How Your Weekend Can Be Ruined

How Your Weekend Can Be Ruined

You were looking forward to the weekend after a week of early mornings. Every day you climbed out of bed at 5am thinking “just 4 more days…just 2 more days…”

And when your weekend is here, you think you can sleep in late (at least till 10, before the traffic picks up) but that’s not to be. At 6am sharp, the building next door starts drilling – LOUDLY. You bury your face in your pillow and try your best to shut the noise out.

But since it’s not your day, the cell phone trills right in your ear. It’s daddy dear wanting to know how the dinner went last night. You really want to tell him, “Dad I’ve got a slight hangover, I’d like to sleep, just for a bit more”. But you don’t, of course. You don’t want to give him a shock at 7am. Instead, you hang up promising to call him at a sane hour.

You barely reach your subconscious when the phone shrieks, again. It’s your friend saying the flat next door to theirs is empty, if you want to move in. You mumble incoherently and cut the call. All that and it’s not even 8am on a holiday!

Clearly the day isn’t going too good. So you decide you might as well wake up and watch some TV. How naive of you to think you could do that; don’t you know it’s not your day? As punishment for thinking that you could indulge in something like that, the always prompt Bangalore city’s electricity gods decide to black out your part of the city.

Ha. But there is a greater God above, and you pull out your laptop and connect with the world. Then again, it’s a tough battle between the invisible and intangible God in heaven and the omnipresent gods here on earth. And the latter is winning the battle as the battery of your laptop is blinking furiously, threatening to die out any minute. It has to happen just when you’re chatting with a friend you haven’t spoken to in years.

At 2% of battery remaining, the one above wins the war and lo, there’s light in the world! You switch on the TV- all riled up at the way things have been going so far. All you need now is some nice song that’ll lift your mood. And whaddya know, you get just the song you need.