You come across different kinds of people in your day to day  life with different brain quotient, mannerisms and completely different ways of thinking that may be just the opposite of what you think or have in mind!  During my 20 years of banking career with Oriental Bank of Commerce, I dealt with thousands of clients and staff and enriched my experience of dealing with each one of them not necessarily in the same way and often indulging in compromise for the sake of managing the branch affairs!   One such personality whom I can not forget  in the bank while working at Chennai was a Tamilian, quite fragile looking, advocate like behaviour and a strong memory power which could not be challenged at any point of time!  This gentleman named Mani(name changed) always had to say the opposite of whatever you say and used to insist that his view point is correct!  The net result was that you could never extract what you wanted from that particular person and it became a known phenomenon in the bank that Mr Mani would never listen to what seniors said ?  All the branch incumbents started ignoring this person for the simple reason that he will try and reason out not to fall in your line of thinking!  Quite often I was  pleasantly reminded of a joke that was in circulation in the 80s which goes like this:
Ram Lal a Jat from Haryana, an uneducated youth in his early 30s went for a job of manning  a Railway  level crossing.  He was confronted by a jury of higher officials and Engineers from the Rail Ministry  who posed a question to him.  Given a situational cloudy dark evening  with expected  thunder showers and gusty winds, you find that the fish plates of the rails near the level crossing  have been removed and in a matter of 15 minutes some Express train is going to pass by?  You as a  responsible gate keeper of the level crossing  notice this grave situation  and want to prevent the train from  passing and resulting in accident.  what will you do?

Mr Ram Lal  blinked for a while and mustered courage to say that he would immediately alarm the station master of the previous station by ringing him up on the railway phone  and urge him not to green flag the train as there are rails which are removed nearer to his level crossing.  Not to get convinced by the explanation that came forth, the officials again come up saying "Supposing the telephone lines are all down because of heavy showers"?

Pat came the reply from the eager youth in Mr Ram Lal saying "I would run towards the previous station shouting not to flag off the train"!

No, the interviewers remain stubborn not to get convinced and to rekindle the thought process,  pose a question back"suppose, on that given day  you are sick and down with fever and your voice is choked and down in the bin"?

Not getting worried, Ram Lal says I will hold some Red cloth and wave towards the train indicating danger ahead"?

The Railway officials quickly fires  yet another salvo"suppose there is no red cloth available in your vicinity"?

Disgusted with the officials not seeking solutins to the problem, he says"Sir, I have given some solutions with proposed actions and nothing seems to convince you all.  In that event,  I will wake up my wife and children and tell them to come out and see a real time train accident that they have been wanting to see for a long time"!!!

you come across so many faces and multiple personalities in your walk of life and there are so many with whom you would like to converse and there are equal numbers from whom you stand to gain experience!

my friend Su Ravi, a great pet from Pune wanted me to add this too:

n a 5th Grade Class room:

 

வாத்தியார்:   ராமு, உன்னை காட்டுல சிங்கம் துரத்தினா என்ன செய்வே?

ராமு:              பக்கத்துல இருக்கற மரத்துல ஏறி தப்பிச்சுப்பேன் ஸார்!

 

வாத்:             பக்கத்துல மரமே இல்லேன்னா?

ராமு:            சட்டுனு குளத்துல குதிச்சு மறைஞ்சுப்பேன்,

வாத்:            அங்க குளமே இல்லேன்னா?

ராமு:           ஒரு புதர்ல ஒளிஞ்சுப்பேன்

வாத்:            புதரே இல்லேனா?

 

ராமு,கடுப்பாகி : யோவ், நீ யார் கட்சி-என கட்சியா, சிங்கம் கட்சியா அத மொதல்ல சொல்லு

 

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