Comeuppance

Sunita Jajodia

Sunita Jajodia had it coming. For far too long she had been bamboozling her way into getting things on her own terms regardless of majority opinion or established norms of the Club. But this morning, the ploy boomeranged horribly as she refused to exercise on grass and insisted on sticking to the concrete area outside the China Hut. Her excuse: There were live mosquitos hiding in the grass waiting to attack her with dengooooo!
Arun Patil helpfully pointed out that there were scores of people out there on the benches and they looked perfectly safe and sound. But Sunita Jajodia was adamant: “If you there, I shall go home!”
This time Shekhawat (otherwise a supporter of Sunita) took offence: “What does she mean by threatening to go home? Does she come here for our sake or to exercise?”
Still, to keep peace, he returned to the concrete area and the rest of us followed quietly. Suddenly out of nowhere, Razia Khan came thundering in with some others: “We were all waiting there (on the grass patch) and you have started exercising here. The least you could have done was to inform us.”
"This is utter nonsense,” muttered Ram Shankar Shukla.

Khatoon Baig brought samosas and chocolates

“One day you are here, the next day you are there. Why don't you people make up your minds?”
When they were told that Sunita was scared of mosquitos in the grass, they got all the more agitated. “To please one person, you cannot keep changing things,” Razia protested.
A rumble ran through the group over Sunita’s habit of objecting to whatever we did in the Club. Nothing ever got her approval. Sadly, Sunita found herself isolated. Nobody, not even her close friend Santosh Tyagi took her side. “Go ahead and exercise in the grass, but I will go home,” she threatened once again.
This was the limit. Sunita had to be told that she better not threaten us again because she wasn’t doing us a favour by exercising in the Garden. If anybody stood to gain, it was she herself.
However, all this was forgotten the moment Khatoon Baig appeared at the Gate. She was back from the United States of America, her first trip abroad and she had spent two enjoyable months with her folks in Las Vegas, San Diego and parts of Texas. Apart from chocolates, she carried a box of crispy hot samosas to mark her return. Welcome back, Khatoon-ji!
Srichand Arora:
Welcome back, Teacher-ji! We all at Big Laaf were missing you a lot. Thanks for such crispy hot samosas. I was really surprised and very impressed to see you with the Club cap which you remembered even after two months. Amazing!