[Story] hundred rupees note

Last Friday, I was in full happy mood to go home. I stay in bangalore for work and my parents are in home at madurai. No wonder why I was happy. I packed everything and rushed to Madiwala among the heavy slow moving bangalore traffic. With a huge risk i got into the 8.30 parveen travels bus at 9pm. ha.. the bus also has to come through some traffic!

My seat number was f1, a window seat. Next to me in f2 there was a mid aged man sitting and talking to himself and sometimes to me. Though I dint care for it, I could understand it was his frustration for bangalore traffic. The bus started and I slept, In my dreams....

"A parveen travel bus stops on the way for tea/ snacks. People in the bus are sleepy and no one is getting out of their seat. A small boy from the tea shop comes into the bus, I am looking at him. He tells everyone individually that he can bring them tea to their seat. He is so eager to get some order. When he comes to e1, the seat in front of mine, he gets an order for tea, probably from a software engineer. I will tell you why it must be a software engineer - that person gave 10 rupees and asked the boy to have the change as tips. ok.. then the boy comes near my seat and asks, "what can I do to get hundred rupees note as tips". The already frustrated person at f2 scolds him and asks him to get down. I stop the boy and ask him, "what will you do if you get a hundred rupee note". The boy did not reply how he will spend it, but told that "I will sleep this week" :( I take a new 500 rupee note from my purse and give it to him. I could see the happiness on his face :) He turns around, runs and jumps out of the bus, probably for a good sleep. I was happy."
and my neighbor woke me up saying madurai has come.

Just as I woke up, I checked my purse to find that the new 500 rupee note that I took from SBI ATM was missing.

wise servants - II

continuation of wise servants
We started discussing about the morning theft in mails. It was like a detective story. Here is the gist of the discussion:

* Was there a possiblity of any one being hidden inside house the previous night itself?
* The cook brings one more assistant to our house. We were not sure whether both left the house.
* The kitchen has a 'paran' in which we have dumped old clothes - nice place to hide.
* when the cook left, his partner might not have left and stayed in the 'paran' till midnight. In midnight, he came down, looted everything and silently went out.
* My purse was on the shelf, which could not be seen easily unless otherwise noted previously. The cook could be the informer.
* The cook has been asking for hike for the past 3-4 months.
* When Sathyan told about the theft to the cook he just told ok.
* When we spoke to the cook next evening, we saw some artificial smile in his face. (May be our perception).
* We have been hearing lot of thefts in the last two weeks in our area.

One other option is a long thin handed person should have opened both the latches of the door while hanging on the windows. This as far as we could see is impossible.
So, we concluded the cook as the culprit.

Moral:
"We should not have the same servant or stay in the same rented house or use the same credit cards for more than one year - You may be noted"

wise servants

I never believed whenever someone blames their servant for the things missing in their home. But recent interactions with my cook proved it wrong. Let me tell one true detective story.

One early morning 6.30, I heard one of my roommate(Prabakar) panicing that the door is open. As I woke up, my other room mate (Sathyan) told that his mobile is missing and asked us to give a call. Yes, his number was not reachable. Then, three of us were talking some things in choas, and one other roommate(Sakthi) told that his purse is gone. I looked for my purse - it was also not there :( We were worried about the credit/ debit cards that were there in the purses. Luckily our lappy's and other items were in place.

Both of us took the bank customer care numbers from net and started blocking the cards. In between, Praba told that my purse is lying outside the door. Yes, except for around 100 rs cash everything including cards were in place. habba... we started searching the other purse. After some 2-3 mins search, got that too in the same condition. Again thanks to Praba. Now all started asking Praba for the mobile :)

We were almost happy. Asusual, the cook came and started his job. We were 101% sure that the door was locked with two latches before we slept the previous night, and there is no other way into the house. There was no damage on the door or anywhere else. The door latches were quite far to reach with hands through the window, and they are quite strong to open with any hook. We were wondering how the thief could have done this...

How we traced the culprit will be available in my next blog.

my first blog

This would be the first blog title for most blog writers..... No exception here. The next couple of blogs are for what I have started writing blogs.