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BHPian ![]() | ![]() This incident happened about couple of years back. Background, I was traveling back from Texas to Bangalore. I was taking international flight from JFK via well known Indian international flight. On arrival at JFK and waiting for hours, got to know the flight has been canceled and we need to catch another flight from Newark. Transportation was arrange and things went fine, I reached Bangalore safe n sound. After 2 days my baggage has not yet arrived. I called up airlines desk number and a lady pickup's up. Lady: this is India's well known Indian international airlines and you are talking to so-n-so.. how can I help you Me: Hello, my name is this.. and I explain her the story on what happened, of flight getting canceled at JFK Lady: sir, may I have your boarding pass number Me: given Lady: sir, may I have your passport number Me: given Lady: <after checking locally> your baggage will be handed over in a day or two Me: Thanks and what about the compensation because I have not received my baggage even after 2 days? <greedy me> ![]() Lady: huh' you have Indian passport Me: so what? Lady: we dont give any compensation to Indians Me: what?? how does it even matter? I havn't received my luggage and it will take another 1-2 days more for you people to return Lady: still sir, you are Indian and you have reached your home. Me: pass the phone to your manager Lady: give me few minutes <after a long silence> Lady: sir, sorry my mistake.. we will compensate with Rs. 5000 /- My happy! Got money and received the baggage without having to go through customs ![]() |
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Senior - BHPian ![]() Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Trivandrum, KL
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| ![]() A friend of mine had come down from Australia, he is an Aussie and was down here for a week, holidaying. He called me up last day and told me he wanted to go shopping and asked me to pick him from the hotel which is a lil’ far off from the city. I dropped by his hotel and picked him after office. Headed straight to KFC and after filling up, as the car was already parked in a good slot, we set out by foot for the shopping. After a while, I noticed him walking into a few casual wear shops and walked right out within no time as if he was looking for something and couldn’t find it. I asked him what it was and he told, he was carrying only formals and was looking for some nice..ahem, wait for it..thongs I was like, Fish!, now what am I gonna do? He was walking in and out of stores asking for thongs and there I was standing with all the blood drained out of my face. Not to be judgemental, I was wondering how all this while I didn’t have a clue that he was..ahem. I was keeping my fingers crossed not to come across a lingerie shop on our way. After a while he too got fed up and told he wanted to grab a burger, we walked into Pothys and then he saw a sign “Men’s/Undergarments/Footwear” – 5th Floor”, there we go again! The moment we reached the floor and walked off the escalator, his face lit up, I knew he found what he was looking for, I prepared myself for the embarrassment of my lifetime. He went and picked up a pair of flip-flops and came back and asked, where we pay for this? Wha?? That’s it? Then it occurred to me that flip-flops were called thongs in Australia. What a great land. Nearly gave me a heart attack. Pheww!! |
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| ![]() On a road trip to Spiti (HP) I and wife were enjoying the beautiful vistas on the road to Nako when I suddenly hear a loud pop! I disengage the car usb charger immediately fearing some connection getting short circuit and stop the car on the side. I try to smell smoke but there's none in the car, try to feel the usb cable burning hot but its normal, everything from the galaxy tab to the cable to the usb plug seems alright, pretty sure the loud pop was from inside the car. Fearing worse, I step out to look for a flat tyre, but why a sudden pop in tubeless? Is that how tubeless tyres burst? No damage to the tyres! Fearing the worst now, did the spare tyre go bust? How the hell can the spare tyre burst like that!! I off-load everything that was in the boot of our swift (for a 10 day mountain trip, imagine), including the half ton equivalent rainbow sub but the spare looks alright too. What could've possible popped? Fuses? Is that how fuses blow? But I have no clue where the fuses are, I try to look under the dashboard and see the fuses but not sure how to make out which one popped. Are all lights working? Yes. Are wipers working? Yes. Can I turn the car off and then back on? Yes. What in the world popped then?!! How about the underbody? Can't make out if anything looks out of place. Inside the bonnet