🍴Tiffin tales

From Biswajit Basu:

(Narrated on October 11, 2022)

 *AN EMBARRASSING FAUX PAS*

I left for the office as usual armed with my tiffin.  On reaching the office, the durwan told me it was a holiday (an important one).  I realised I'd cut a sorry figure and be the brunt of all jokes if I went home.  So, I went to Lodhi Gardens and lay down on a  bench.  At lunch I shared my tiffin with some stray dogs, played football with some boys in the afternoon and went home as usual  in the evening.

To cut a long story short, I got caught.  Those were before the days of mobilephones and my wife (hands on hips) asked me where I was the whole day.  "In the office", I glibly lied.  And there was hell to pay.

Mr Thakur, my boss, had called home to talk to me and Swati told him I was in the office!

She has continued to refuse to believe that I had shared my tiffin with some dogs and still asks me some 30 years later where I was the whole day! I suppose I have not been convincing enough!