The Three Me's

The characters-
ME_EARLIER

ME_NOW

ME_LATER

The Argument-
ME_EARLIER : “You cannot blame me alone for this!!”
ME_LATER : “Had you done what you were expected to, I would not have been in this mess. And you, Mr. ME_NOW how can you be such a lazybone?”
ME_NOW : “Ridiculous!!! It is not the question of me being Lazy. I agree if ME_EARLIER had done his part, it would have been different. But you should be looking at ways dealing the mess you are in than playing this blame game”.
ME_EARLIER : “Yeah, that’s right. Why the hell are you after us?”

The Plot-
Just when I sat down to study the presentation yet again, I remembered to keep the laptop for charging. I am sure I will feel handicapped without it during the journey. “This is the single most important meeting in my career. And I cannot relax a bit till it’s over”, I kept on reminding myself. The flight is at 4:30 early morning, I should not forget to set the alarm.

The Argument Continues-
ME_NOW : “But it all started with your stupidity. How on earth can you forget to set the alarm?”
ME_EARLIER : “So what!!?? You are the one who overslept. I was struggling with the presentation last night. I was tired and slept off. But you… You took the luxury of being lazy to get up on time. As if people don’t get up without alarms.”
ME_NOW : “What ever has to happen will happen. It is destiny. Me, you or him cannot change it. Mr.ME_LATER now you stop this and move ahead. You are wasting your time here”
ME_LATER : “This is extremely disappointing. Because of you both I missed the flight. Now I will have to face the consequences. And you are accepting your fault. Hey Mr. ME_NOW how can you have the nerve to speak to me like this? You have put me into trouble. You are the only one who was lazy here.”
ME_NOW : “But..”
ME_EARLIER : ” You better don’t speak a word more now. I agree with Mr. ME_LATER. You are the sole culprit here”
ME_LATER was about to shout at MR._NOW again and the mobile phone buzzed. ME_EARLIER and ME_LATER vanished…

The Dream-
BUZZZZZZZZZZ BUZZZZZZZZZZ BUZZZZZZZZZZZ BUZZZZZZZZZZZZ BUZZZZZZZZZ BUZZZZZZZZZZZI sprang out of the bed. Threw the blanket aside while banging on the alarm snooze. The fluorescent screen read 3:00 am. An hour and few minutes later I collected my boarding pass.

Now is the time. Now decide destiny. Now can be the culprit as well !!

SEX CRICKET AND BOLLYWOOD

5:27 PM 9-May-2008: "uff!!! this is the worst day ever, thank God it's over!!", he consoled himself while parking the bike at basement of the apartment after a very bad day at office. Little did he realise there is a good 6 and half more hours left for the days close when he said that. And when things start going wrong for you, it just don't stop until your day is ruined beyond repair. So the case was not very different here as well.

5:30 PM 9-May-2008: "THUD!!" porous calcium on calcined limestone. No, it's not a chemical reaction, it's just physical. It's mere head hitting the concrete pillar. "ehhh... what the hell!!" a dire cry follows. This is when Roby Abraham Daniel realized the fact. Fact that the day is not over yet. And the calamitous day has more in store for him. How else on earth would he have missed the pillar which he last saw a few hours back???

5:31 PM 9-May-2008: Roby standing in front of the lift. Expression? hmmm expression-less, helpless, pondering WHAT NEXT!??? The lift has refused to respond to his perpetual poking. You might think this could not be very bad after all. Good to have some workout, climbing stairs.. eh? I would request your prejudicious mind to read the next line. 13th floor..!! that's where he lives. 13 is just a coincidence. It has got nothing to do with his bad day. Because he lives in the same apartment on his good days as well. So do Naveen and Me. And Naveen and Me did not have a bad day that day. So you can spare 13.

5:46 PM 9-May-2008: Roby standing in front of the door. Expression? hmmm expression-less, more helpless.. tired..(13 floors; if you have forgotten). He searched his pockets for the 4th time, and the wallet, and the bag. But he still could not find the door keys. He sure could not have lost it. Because he clings it along his bike keys. And he did reach here riding the bike. Now going down 13 floors is not very bad. Because he was more than sure the key was left on the bike. But climbing up again!!?

6:09 PM 9-May-2008: On a usual day it takes 30 seconds for me to open the door after parking my bike (I did count it!!). And I used to complain how lazy our lift was. But not anymore. It just took 45 mins for Roby today. His inherent clumsiness though was not to be blamed this time. It's just the bad day. So what will happen when you try to switch on lights on a bad day?? You get a shock??? Wrong again!!! In our unfortunate hero's case, there was no power in the house. No lights.. No fans.. No AC (We don't have it anyways). And it is rather hot these days in Bangalore. At least for a moment he thought it's all part of the conspiracy. The IT industry booming in Bangalore, Concrete jungles being built, Trees being cut down, as a result Bangalore climate stop behaving like Bangalore climate anymore. All these to make this bad day for him. You do think weird when you get hit on your head, don't you?

6:12 PM 9-May-2008: No Water... Neither drinking.. Nor bathing...


6:15 PM 9-May-2008: No power still.. It's hot still.. But there is music now. It's a symphony played by dipteron orchestra. Yes Mr. Naveen has yet again forgotten to close the balcony doors when he left in the morning. And now there are more mosquitoes in the house than the number of alphabets in this page. And they all have just one source of inspiration, Roby Abraham Daniel.

6:30 PM 9-May-2008: No power still.. It's hot still.. trying to sleep...

6:45 PM 9-May-2008: When you are the lone audience for a play. And if you doze off. Won't the actors get irritated?? So did the mosquitoes. They attacked him more fiercely.


7:01 PM 9-May-2008: He tried his best to fight them... but of no joy. He had more sweat on his body than.. whatever.. (authors should not conclude, they should leave the scope of imagination for the readers. That is the excuse for the lack of my imagination).

7:31 PM 9-May-2008: I opened the door. Switched on the main switch. turned back. Saw Roby... Expression: PRICELESS!!!

By the way if you are wondering what the hell is the relevance of the heading. Nothing!!! it's just a cheap trick to get more hits on this page.