Monday, September 14, 2009

The missing staircase

I was enjoying my lunch at my earlier newspaper office, when I received a call from a lawyer-friend.
“Boss. I am on first floor,” he said.
“So?”
“I cannot go down.”
“What do you mean? Take the elevator or walk the stairs,” I replied, a bit irritated.
“That’s the problem. Being an old building, it has no elevators. And the huge wooden staircase has been removed by the landlord suddenly following a tussle between him and the tenants. We have been left hanging in the building,” he elaborated.
I laughed out. That they found a solution to the problem with the help of police is obvious.
The Times of India did carry my story in a box titled: “Staircase carted away in daylight.”

23 comments:

  1. a lawyer who hangs all was left hanging...not fair...I object...

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  2. Hi there Ramesh. Thank you for being in touch. I have missed you. I hope all is well for you and your family, my good friend. Much peace and love to all. xox Namaste

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  3. What a terrible landlord. What is he going to do next time a tenant makes him mad. Tamper with the plumbing? If I were your friend, I would find another place to live.

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  4. hehe...and i guess these things occurs when we re in the middle of very urgent cases..!! thats when these become too irritating...

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  5. ROFL!!!

    Classic this is & can happen only in India :D

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  6. You know I had climbed a wooden staircase in Demul (Spiti, India) and when I wanted to come down it was missing. But this was a prank by my nephew and my husband. They put it back soon.

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  7. My nephews and my husband did the same to me in Spiti but then within a minute they put the staircase back.

    What kind of a landlord is that!

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  8. is this for real??...im in complete disbelief!!

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  9. That's pretty funny! But not so for your friend.
    Sunny :)

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  10. What a situation! How many floors did the building have? Very amusing story.

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  11. what a thing to happen? you scared me with that onbe..imagine if it were to happen here in my office, I would be left hanging in there all day maybe even more..what with the eid thing coming up the police would just say inshahallah and snooze off!! phew!!

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  12. Poor tenants,bad -bad landlord....but a very good journalist friend .

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  13. he he...
    did he sue them landlord or the tenants??

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  14. Rush..your post on krsna temple's gr8..wanted to post a comment but failed..thanks for yr comment..if it was my imagination, then TOI would not have published it..2nd..if it was my imagination..then i deserve an award for such a wonderful piece of fantasy..heheheheh..what say? thanks ya...

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  15. Thats a terrible incident... and a funny title too.... nice one again....

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