It was such a horrible day today. As usual, it was extremely busy and I was in the office for a good 14 hours. But that is besides the point and not the objective of the post.
Now there are 8 people in my team (in a bank, we call a team 'a desk'). We all have telephones on our individual desks, but there is a common number for everyone and there are 12-13 lines for the same number. So when a call comes, anyone can pick up and then transfer it to the person for whom it is meant. As I am the juniormost on my desk, I end up picking most of the calls. So today, this gentleman (G) calls up. I pick up the phone and this is how the conversation goes :
Me : Hello
G : Hi, Can I talk to MS please (MS is the head of my desk and is my boss)
Me : Sorry, but MS is on a call right now. Who is this?
G : This is John Wayne.
Me : John, Can I ask him to call you back?
G : Yeah thats fine
Me : Sure I will do that. Does he have your number.
G : Yes he does.
Me : Ok then. He will call you back.
G : Thanks.
Me : You are welcome. Bye.
G : Bye
So this was the conversation that took place. For some time, I completely forgot about this call. When I remembered, I went to my desk head (MS) and said - "MS, somebody called John Wayne called up for you". AND THEN ALL HELL BROKE LOSE.
Everyone stopped doing whatever they were busy doing and burst into guffaws. I was like WTF!!! MS just couldn't stop laughing, and he laughs so frikkin loudly that it can be heard at the other end of the trading floor. Imagine my condition - 7 people laughing at something I have no clue about and I am looking at them with a completely dazed and perplexed expression. After 5 minutes, when their roaring laughter subsided, I asked MS - what was so funny. And he bloody again went into fits of laughter. I was like - "Do you know any John Wayne or not?". He then went on and told me who John Wayne was.
Now how the hell am I supposed to know who this person is. He passed away much before I was born, nor have I seen any of his movies. Moreover, am not a big movie fan anyways. And that was not it, my bloody desk people kept laughing at it all through the day. Whenever someone remembered this incident, he started laughing out of the blue. People said that this incident would go into the folklore and what not. :((( This frikkin John Wayne made my life hell today. And this particular guy who had called up then sent a Bloomberg message to MS. He turned out to be a client of his and when he had called, he just felt like pulling the leg of the person on the other side (i.e. ME!!). Ugh - I felt like murdering both MS and G. I mean them expecting me to know who John Wayne was is like me expecting them to know who Akshay Kumar is. I am feeling sooooo ganwaar (illiterate) today.
Moreover, Prash left some comment on Swats' blog and half of it was like Greek to me. :((((
Not just that, I took some quiz that Kris Bass had mentioned in one of his posts. The objective of the quiz was to determine how depressed you are in life. I got a score of 20 which suggested that I was on the borderline of 'severe' and 'very severe' depression. I am sure this frikkin John Wayne incident had something to do with it. :(
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9 comments:
hehehehehe awwwwwwwwww hehehhehe
sorry even i cant help laughing..but this name John Wayne sounded familiar to me wen i read ur headline..
"I mean them expecting me to know who John Wayne was is like me expecting them to know who Akshay Kumar is".. I agree..rather ask them abt Madhubala or Prithviraj Kapoor..or hw Teji Bachchan died or abt the schizophrenic Parveen Babi..
and plz Rebel, just bcoz u dont know who John Wayne is doesnt make u ganwaar..(i didnt know abt Michelangelo's David until Prash told me..i dont understand rock music either..)u may b knowing a billion other things tht they dont know..to hell with John Wayne ;-)
N then test was a piece of shit..as for Prash's comment on my blog hehehe.. wenever this guy says something i ask him or google whtever i need 2 know..
and u r truly adorable ;-)
It doesn't matter that you didn't know John Wayne, you know that. Does it really matter if they laughed at you for a day? Laugh along, Rebel, it's better than getting all worked up over nothing.
We're all ignorant, some of us more than others, and because we can't know everything, we're bound to get laughed at or chastised in some other way for our ignorance. Best thing to do? Just laugh with them, unn ka bhi number aayega and they'll get laughed at too.
Oh, and those internet quiz results don't mean a thing. Psychologists would be chaupat (er, out of business) if internet quiz results had any truth behind them :)
@ Swats -> Yeah, John Wayne sounded a bit familiar to me too, but how could I have imagined that the client was playing a joke on me?!
And of course I know not knowing John Wayne is not a big deal, but my desk people made a bloody huge issue out of it. Annnnyhow, i suspect the quiz was true yaar.
@ Danu -> No yaar it doesn't matter that they laughed. I was just venting my anger. And as I have said above, I do suspect that the quiz was right.
Hi REBEL, a surprise is waiting for u at my blog, chk it.
Was it me, I would have gone mad ~ How dare the client make fun of people in professional life. That was MEAN ! (i would also add, not professional!). I am really sorry for you.
On the other hand, the telephone system at your office, I really don't like it, I would have broke myself into pieces if I was in that situation.
I am curious to know what comments you are talking about in swats blog. Am I really that incomprehensible ? ! ? I feel so bad now !!!
@ Renu -> Once again, thanks a lot..
@ Prash -> Heyyy....you took the post in the wrong sense I guess..this post was meant to be witty cos I really took the entire incident pretty lightly...
yeah the telephone system is bad...but thats the least of my concerns now...have grown used to it....
and no no, you are not incomprehensible, its just that I am not much into these things..the names of wines, the famous chefs and their cuisines n the likes...as long as it tastes good, m fine with it...:D...
ah ah ah ...those champagnes and wines are very personal ! My fav ones...it is not like Gucci or Armani that everyone knows!
gotcha ! ;-)
*Hypocrite Alert! Hypocrite Alert! Hypocrite Alert! Hypocrite Alert!*
So you're ganwaar because you're not in touch with Western Culture, is it?
*Hypocrite Alert! Hypocrite Alert! Hypocrite Alert! Hypocrite Alert!*
Oh, if I could run to every end of the globe screaming it out!
I think my depression score must be sub-zero at present :P :P
@ Unsung -> It is always good to sound the hypocrite alert before you visit my blog and comment on it..helps me read ur comment in the right perspective :)
Knowing that an actor by the name John Wayne exists is being in touch with western culture? tomorrow if I say that I know a country called America exists, you would start calling me American?
AND there is a world of a difference between calling yourself ganwaar and some other person ganwaar...and that difference is humility (a word that you are probably unaware of since birth, but I just hope you learn some day).
I din't quite understand your depression comment...it was meant to be sarcastic, especially in the light of what I wrote at the end..and should I reiterate that unlike some other ppl, I write the blog for myself and not as a publicity tool to flash how good (or bad) my english is...
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