Have you seen a paralyzed, critically ill old man on life support with a smirk like that marine in the movie ‘Full Metal Jacket’, who couldn’t wipe the smirk off his face?
Ramesh just now has.
The gentleman named Pinto Gonsalves is his friend’s father, and Ramesh has to watch over him till his friend gets back home.
If there was a Richter scale for measuring the sheer stink of gaseous emissions released soundlessly by mankind, then this is how it goes.
Pinto Gonsalves staring intently at the roof, first tests Ramesh with a mild 4.
Ramesh pretends nothing’s wrong.
But within seconds, eyes still staring intently at the roof, Pinto Gonsalves lets go a 6.
Ramesh thinks of the dictum ‘this too shall pass’.
Pinto’s smirk now however has a tinge of self-assurance as he lets go the 9.
Only Pinto Gonsalves knows what’s coming next but Ramesh cannot move…he is returning a favour you see.
If Ramesh had checked ixigo.com before coming to Bombay.
He could have stayed at a hotel for as little as Rs. 625.