The Gentleman

Scene I

I remember talking to my childhood friend. Prashant works in the marketing department of a multinational firm. He was narrating me an incident. Like all young men, he was on high after visiting a hip and happening night club in Mumbai. The girls swinging to the music, danced with him too, though he did not entice them with money, as others were doing. What a personality boost for a young man? Utterly at peace with himself and world, he was roaming aimlessly with a friend. A man approached them,
“Good night sir! How are you?”
Of course they were fine. Nothing could go wrong with those two bachelors at those moments.
“We are fine. Thank you.” In generosity he extended his hand.
“Sir I have a good thing for you, if you care to have a look.”
What harm an inanimate thing could possibly do?
“OK, where is that thing? ”
“Sir, just take the right turn.”
They came across with a girl, still in her adolescence.
“Very fine thing sir! Just spare a glance in her direction!”
Those young men summoned whatever acting power they possess. They passed it off as everyday phenomenon of their executive life. Lest anybody caught them behaving like blushing schoolboys in their mid twenties!
“Yaar! Go and find some other customer……” He tried to percolate some coldness in his tone.
“Sir, just see her once!”
Without replying they walked away. He caught up with them.
“Just see her once, Sir!”
Both of them tried to turn tail and fled from the scene of action.

Scene II

Ashish is in USA right now, writing hundreds and hundreds of lines, termed as code, in front of a dumb PC. A gentleman wished to meet him, when he was in India. He did not have to use too much of his brain to sort out the purpose of the visit.

The gentleman kept inviting him to his house for tea / lunch / dinner/ breakfast, whatever Ashish could manage! Deadlines always rescue software guys! Deadlines seem too deadly. Ashish tried this for the sake of being polite.
But the closing date shield failed to ward off the gentleman.

Ashish is famous for his one liners. He don’t need any sharp Rampuri knife to cut anybody to size! But hats off to the gentleman’s persistence. He was made of sterner stuff.
Changing strategy, he talked about meeting on the neutral ground. In the end The Gentleman too revealed the trump card, to fix his daughter’s marriage to an eligible bachelor…
“Just see the girl once!”