chobis ghanta paani ...
For the last two days Sushant and myself have been roaming around Bombay in search of a jhopdi where we can fit in 2-3 computers and start our kaam dhaam. Man! ... It has been one wierd experience.
On Friday morning I land up at Malad and go over to some place called Evershine apartments. On my way Sushant calls me up and tells me "ek ghar dekha hai. achaa hai. lekin abhi kuch final nahin karna. tu aake kaam mein taang adaa denaa". I land up there, see Sushant and get introduced to the estate agent.
This is where the wierd stuff starts ... (haan bhai, whatever Sushant told me on the phone wasn't wierd enough) ... this estate agent apparently can never stand still. He either rubbs his nose, or sways from one leg to the other, or hikes his left shoulder almost as though its disjointed, or does something even wierder. I was torn apart between whether he reminded me of the movie Nagina (Sreedevi's thumkas) or the Mister Bean show (his swaying elegance).
So we walked behing Pankaj bhai and went off to the place. Decent place. We see it and come back. And then I do my 'thing'. That is taang adaana and no, I dont try to outdo Pankaj bhai at his moves.
We move on from there. We go to some Mhada place. Lousy buildings, and another estate agent who looks as though he is half asleep. He asks us how much deposit we would give. When we say 25000, he is surprised that we would give so much! That speaks loads of how god-forsaken that location is. Before this we have gone through 10 other deals with no success only cause no one wants to give it for less than 50000 as deposit!
Anyway, leaving that Aiel waste, we go on to this house that we finally liked a bit. We liked it a lot actually. It was decently spacious. There was a water tank right in front of the building in front of a huge temple. The area was quite. At the same time the station was walkable. Rent was affordable too.
Now, I ask the estate agent .. "bhai, idhar paani kitna time aata hai" .. the response .. "24 ghantaa sahab" .. so i walk in and open the taps .. no water .. not even a trickle ..
Ashok bhai the estate agent here refuses to believe that anything is wrong and starts giving me anologies of how there were 80 families and how could 80 families live without water?!! .. the poor chap was scandalized that I could even suggest that there might not be 24 hours water!! .. oh, ofcourse he refused to consider the minor issue of there being no water in the house at that points in time. Ironically after a while, we had to console him and apologise that we doubted the water being there.
Nice fun ... I would love to do this more often!
-Kashyap
On Friday morning I land up at Malad and go over to some place called Evershine apartments. On my way Sushant calls me up and tells me "ek ghar dekha hai. achaa hai. lekin abhi kuch final nahin karna. tu aake kaam mein taang adaa denaa". I land up there, see Sushant and get introduced to the estate agent.
This is where the wierd stuff starts ... (haan bhai, whatever Sushant told me on the phone wasn't wierd enough) ... this estate agent apparently can never stand still. He either rubbs his nose, or sways from one leg to the other, or hikes his left shoulder almost as though its disjointed, or does something even wierder. I was torn apart between whether he reminded me of the movie Nagina (Sreedevi's thumkas) or the Mister Bean show (his swaying elegance).
So we walked behing Pankaj bhai and went off to the place. Decent place. We see it and come back. And then I do my 'thing'. That is taang adaana and no, I dont try to outdo Pankaj bhai at his moves.
We move on from there. We go to some Mhada place. Lousy buildings, and another estate agent who looks as though he is half asleep. He asks us how much deposit we would give. When we say 25000, he is surprised that we would give so much! That speaks loads of how god-forsaken that location is. Before this we have gone through 10 other deals with no success only cause no one wants to give it for less than 50000 as deposit!
Anyway, leaving that Aiel waste, we go on to this house that we finally liked a bit. We liked it a lot actually. It was decently spacious. There was a water tank right in front of the building in front of a huge temple. The area was quite. At the same time the station was walkable. Rent was affordable too.
Now, I ask the estate agent .. "bhai, idhar paani kitna time aata hai" .. the response .. "24 ghantaa sahab" .. so i walk in and open the taps .. no water .. not even a trickle ..
Ashok bhai the estate agent here refuses to believe that anything is wrong and starts giving me anologies of how there were 80 families and how could 80 families live without water?!! .. the poor chap was scandalized that I could even suggest that there might not be 24 hours water!! .. oh, ofcourse he refused to consider the minor issue of there being no water in the house at that points in time. Ironically after a while, we had to console him and apologise that we doubted the water being there.
Nice fun ... I would love to do this more often!
-Kashyap
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