Wander Lust

This ‘Kashmir trip’ is now getting on our nerves. Everybody knows this isn’t happening and yet, we seem to be going on and on about it every morning. Even Shekhawat knows it is impossible to muster the 42 members necessary to fill a railway coach (yesterday's post). Besides there are expenses involved, not everybody can afford. And the distance. Many members are saying that while they are willing to go, their family will not permit them. To go on such a long journey, they say, is too much of a risk… lest something untoward happens.
One thing is however, clear. Our members have been bitten by the travel bug, right and proper. They are even prepared to go on a day trip to Royal Garden Resort ("so what if we’ve already been there several times?") as long as it offers a break from their daily chores. If Kishor Babani was here (too bad he’s away with family at Shirdi), he’d have suggested Wagah Border and everyone would have jumped at it. Somebody suggested the Kerala backwaters and Monthi Serrao said it can happen only next year. But that sounds too, too far away in the distant future. They all want a trip now, as in yesterday.
On his part, Srichand Arora came up with the Mahabaleshwar idea. Instantly everyone was game, even as it would have to be an overnight stay over the week-end – starting out on a Friday night and returning on Sunday evening. Barring two or three members, nobody seems to have gone to Mahabaleshwar – not even Shekhawat. The odd part is that barely one year back, the same Mahabaleswar idea fell through because no one was prepared to spend a night there. Today, that is not an issue at all. After three nights at Goa last month, they have all become bold and daring. They have tasted blood!
Harish Wadhwa:
The good part is that people have some nice topics to discuss, which can bring them closer as a family. Isn't it nice that they are all talking more with each passing day?
Dilip Babani:
Harish-bhai you are right. This is because our secretary now has become very, very, very good to everybody. Now he is very-very-very-very soft spoken. Before he was strict and disciplined. Now he is our hero in Big Laaf. Every member respects and loves him!