Thursday, April 22, 2010

My ‘BBC’ is back

Al Wahda is a beautiful street linking Dubai and Sharjah. Sri Lankan MM works as a gardener on this street, watering and nurturing the eye-catching date trees for 18 years. He has been a great source of information, a one-man “BBC.” Any accident, how shops cope with recession, what, when, where, who, which, how.. He has ready answers.
We used to chat regularly. And suddenly I noticed he was missing. More than a month. I had no contact number and thought he must have gone back to native place.
Yesterday I saw him back at work.
What happened?
“They are planning a road widening project and shunted me to a far-off place. I worked for a month, but miss my lovely trees here. They are like my children,” he turned emotional. “I could not take it anymore and resigned.”
Then came the good news. The road plan was shelved owing to some reason. The boss summoned MM and ordered: “Go back to work.”
And my “BBC” is back. Hard work does pay, right?

17 comments:

  1. Good to hear that Ramesh. Glad that you got your BBC back.

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  2. You have revealed your secret of collecting dates & news! I also have a BBC(black berry cellphone!).

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  3. I'm so H_A_P_P_Y_ for you
    that you receive your BBC back :))
    Touching story about Sri
    also greetings for him :)))))

    (@^.^@)

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  4. You do introduce interesting people to us...thanks ! Say my hi to BBC next time you meet him.

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  5. hey that's wonderful Ramesh..your efforts did pay up :)

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  6. If only there were more people like him.....

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  7. Hard work & Good people always survive :)

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  8. itz alwaz glad to see such people back..!!! :D

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  9. Always good to have a known face back in place!! am happy for you.

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  10. Glad, so we will have more interesting stories then. These BBCs exist everywhere i guess, they bring us lot of untold truth :)

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  11. haha...the post had me in splits..
    nice to know that you got your BBC back

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  12. Generally we see people moving onto other jobs for more pay & better life but nurturing the date trees for 18 years is quite a long time :)

    And yeah, he must've got emotionally bonded to the trees for they were the mute witness to all his hardwork :)

    Interesting read :)

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  13. Glad to hear your friend is back.

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