Friday, March 17, 2006

Phone call

5:37 pm

“Hello?”

“Mr. Sanjeev?”

“Yes?”

“How are you this evening?”

“Uh – look, I just sat down to dinner.”

“When’s a more convenient time?”

“How about never?”

click

6:30 pm

“Hello?”

“Mr. Sanjeev?”

“Yeah?”

“How was dinner?”

“What? Oh. Hey, let’s be honest here. I can’t stand you people, always interrupting meals, T.V., time with my family. Whatever you’re selling, I’m not interested.”

“I apologize, but - ”

click

7:15 pm

ring…

click

7:45 pm

“Hello?”

“Mr. Sanjeev?”

“I thought I told you – ”

“Did you listen to the message I left?”

“You mean when you called, what, twenty, thirty minutes ago?”

“Yes.”

“You’re so annoyingly persistent!"

“Did you listen to the message?”

“No!”

click

9:45 pm

“Hello?”

“Mr. Sanjeev?”

“Ssshhhit…”

“If I could just take a few minutes of your time.”

“No. N. O. No. No, no, no!”

click

11:30 pm

“What?”

“Mr. Sanjeev?”

“O God!”

click

11:33 pm

11:36 pm

11:39 pm

11:45 pm

11:48 pm

“Listen, you idiot, I’m calling the police. I’m giving them all the numbers you’ve called from. Then I'm going to sue you, your company and your family. You got that?”

“Got it, but Mr. Sanjeev, just let me say three words.”

“You’re digging a deeper hole, buddy.”

“Kraakan Sum Tweetz.”

“Excuse me?”

“Kraakan Sum Tweetz.”

“Uh…”

“Do you understand?”

“…”

“Mr. Sanjeev?”

“…”

“Hello?”

“Shit.”

“Do you understand?”

“Yeah.”

“What?”

“Yes. Yes, I understand. Sir.”

“Be ready in ten minutes.”

“Ten minutes?”

“You should’ve listened to me earlier. Kiss your wife goodbye, then prepare for transport. Our time has come.”

“Sir?”

“Nine minutes. Midnight.”

“Yes, sir.”

click

11:52 pm

“Honey? Who was that?”

“Nobody, dear. Just another marketing guy. Go back to sleep.”

“…”

“…”

“You haven’t kissed me like that in a long time.”

“I love you. Now go back to sleep.”

4 comments:

Murali said...

Me and padma reading this at my desk.... She says at teh end "uh hmm blah blah nange artha aaglilla !!" ... SO i make her focus on these three stmts :

“Kraakan Sum Tweetz.”
"then prepare for transport. Our time has come."

And i ask her, "who could make such statements, especially the last two?"

And she, who looks stoned by now under the pressure of NRTing, says in a very soft tone "Love!??!"

What do i say?!?! To quote phoebe's boyfriend...... "I wish i could take a mental picture of all this right now !..... CLICK!"

Krishna said...

Thanks Murali for helping others understand my blogs!

Anonymous said...

Kraakan Sum Tweetz
wat lang is this?

Krishna said...

It's an unknown language. Nobody knows the meaning. The intention is to create an eerie feeling when we think as to what it means to Mr. Sanjeev. Why is he suddenly scared?