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Monday, June 26, 2006

An Encounter ....

I had an encounter.. trust me ... Real Life Cops were also there , only difference was they were Traffic Policemen.........

After having a stomach full Lunch at Dhhaba Express & spending a Hot Chennai afternoon in an A.C. Mall (Spencer Plaza), I & Ashwin were returning back to college on Udhaar ka bike (courtesy: Divakar), the very urge to pay all the accumulated exxpenses we decided to check out an ATM & found the shortest route to reach the ATM, but believe me elderly people always say it right, dont take short-cuts in life & if literally taken they are right, 'cos that short-cut was full of traffic policemen, 'cos it was No-Entry. I dun know why the signboards like No-Entry are not visible before we are caught.

Now, we were asked to park the vehicle & talk to a senior policemen, the negotiation then begun... we both started in English, those guys hardly knew English & we hardly Tamil, so the negotiation was going nowhere, now we decided to resort to Tamil English. The conversation goes like this 'Sir, Studentsaaa.... , new to Chennai, only last week we came here, Sirrrr, we searching for ATM, one fellow told Take Left, we took left...(how obedient we are this shows)..
Sorry Sirrr, Next time no mistake.......

Inspite of all these statements he was not ready to settle the matter... only effect was price to pay was reduced from 100 to 50, then again we started....' Sir, No Money (I showed him my wallet, which was srsly moneyless) , we like your children Sirr, Studentsss Sir Plssssss....'
I believe by now we had done our job, he was quite convinced & freed us...

The Underlying concept was... Now that we have spent 5 Lakhs for learning Funda's from our MBA course... we would not end up spending even a rupee as a compensation for poor negotiation skills.....

1 Comments:

Blogger neermathalam said...

You were always good at bargaining..in hindi...
and kudos for proving mettle in tanglish..

6:07 AM  

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