This is a funny example of "what you sow is what you reap!".
To proclaim my blatant love for cars, I have purchased 4 toy cars and have kept them in my office cubicle for everyone to admire. Earlier I had kept them on top of a cabinet so that everyone who passed by my cube could see them. One fine day, I saw that one of them was missing, only to find out three days later that it was hidden by a friend of mine who tried to play a prank on me.
However, he isn't aware that over the three days, I did a lot of frantic searching for the car, before I declared that it was "stolen". Also just to take care of the rest of my cars, I moved them from their original location. Doing all this attracted a lot of attention of my regular visitors and a few of my colleagues.
Finally, now that I have my car back, every now and then whenever an old visitor comes back, the conversation naturally drifts towards my stolen car, and then I have to explain how my friend had hid it as a practical joke and how he gave it back to me. And the result is, ahem, everyone wants to know who he is :) !!!
I never imagined I would give so much negative publicity to someone without intending to do so. But this is just another example of how negative gets highlighted in our society whereas the good things go unnoticed.
Did you ask him where he had hid it? I must get some credit for convincing the thief to replace it much earlier that he had designed :)
ReplyDeletehey maan! I didnt know that you were partners in crime! I always thought that he was the only one who master minded the whole plan :) !! btw, I need to ask him where he hid it!
ReplyDeletehahaha ...I remember this incident because I was one of the witness :)
ReplyDeleteLong long ago :) !! I am sure the perpetrator has already forgotten.
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