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I was keeping my fingers crossed that she should not disconnect, I was hoping and praying too. I was pretty amazed at this strange coincidence of chatting up with someone with whom I had just collided on a chat for 4 -5 minutes one evening, then a silence, then a mail & a couple of other rounds of chat , another couple of funny mail forwards exchanged, and now talking live…and that too a female…could there be a meeting happening soon!
SHE: Shimla.
ME: Oh That’s where you belong?
SHE: No, that’s where I stay
ME: How Lucky!!
SHE: Why?
ME: I loooove Shimla( but do I , I need to ask this to myself in solitude)
SHE: Have you been here?
ME: Lots of times, I am there every alternate year.
SHE: How come?
ME: My folks are in Chandigarh, so we take a trip to Shimla / Chail / Kasauli / from there.
SHE: Oh that way!
ME: What do you do?
SHE: I teach (my premonition did say she was a working woman)
ME: And what do you teach?
SHE: I am soft skills trainer. (probably that’s how the accent was coming)
ME: Aaha !!I exclaimed
SHE: What happened?
ME: Big difference.
SHE: Why?
ME: I am a school dropout!
SHE: You must be joking!
ME: But you started it…
SHE: What?
ME: That you are in Shimla, teach as a soft skills trainer, there is no institute like that in all of Shimla ( I threw a bait).
SHE: There is..
ME: No way, I know Shimla inside out.
SHE: You know National College ( she bit the bait)
ME: Very well. Near the Secretariat.
SHE: Yes we are a faculty there.
ME: WE ARE, kya matlab?
SHE: We means our group.
ME: But undergrad course college does not have soft skills in the curriculum.
SHE: Actually I am with IFCAI ( she bit the bait again)
ME: We are affiliated to the NC for the faculty and thats how (didn’t I say I wil charm her into disclosing about herself)
ME: Nah I don’t believe this, why shud NC allow this.
SHE: @%^%&%&^#
Me: What was that?
SHE: Don’t bug me any more with this!
ME: I know you are lying, tell me the actual place where you work!
SHE: How did you know?
ME: I know you very well
SHE:How???
ME: Its obvious,I googled & gathered in the last 5 minutes all about IFCAI @ SHIMLA.
SHE: Is it??
ME: Your email ID is still registered in your maiden name (ek aur phenka)
SHE: Yeah (surprised)
ME: and you also have another ID on Google
SHE: Yeeeah (more surprised)
Don’t we all do it this way, but it kind of impressed her, or was she only getting carried away.
The conversations lasted some 40 minutes, till my fon sent me extra terrestrial signals of BATTERY LOW BATTERY LOW every 30- 40 seconds. I told her I need to attend to some office work too, and will call same time next day!
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