Perhaps it was in the year of 1978 or early part of 1979,I was posted as Branch Manager of our Pathshala Branch in Assam.And I was very young and hardly any experience to become branch head but our development manager assured me that the bm's chair would teach me the job.The branch manager's residence was on the first floor of the branch premise.Since I was bachelor I used to take lunch and dinner from one of the local resident against very notional payment.But for my morning tea and breakfast,I had to go to a nearby sweet meat shop RAJHSNS by name.The shop was run by an ever smiling local person with a tremendous sense of wit and humour. The shop was famous for its excellent quality of tea and morning samosa.Thr cost of one glass of tea was 25 paisa at that time and even then it was considered to be high by the current market price.I used to take two glasses of tea every day.
One day tea was served to me and just before sipping the tea,I heard a noise and found one person was shouting to that shop owner pointing out to a dead mosquito floating on his glass of tea.He was very agitated but the shop owner took the glass from him coolly and replied him in Assamese which can roughly be translated as"Hey Mr.Against payment of 25 pause only, what do you expect !A helicopter or a mosquito in your tea glass!" The customer was speechless and me felt a sensation of butterfly in my stomach being rolled out as riot of laughter!
Perhaps it was in the year of 1978 or early part of 1979,I was posted as Branch Manager of our Pathshala Branch in Assam.And I was very young and hardly any experience to become branch head but our development manager assured me that the bm's chair would teach me the job.The branch manager's residence was on the first floor of the branch premise.Since I was bachelor I used to take lunch and dinner from one of the local resident against very notional payment.But for my morning tea and breakfast,I had to go to a nearby sweet meat shop RAJHSNS by name.The shop was run by an ever smiling local person with a tremendous sense of wit and humour. The shop was famous for its excellent quality of tea and morning samosa.Thr cost of one glass of tea was 25 paisa at that time and even then it was considered to be high by the current market price.I used to take two glasses of tea every day.
One day tea was served to me and just before sipping the tea,I heard a noise and found one person was shouting to that shop owner pointing out to a dead mosquito floating on his glass of tea.He was very agitated but the shop owner took the glass from him coolly and replied him in Assamese which can roughly be translated as"Hey Mr.Against payment of 25 pause only, what do you expect !A helicopter or a mosquito in your tea glass!" The customer was speechless and me felt a sensation of butterfly in my stomach being rolled out as riot of laughter!
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