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Two Cups and a Spoon



We have three colleges functional from our campus here on the hill in a god forsaken village called Lavale. With almost simultaneous breaks [obviously you won't keep shifts for lunch, lunch has to happen at lunch time, ain't it?], it puts immense pressure on the mess staff. Somebody needs to teach those 'kids' from the other college that it is good to follow the queue as then everyone gets warm food and chatting and flirting can be left for later, at the dining table. It becomes even more difficult to move on when you have scores of girls in front of you. Being the overtly chivalrous person that I tend to be, I let the things go in a manner they do. Girls at times seriously don't deserve this chivalry these days. A pretty young thing tried to make her way in front of me while I was already getting impatient with the slow moving queue. I turned back with a frosty nosed stare. She made that apologetic face and pointed at the counter, ' I just need that!'. I looked back to the place which was flooded with a lot of plastic cups for the chaach and a few spoons here and there too. I picked up a cup and gave her. 

She refused and said, 'I already have two cups, can you give me a spoon?'

I did and thought that it wasn't only queue etiquette that they need to be taught.

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  1. hahahahaha... silly girl!!

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  2. good job. lol. and i loved that picture of the glass and the spoon smiling hehehe. u missed out the teeth.

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  3. @ nitu - he he..yea well...missed the grinning teeth. :)

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