"I was going through my old archives and found this one written on Tuesday, September 19, 2006, 2:22:56 PM. This is the time when the whole Nest was active into blogging. This is one of the unforgettable moments in our nest life. The World Famous, "Edward Jones" story !!! Most of the original happening is captured in part 1, I hope to capture the rest in another part as I need to revive my cerebral cells to remember those moments! "
"Uff... Just 2 more hours and Weekend is gonna end buddy"....Logic always wants to wake up to a weekend...well err.. for that matter every 1 in our nest want the same...:)
It was a sunday night ... after an active and excited friday's eve volley ball game...sumptous food ...and saturdays's cricket and dinner outside....and sunday's volley and a film...nest along with balaji n shakthi...were chattin...literally delaying the end of a weekend... every one were so sober and dulll..
1 more hour and all our phones would start ringing to hear the offshore folks monday morning calls....but the phone rang well before that ...time was 9pm... well this phone call made our weekend!
(Important background info to understand this happening: Gopi, Vasu, Maddy n Nirupen were all newbies to minneapolis and stayed in apartment 101, we call it Exit 101 as we used to go through their apartment (literally) to our volley ball court every evening. Needless to say we lived in the same building, they were on the ground floor and we were on the first floor)
Nirupen: Hello...dinakarrr?
Me: solra nann thaaan...
Nirupen: dinakr veetle firealarm adichichu...ethaachum problem ma?
Me: Enne aachu da??
Nirupen: ille dinakar samayal la oru techincal mistake..ore pogai..alarm adichidhu..
Me: acha cho!!
Nirupen: enne dinakar..ethachum probs sa..cop vanthruvaangala??
Me within myself ...(aaaha..payyan gili la irukaan pole..sari oru bit ta poduvom..)
Me: dei ethana vaati adichithu da...
Nirupen: 5 times dinakar..enne dinakar enne aagum cop ku signal poguma??
(Payyan sikki irukaan vitruvomaa???...The fun starts now...)
Me: ada enne da ipdi panniteenga...cop ku kandipa signal..poirukum...he'll call in any minute..
just tell him that u ppl were cookin and therez nothin serious...sariya?
Nirupen: ok dinkar...peria problem ethuvum illela...
Me: ille da..but call varum bothu paathu pesunagadaaa...
Nirupen: sari vachudren... bye..
Balaji(BJ): enne da matter...? Yaaru apprentice a?
Me: Yeah, Nirupen call pannan... fire alarm adichirukku balaji..pasanga konjam payanthutaanunga..ipo thaane US vanthrukaanga...chumma cop call varummunu oru bit ta potean...
BJ: adhu sari...aaaama...Namma call panna enne??
(Everyone paused for a moment and were zoned in on Balaji...)
Me: BJ...namma ph # thaan avunungalukku theriyume...kandu pidichuduvaananunga..
Bhai: dai Theo new # theriyaathu da...athula pannala..
Me: mmm.. okie balaji pakka accent la pesanum...ok va?
BJ: sari da oru towel kodungada..Ph a moodi vachuttu pesalam...illena kandupudichuduvaanunga
With everyone around Balaji and the phone on speaker mode....Balaji dialled Exit 101's land line #
(ph rings on the other side)
Gopi: Halo..
BJ: Hello this is special officer Edward Jones calling from Richfiedl Public safety department.
Gopi: Ayyo..yes yes ...huh...sir
BJ: It has been come to our notice that a fire alarm went out in your aptment...Is everything okay there?
Gopi: yes no..yes sir..we are cooking and fire came out..
BJ: Fire?? did you say fire
Gopi: no sir..smoke came and that's it.
BJ: You have actually violated the safety regulations of the state and there by I need a proper explanation
Gopi: Sir...we were cooking in coooker the rice sir, so pressure out and came smoke sir..then the alarm fire...sir
BJ: What!! did you say Fire again?
Gopi: No no no sir...only rice smoke....
BJ: You have violated the rules and not answering me properly...Based on the county rules, you would have to pay $1000 or 2 days under detainment in county prison...What do you want to do?
Gopi: After a pause.....and discussing with roomies...Sir we will pay fine sir... No jail...sorry sir...it is by accident sir....
BJ: ok, I'll be there in 5 minutes to inspect your home, do any of you have Guns?
Gopi: no no no sir...no gun...
BJ: Good. I'll give you a call back once I reach your apartment.
Phone Cliks.
The whole room burst into laughter....Usual than normal we all were rolling on the floor other than Theo...Theo was excited and contained his smile within himself....
Exactly 30 seconds later, we got another call, everyone knew who called us this time ...
rest in part 2...
