We have a fire drill in the office building next week.
Rather a harmless event, given that we are forewarned (unlike real instances where we need to act without prior intimation) and forearmed. In my company (the one I belong to, not the one where I sit) I used to be a fire-marshall, or the floor incharge. I even received fire-fighting training from the personnel belonging to the fire station nearest to our office. The training was much fun. I learned to differentiate between the A,B and C class of fire-extinguishers. Also learned how to use a water hose and how to change its flow. Much fun was had in the trainings.
(Uh. I think I went off-track there)
Coming back to the fire drill in this office. It is next week. So the security guards in the office were asked to carry out some preliminary rounds and talk to a few people regarding the same. On one such duty, this particular female security guard sidles up to my desk this morning. I look up at her enquiringly. This is how our conversation went :-
Me : Haan?
Female Security (FS) : Ek baat bolni thi aapse.
Me : Haan bolo.
FS : Agle week iss building mein fire drill hone wala hai.
Me : Haan, mujhe pata hai. Mail aaya tha.
FS : Madam, humko instructions mila hai ki office mein jitni bhi pregnant ladies hai, unka list banana hai.
Me : (remembering how we were trained to follow the same routine) Haan haan, sahi baat hai.
FS : Toh madam, aap pregnant hai na, issliye next week woh siren bajega to aap darna mat. Aapko pehle bahar nikalenge.
Me : 😯 *Stunned speechless*
FS : Madam?! Okay madam??
Me : (Finally able to breathe) Err…ummm…*ahem* *cough* Mai pregnant nahin hoon.
FS : 😯 OHHH !! Sorry madam….mujhe laga…… sorry madam.
(This is the cue for me to breakdown sobbing on my desk and for you to hold your tummy and guffaw out loud 😐 )
Me : Nahin nahin…koi baat nahin….
With gentle reassurances, the lady left my desk.
Needless to say peeps, am sorely upset today. I mean, my kids will turn three in a couple of month’s time…and here I am, still hanging on to my cesarean pouch as though my next kid lived in it 😦
Gaaaah!!
Ramzan went by and did nothing to give me a break! I still haven’t lost an ounce! Why O why does the fat love me so?! I’m so hopping mad today 👿 !! Haven’t mentioned the tale to the BF. Much ‘I-Told-You-So’s expected 😦 . You know, I’ve been trying real hard lately. I’ve changed my diet, have moderate meals , use the stairs and do as much physical work as possible. But looks like its all pittance in the vast ocean of adiposity (is that even a word?!).
*Sigh*
Can anyone please burn away this fat for me……or at least turn that water-hose on me and wash it away?!
Pretty please ?
😐
Actually I laughed before the cue! 😉
Ahh my dear Noorulayn, I was once asked if I was pregnant and I was not even fat, thin as a reed! So dontcha worry! Yeah, just in case you hear of some way to wash away or burn that fat, be sure to let me in on the secret! 😉
Such a funny post! 😉
Thanks Shail. The post might be funny…but the incident wasn’t 😦
There’s more the story now. Will do a post on it soon 😀
Ouch 😦 I can imagine that you’re feeling frustrated. I’m pretty much in the same boat with the oodles of fat sticking around like they can never let me go. At my sister’s wedding in December one of my mom’s friends took great pains to tell me how much weight I had put on for like 15 mins and in front of a 200 plus audience. Hang in there. Keep at the fat burning efforts. Someday we will get th(in)ere!
Aunty ki to aisi-ki-taisi!! Interfering busybody 👿
Thanks for the support…InshaAllah…hum honge kaamyaab (ek din 😀 )
I am so sorry…I understand what you are going thru after that lady assumed that you were pregnant…it has happened with me too, ?I have mentioned it over here http://adayinlifeofmom.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/small-talks/
I was so mad, wanted to punch that lady…
teddy bear hugs..
Uh oh…thats bad dear 😦
Read your post….must be rather upsetting 😦
same pinch and I join you in sobbing….only difference for me is that I’m just a 5 month old mom ! But so what…the days pass by at the blink of an eye and soon I’ll be a year old mom and I know I’ll be the same even then 😦
today only I was talking to my BFF and we just joked about we being SO fat and covering it under being new mommies etc…we finally arrived at the conclusion that the fat ka jode is like fevicol ka jode…chootega nahi 😦 and it gets depressing especially when I see my few years purane photos 😦 for a moment I also don’t believe that it could be me,sigh!
aa galel ag ja behna…main tere saath hoon !
Darling, you have plenty of time to correct the damage. alas, for me…the time came and went 😦
Thanks for the sympathy though…much needed as I now take stringent actions against the fat 🙂
That is one of the first things you never say to a lady.
How many people are aware of it Prats ?!!
😀
Babes…Same pinch..one college girl yesterday called me Aunty in the bus..and yaa a lot of people have asked me when is the due date for my second child..and R is 3+ *goes away sulking*
Uh-Oh!! Sailing in the same boat, are we 😀 !!
Come, let me join you in the sulking 🙂
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