Thats when I suppose everyone refutes a change,I picked up a shift in work-place with daring courage. I was posted in India and had to face a number of peculiar languages in each of my transfers. I ended up in a place called warangal that was aptly adjusted to its local language Telugu and myself with not a sense of it, jumped into this unseen arena -the railway station- only to be confronted by a number of porters all speaking simultaneously in telugu. When I drew a blank, my collegue who had come to pick me gave me an instant coaching of a few words that I dutifully copied in my note pad.
The joke of the day was the next day, when in my guest house my subordinates came to welcome me. In their broken English they enquired when did I arrive . I wanted to test my telugu and I promptly replied 'repu' which to my horror happened to be tommorrow!
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