That was another hectic day in office. I Was busy with some drawing and it’s layout and was exhausted towards afternoon. Badly wanted a break but the sense of completing the task was all over me, not letting my eyes off from the drawing. Suddenly my cell vibrated. Though was not in a mood to talk to anyone not important, after glancing the number for a second picked up the call and said hello..
The caller: hello! Could I speak to Mr. X?
Mr. X: (the voice was pretty good) yeah speaking.
The caller: am calling from Bank of dream and we are having some good offer for our valued customers.
Mr. X: (elated by being valued high though didn’t know how much high is his value) oh! Okay…
The caller: Sir ! we are offering loans at a very low interest. Would u like to avail this opportunity?
Mr. X: how much low? (The sweet voice of the caller was giving him a high to ignore the low interest part)
The caller: @ mere 2 %.
Mr. X: (in a state of suspicion surprise & suspense) well.. How come I haven’t heard of this in spite of a regular reader of business news?
The caller: No sir this is our special offer for special customer like you. So it has not been in media.
Mr. X: (smelling something fishy) how come only taking a small loan from bank of dreams that too for a low end entry level car makes me special?? By the way am not interested. Neither have I had any plans to invest now.
The caller: but sir don’t you think that this much of low interest is worthy to think of investments.
Mr. X: and up to what limit u r offering this loan?
The caller: up to 5 million sir ! and sir are you married?
Mr. X: yeah I am.
The caller: even we have a fabulous offer for married persons too.
Mr. X: (the doubt of being fooled was getting thick) what offer?
The caller: Sir if you are married to one person then u can avail this 2% interest offer and if you are married to two persons then you have to pay only 1%.
Mr. X: (unable to judge and understand what to do whether to laugh or whether to scold) what!!
I said na am not interested.. By the way tell me who are you and laughed..
The caller: (with laugh) why don’t u guess..
PS: Later I had asked her if they had any plan for the person married to 3 people hoping that the loan would be interest free. But only she laughed in the answer.
Well… in the whole conversation once again I acted as a nerd and again realised that how poor am in handling intelligent conversations. But it was good break to remember. J
