The Yaxis Live by Rajesh Kumar

At the outset I must tell you about two strong possibilities I have started believing in. First, Rehman must be a much sought-after ladies tailor.Second, his mobile number must be quite similar to mine. What else can possibly explain the numerous calls I have started getting from his clients of late.

Usually I manage to keep my cool and politely conclude the call as soon as I hear the ‘R’ word. But this morning’s call turned out to be different. I was climbing the stairs back towards the house after the cleaning the car in hot-sweaty weather. If you have such experience, you’d realize that the Indian male usually looks for warm cuppa tea that time, not surprise calls.

“Rehman, This is Mrs Raghavan speaking”

“No, err…”

“You spoiled my blouses. The entire set has gone waste”

I was not sure I deserved this barrage, which sounded much worse than it looks here. But Mrs Raghavan was in no mood to relent.

“But I..”

“Yes, you spoiled them all. Don’t do that again(almost screams). I am coming to your shop in thirty minutes. And keep your shop open, don’t back up and vanish, okay?”

I could mumble a meek sounding ‘okay’. Mrs Raghavan was kind enough to hang-up at this point. I felt totally overpowered and remain quite worried about future Rehman calls.

Sorry if I don’t take your call in next few weeks. I remain dreadfully frightened about the possibility of the next Rehman call!!

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