Peculiar Problems

Following the furore yesterday (see post), signed notices appeared all over the Garden assuring everyone that there would be no change in timings and that the gate would remain open from 5.00 to 9.30 every morning as usual. Now, Nahid Khan (left) has a problem with that. She wants the gate to be open till 10.00 a.m. When told that it hardly makes a difference if she hangs around half an hour longer, she turned at the watchman, accusing him of the “nasty habit of chasing people out by blowing his whistle” at them. She has the painted notice outside the Garden gate to back her demand and in right earnest, went about moving heaven and Papneja to restore the status quo.
Nahid is not alone to be caught up in a peculiar problem. Kiran Sajjan (right) is another. Her son is getting married on January 26, 2013 at Pune and she does not know what to do. Should she invite people from the Club and if so, who? Or should she let it pass? If she gives a general invitation to the Club and someone accidentally turns up, will she have to provide for hotel stay? This is a huge problem. She has been consulting everyone and when told that she might as well restrict the invite to a reception in Mumbai, Kiran got all the more confused. The reception also is at Pune, she whispered.
Then we have Nafisa Sayyad (left) who came up with a self-created problem. She had been wanting to treat us to phapda-jalebi for long and today she was even carrying the money for it, she said. Srichand Arora advised her to keep the money safely and for better use, rather than waste it on something that would end up feeding sundry watchmen of adjoining buildings. But Nafisa was determined to give us a taste of phapda-jalebi today itself. She insisted that after the exercises we all accompany her to wherever phapda-jalebi is sold – failing which, we were welcome home. We took that as a rain check.
And then there was Hari Singh Shekhawat, overburdened by Rs100,000 collected for the March 2013 Himachal Tour. Finally, he found a willing recipient in Arora (pic above) to offload the currency notes – which will be further offloaded on a tour operator. Where else would you find such people having a problem with keeping money?
Jagmohan Papneja:
Having successfully completed the tour of famous destinations, Mr Shekhawat is now busy arranging the 'Himachal Trip'. Since he always has a solution to every problem, no doubt he can solve the problems of the three ladies featured.
Harish Wadhwa:
Solutions to the problems are simple:
(a) Nahid-ji may stay in the Garden for as long as she likes. If someone whistles at her, she should whistle back. We will put up her 'Sunday pic' on the Notice Board for people to know who 'she' really is.
(b) Kiran-ji may invite everyone. Those who can make it will have to make their own arrangements. If not, fine. Just send the gift money to her son!
c) It can never be a no from us, Nafisa-ji. We are 'ever ready'. Please get some phapda-jalebi tomorrow with some chai to flush it down.
(d) Shekhawat-ji has money problems? No problem, again. The Badmaash Company is willing to keep it and use it. With Dilip-bhai, it will multiply in two days flat on the stock market. Any more peculiar problems?