then? Engine bay looks alright as well. Having spent 20 mins trying hard to find the source I finally give up. I tell my wife that we better continue, whatever's gone bust should give out some signs sooner or later. We reach our destination for the day (Tabo) and no issues with the car till then. The next day we start again and somewhere in the afternoon we park the car to have tea and wafers/biscuits. I step down and get the munchies bag from the backseat. I see a Lays packet open in the backpack and annoyed at my wife I ask her why wouldn't she clip the packet when there's still some wafers left. She says why should she when she didn't open any! About 10 seconds of silence, the eureka moment and I shout out loud.... ...."This little bugger popped yesterday!!!" <thanks to the high altitude of Nako, the wafers packet popped open while we were driving up, my notion that something from within the car popped turned out true as well> While my wife laughed I heaved a big sigh of relief! ![]() Last edited by fine69 : 6th May 2013 at 18:37. |
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Distinguished - BHPian ![]() ![]() | ![]() So I get one more tele-marketer calling me this afternoon. It completely made my day. Guy doesn't speak English, which made the conversation hilarious. TM: Sir, mein Livestock se bol raha hoon. (Sir, I am calling from Livestock.) S: Livestock se? Kya kaam hai? (From Livestock? What are you calling for?) The name 'Livestock' brings forth images of cows, buffaloes and goats to my mind. I am curious now, though at other times I hang up unceremoniously on tele-marketers without proceeding beyond the first sentence. TM: Sir, aap sher rakhte hain? (Sir do you keep tigers?) (At least that's what I understood at the first instance, though apparently the person at the other end was asking whether I trade in the stock market.) S: Nahin, lekin aap ke paas gaay, bhains, bakri yeh sab hai kya? (No, but do you have cows, buffaloes, goats etc. with you?) (The caller is suddenly taken aback and stammers.) TM: Gaay? Bhains? Nahin, nahin, Sir, hum toh sher mein deal karte hain. (Cows? Buffaloes? No, no, Sir, we deal in tigers.) (Or was that shares?) S: Arrey bhaiya, sher toh livestock mein gina nahi jata, dictionary kholke dekho, livestock ka matlab sirf gaay, bhains aur bakri hi hota hai. Livestock mein sher, haathi, bhaloo yeh sab nahin aaate hai - woh toh jungle mein hi paaye jaate hai. (Bro, tigers are not included in livestock, check a dictionary, livestock means cows, buffaloes and goats. Livestock does not include tigers, elephants and bear - those are found wild in the jungles.) TM: (making one more feeble attempt to sell whatever he called me to sell) Nahin, yeh woh sher nahin hai. Aap ne sher market mein kabhi sher kharida ya becha hai? (No, this is not that sher (tiger). Have you ever bought and sold shares in the share market?) (I thought this fellow had properly put his foot into his own mouth. Time to go for the final cut.) S: Kyaa baat kar rahe ho? Market mein sher kharidna-bechna gayr-kanooni hai. Naa hi aap sher kharid-bech sakte ho, uska khaal, nakhoon kuchh bhi nahin kharid-bech sakte ho. Police pakad legi. (What are you talking about? Buying / selling tigers in the market is illegal. Not only can you not buy/sell tigers in the market, you can't even buy/sell its skin, nails etc. The cops will arrest you.) Frustrated tele-marketer hung up on me! If any of you are keen to buy/sell tigers and/or are interested in raising a farm, do call this guy at +91-79304-88643. ![]() ================================================== = By the way, at the rate the English language is being murdered in this country, I am not sure how many of you would want to visit this dentist to get yourselves a nice smile, but come back with a smirk. Last edited by SS-Traveller : 6th May 2013 at 23:19. |
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![]() Anyway, we continued the journey and reached home turf soon, much to our relief. While unloading all the luggage, we found a crumped, rubber mass crushed between all the luggage - my Football that I had carried for the trip. ![]() Last edited by KarthikK : 9th May 2013 at 12:53. | |
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Team-BHP Support ![]() ![]() | ![]() Couple days back, my 12 year old son came to my room to check his weight on the weighing scale. He: Oh, I am becoming too heavy... Me: Why don't you exercise regularly, instead of dropping out every other week. He: Yeah, I should exercise. Me: Ok, go right now. Run a few laps around the apartment building. He: Ok. So he went... and he gets back after 30 minutes. After removing the shoes, he was back in my room, and gets back on the weighing scale. He: This is useless. My weight hasn't changed a bit. Me: ![]() |
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