It's Sunday!!

Meaning of celebrating a day in our daily life can take a completely different meaning some times by mistake. I learnt this new fact of life today.

I felt how at times it could be disastrous but funny anecdote of life as well.

So many surprises occurring in just an hour’s time on January16 (2010) left me in peels of laughter, as I realized it all happened due to a silly mistake about the exact day, after I mistook Saturday for a Sunday.

As a routine, bosses take their weekly off on Sunday and the workload is relatively less. Hence, I had reason to be cheerful about the day.

Even in the morning by 9 o’clock, my senior colleague Pankaj Chaudhary’s call regarding some problem in a blog, felt a bit surprising. As I was astonished to think after all what made him turn up on this day, as he is also off on Sundays. It must be for increment, I felt, as he woke me up early in the morning (9’o clock)!

Feeling it was Sunday, I left early for office thinking it would allow me to leave for home on time or earlier, if nobody pointed out.

On my way to office, the sight of everything and everyone I usually come across on working days looked a bit like a ‘Surprise of the Day’.

I was perturbed to see so much traffic on roads despite it being a Sunday. I said: “Oh, this traffic has swelled actually beyond limit.” Usually, most of the office-goers’ vehicles are off roads. “So much cars, so many scooters and even Rikshaw-pullers are adding to the traffic snarls on a day like Sunday,” I said it myself.

Well, I arrived in office at 12.30, half-an-hour earlier, thinking the bosses will not be there. And, this was good enough reason to be happy. I was content that in any case I would not have to see the terrifying faces. I looked so cheerful, thinking it was Sunday and not much work would be there.

I climbed up the stairs to the third floor of the office building in a lesuirely mood. I felt so relaxed.

I was surprised to smell the aroma of food coming from canteen into stairs. “The canteen guy must be overworking or been forced to come for half day,” I thought and smiled.

But little did I have any idea that the friends I often find absent on Sundays would be greeting me today. Their full presence in office surprised me, as I kept walking towards my seat while responding with my smile and surprise to the “Hello” or “Good Morning Sandeep Sir”.

But the very first sight of my News Editor, Dixit assigning some task to a colleague in office near my seat, surprised me. How come he is there in office today? , I asked myself. Well, it could be some important work, which must have brought him to office today, I replied to myself.

I was surprised to see so many people being present on this 'Sunday'. I even asked one of my friends on Chatting box how come she was in office today...she didn't realise it .nor did it doubt my absent mindedness.

But I was woken up from my day-dreaming, only after a loving friend emailed for not greeting her as I do everyday, to say Hellooooo it's Saturday Kaurange ...

:)
I was speechless.