Eye-kohl and the waiter

There can not be examples enough to instance that at job, how one is required to be spontaneous, have a sharp presence of mind, be clear about what he perceives and putting it across in simpler words. Though these sound like to be very necessitated traits for anyone working on this planet, an example would throw more light on it.

I have this one funny incident to narrate,self-encountered one, in the majestic state of Goa which thoroughly would justify the capacities of a restaurant waiter in all aspects I aforementioned. 

A gang of gals, 5 in number was on a trip to the state of Goa. And getting ready in morning was ideally an affair of few hours only.One of them being myself is an easy bundle of nonsense and an invitation to laughs. A very dear friend of mine had one of the many varieties of eye kohl which is used to decorate eyes. Putting it like a line over the eye lid,usually called eyeliner, gives a good look. So one morning I told her to put that on my eyes too. And as she did her job, to fine tune and balance the amount of liner over both the eyes, it grew thicker in appearance and my eyes looked charcoal-ed  rather than beautiful.

As we were in hurry, we got down and started on for the day in our taxi. Seated in taxi, a glance in the hand mirror did not satisfy me with my friend's work on my eyes and I told her that I want to take it off. We were like lets do it at the breakfast restaurant.

Restaurant menu

they looked beauties ...

As we landed to feed our tummies, I rushed to the ladies room to wash off. But the basin there had no mirror. I came back to the seated gang and asked the waiter to which rest of the ladies were placing an order "I could not find any mirror over the basin. Is there any other around. I want to look into the mirror."

Reading my face, and my so baffled expression, and the amount of eye liner over the eyes, and my such strong urge to take it off, and my expression that stayed “Oh! I look horrible”, he jumped to say "Haan Madam, Thoda zada to ho gaya hai [Yes Mam, It is little more ]”

I was like ... Actually Dot Dot Dot.

He looked simple, sober and innocent.I tried ignoring as I did not hear to save myself from the embarrassment and fun the gals would have poked on me, behaving like no one heard.

But all of us had heard it. And we together exploded into laughter, And one of us was offended a bit more than anyone to say " We can get him thrown off his job. It is not done" And we could see behind how his manager was dealing with him.

And the phrase “"Haan Madam, Thoda zada to ho gaya hai [Yes Mam, It is little more ]”, we carried it all through our trip, exclaiming it every next moment and laughed like blazes.

Had the lady on his other side been in abundance of attitude, the impact surely could cost him a hell heavier, I suppose. But  as I said, he was spontaneous, and read that expression on my face so sharply and was gutsy to put it in such words. I was rather impressed at his honesty of expression, at his innocence and naiveness of not knowing  much about the world and its how-to-dos.

After taking off some of that kohl ..