave for the hostel. But OMG, where is the laptop? It's nowhere in the room. I am here since morning and how come I did not bother to check even once, if it was safe. But I can't think of the reason why it would vanish. I haven't left the room unattended even for a while and anyways, today being holiday, not many people are there in the department.
Where have I left it. I am sure I had carried it with me to the department because initially, I had forgotten to take it and then when I realized, I unlocked the door again and went inside specially for picking up the laptop. I am trying to recall what had happened in the morning. From hostel, I went to canteen for breakfast and reached department around 9.45. It means there are three possible places, where I could have forgotten it. Either I had kept it outside my hostel room while locking the door, secondly, I might have left it in the canteen and thirdly I may have kept it near the stairs while opening the side door of the department. None of them is a safe place for such things. Now, only God can take care of my laptop. And to add to the nightmare, today morning I had kept my hard disk in the same bag as laptop. It means, laptop is gone along with the data. There is no use of having a backup device... There is only one ray of hope... I have forgotten it in my room itself....
I have started praying, as I run towards the hostel. I open the room and am relieved to see the laptop resting on the bed. So, it means, in the morning I went inside specially to get the laptop, took it out from the cupboard, then, I kept it on the bed for locking the cupboard and came out completely forgetting, why I went inside. And then for the whole day, I didn't realize even once that I had done some such thing....
I don't know when I am going to change... Absent mindedness has been my long standing companion who seems to be in a no mood to betray me.....
Where have I left it. I am sure I had carried it with me to the department because initially, I had forgotten to take it and then when I realized, I unlocked the door again and went inside specially for picking up the laptop. I am trying to recall what had happened in the morning. From hostel, I went to canteen for breakfast and reached department around 9.45. It means there are three possible places, where I could have forgotten it. Either I had kept it outside my hostel room while locking the door, secondly, I might have left it in the canteen and thirdly I may have kept it near the stairs while opening the side door of the department. None of them is a safe place for such things. Now, only God can take care of my laptop. And to add to the nightmare, today morning I had kept my hard disk in the same bag as laptop. It means, laptop is gone along with the data. There is no use of having a backup device... There is only one ray of hope... I have forgotten it in my room itself....
I have started praying, as I run towards the hostel. I open the room and am relieved to see the laptop resting on the bed. So, it means, in the morning I went inside specially to get the laptop, took it out from the cupboard, then, I kept it on the bed for locking the cupboard and came out completely forgetting, why I went inside. And then for the whole day, I didn't realize even once that I had done some such thing....
I don't know when I am going to change... Absent mindedness has been my long standing companion who seems to be in a no mood to betray me.....
Wonderful yaar...
ReplyDeleteYou wont believe you kept me laughing continuosly and i am still laughing writing this..
especially the analysis "why I went inside. And then for the whole day, I didn't realize even once that I had done some such thing.."
What is wonderful; The post or the absent mindedness? ;)
ReplyDeleteWe all are same .. I am relieved a bit of my goof too.. thanks for penning down this ... great work !!! Hilarious too !!
ReplyDeleteThe way you wrote is wonderful... keeping the secret till end .. the way you used to narrate the stories :) keep it up.. !!!
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot, Richa.... It's because of inspiration from people like you that I keep writing :)
ReplyDeletehehehe....maja aali....me asach ekda chavi kulpat visarlo hoto...aani aamhi refectory te hostel poorna rasta shodhli chavi.....aani finally kulpat sapadli...
ReplyDeleteआठवतंय मलाही निखिल... आपण सगळे एका माळेचे मणी आहोत.
ReplyDeleteHats off to you!
ReplyDeleteकाय बोलू???
ReplyDeletesometimes it happen because we one do something and think about some other thing and forgot the what we did it usually happens with me too and i think the person who forget something totally he/she has great capacity to remember all thing.And i think its true.
ReplyDeleteAbsent-mindedness...:O
ReplyDeleteNice to see someone same as me... ;)
all the best... :)