The Mystery Of The Disappearing Mangoes
This is an interesting incident which happened around this time last year. I just thought I would put it up on my blog for you guys (and gals) to enjoy.
One fine sunny day I woke up from my afternoon nap to find something stuck up in the mango tree in front of my room.
Usually throw all sorts of garbage at the trees, so its no big deal. (Right now there is a broken chair, a computer cabinet and someguy's suitcase hanging from the tree.) But this was not garbage (debatable point
), this was my next door neighbour Pungi.
It turned out that Pungi was hungry and since all nearby food outlets were closed at that time of the day, he decided to relish himself on some raw mangoes (kairi).
Now it so happened that since man is a greedy creature, he ended up getting a few more mangoes than he could eat. Correction: make it A LOT more.
So after distributing loads and loads of mangoes to everyone we knew, we were still left with close to 2 dozen mangoes.
Now the obvious question was - What does one do with 2 dozen mangoes? The obvious answer, ofcourse, was - SELL!! So out we went in search of a nearby vegetable market in this mad mad world.
A mad mad world indeed!
We had imagined that people will come rushing to us in hoardes on seeing our merchandise. As it turned out, selling fresh mangoes was a lot more difficult than we had imagined in our weird minds.
After about 3 different vegetable vendors, we finally found one who was willing to buy out our mangoes.
The rate was not much (C'mon people start eating more raw mangoes!!!) but we ended up making about Rs. 60 ($ 1.5) Writing that in dollar equivalent has just made me realise the whole lack of fruitfullness of the entire episode.
And what better to do with money made by selling mangoes than by spending it on mango juice .
15 minutes and 4 glasses later, we were 2 very satisfied men.
P.S.: Its that time of the year again. Expect a 2nd part of this post real soon.
This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 01, 2006 at 3:58 AM.
Wednesday, March 01, 2006 5:33:00 AM Posted bygood god.
is all dat i can say.
;-)
Wednesday, March 01, 2006 5:42:00 AM Posted by
That story could not have been better unless it involved robots and pirates and astronauts and zombies.
And even then, the plot would be adequate. Mango.
Wednesday, March 01, 2006 10:25:00 AM Posted by
what does induslogic do ? pls pls don't tell me it is an IT firm and u r going to code ... u seem just too creative for that.
Wednesday, March 01, 2006 11:24:00 AM Posted by
@closetalk: my reaction on recalling that episode eggjactly :P
@gyrobo: will make sure that the next adventure involves all those...and more >:)
@guppie: unfortunately induslogic is an IT firm and i am goin to code but there are a gaziliion ways to unleash creativity. thanks for the compliment btw (blushing)
Wednesday, March 01, 2006 12:38:00 PM Posted by
I also code. HTML mostly. Also Java.
But that doesn't stop me from unleashing all that creativity every day.
Hoo ha!
Wednesday, March 01, 2006 2:09:00 PM Posted by
Exactly my sentiments gyrobo! :D
Wednesday, March 01, 2006 4:33:00 PM Posted by
Another bright morning and i enjoyed reading this post for its simplicity, raw mangoes, the traffic lights, shri ganesh juice centre...love those sugarcane and for PUNGI!!!
i remember outside my college we had a shop which sold sugarcane juice. One day, a proud owner of an elephant(he was sitting on the elephant) came asking for money. The owner of the juice centre drove him away. The (angry)ELephant uprooted the Sugarcanes and started eating. We all feared . But later on it was fun, fun fun ....
GHB...this post is as refreshing as, that glass of sweet sugarcane juice, i enjoyed after my daily lectures.
Wednesday, March 01, 2006 7:42:00 PM Posted by
That was great! I loved the story w/pictures.
I also love mangos, but, have never eaten them fresh off a tree.(have never seen a mango tree until now)
Thursday, March 02, 2006 1:34:00 PM Posted by
Hey from madrid, i like the story of the Mango Tree. it was nice, a passerby here on your blog and it was really nice, i hope you could update more your blog!
Thursday, March 02, 2006 1:44:00 PM Posted by
Hey that's hostel property..u cann't just sell it out...whatever ..loved ur story...i m gonna try myyself..
I am anonymous. :D
Thursday, March 02, 2006 2:21:00 PM Posted by
@passerby: funny story about the elephant...thinking of trying that myself...hiring an elephant and terrorizing the neighbourhood :P
@l>t: now u did (i.e. see a mango tree) :)
@n.armstrong: greetings from india my frnd...thanks for stopping by and hope to see more of u arnd. and i do try and keep my blog well updated.
@anon: pungi and i will get to the mangoes before u...muahahahahahahaha
Thursday, March 02, 2006 9:54:00 PM Posted by
nice comic u put up on ur blog yaar. enjoyed reading ur dialogues under the pics.
so how was the mango juice? ::drool::
Thursday, March 02, 2006 11:28:00 PM Posted by
@mizfit: mango juice was nice...raw mango juice wud have been sweeter :P
Friday, March 03, 2006 7:01:00 AM Posted by
That is sugarcane juice :P
Tuesday, April 11, 2006 2:45:00 PM Posted by
pungi is goD :D
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