Last Sunday I was waiting for my train on the over-bridge at Ernakulam Jn railway station. As expected my train was late by half an hour. Just then I saw my colleague Vinod Sreedharan coming out from a train as his train had a halt at this station for 15 minutes. Vinod did not see me. He got down the train and was looking closely at the passengers in the platform.
Just then he happened to see a boy (for communication sake he will henceforth be known as Babu) selling uzhunnu vadas. He called up Babu and asked for the price.
Though I could not hear their conversation, this is what I could infer by seeing their actions and expressions.
Vinod: “How much for one plate”
Babu: “Rs.15/- sir”
Vinod: “Oh and how many vada’s in one plate?”
Babu: “You will get 2”
Vinod: “What if I want just one?”
Babu: “I will not sell it to you”.
Vinod: “Ok… In that case please give me a plate of vadas”
The boy gave him 2 vadas. Vinod took the vadas and looked at it. He found one smaller than the other.
Vinod: “Why is that??”
Babu: “What sir??”
Vinod: “Why is this one smaller than the other?”
Babu takes one vada back from Vinod compared it with the rest and gave him 2 of equal size and hurried away.
Vinod looked at both the vadas again, made sure that they are of the same size and started eating it.
But his train did not start even after 15 min. Just then he saw Babu coming back after selling vadas at other compartments. As he came close Vinod smiled and called him. But Babu was smart. He quickly changed his direction and got into another halted train to sell the remaining vadas!
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