TV Trolley

It was 2011. I wanted floor sitting in my room and for that I had to lessen the height of my TV Table; but couldn’t find time and a proper carpenter to full fill this job. After waiting for a while I communicated this very problem to a dear friend of mine whom I trusted (I still trust him) a lot. He said:

“Oh no problem brother I will do it by myself.”

“By yourself?..no I was thinking if you could send your carpenter to my place, I will get it fixed. I need someone who is really good and sharp for this job.”

“Oh ok I will do the honour, the carpenter is coming over on Sunday. I will send him to your place when he is done at mine.” My friend assured me.

Then the day was Sunday and by the end of the day there was no carpenter. Yes, though I was receiving messages from my friend that carpenter will be at my place in so and so minutes and hours. Didn’t work.

Days passed away showing me number of weeks and months and then a whole new year. The TV Table was still there with the same height. I reminded my friend with regular intervals but the only answer was “OK” with “OH!”.

After few months I shifted into my new room along with the furniture. I looked at the TV Table and couldn’t bare the height of it. I was in the middle of shifting process and that was the time when the dear friend showed up again. I asked him right away,

“When are we going to fix this TV thing? Where is the carpenter?”

“Oh you forget the carpenter I will lessen the height of your TV Table by myself.”

“No no I want it to be done properly. This is not for anyone to experiment or practice their skills.” I made my point very clear to my friend.

“Oh you don’t know my skills, you should ask Abbas.”

“Who is Abbas?” I was shocked.

“Oh my childhood friend, I told you.”

“Yeah I got it now.” I took a deep breath and then

“What Abbas got to do with this?”

“Oh he is very creative and so am I.” My friend was smiling.

“I don’t want my TV Table to be spoiled.”

“Oh it won’t.”

“Ok. When are you going to do the honour?” I finally asked my friend.

“Oh let me buy myself a toolkit.”

First it was carpenter and now toolkit. I didn’t know what to say but to make it more clear I asked him,

“When you will buy this toolkit?”

“Oh hopefully this weekend and then we will do your TV Table.”

“Are you really into woodwork and carpenter stuff? Or you will do it for the first time………?”

“Oh you don’t know how creative I am, you will see that I will also make another thing out of nothing.”

“That is not nothing that is a TV Table.”

“Oh one and the same thing.”

I waited for more than one week but my friend showed up without the toolkit and his so called skills. 1 more year passed away and my friend is still without the toolkit; about the skills, I really don’t know. One day when he showed up I asked him about the TV Table.

“Oh man the TV Table is fine, why you want to lessen the height?”

“Its not fine and I want to have a comfortable vision.” I replied.

“Oh man ok just wait.”

The next time when I asked him….

“Oh man I’m not getting the time but be patient I will do it.”

So more time passed away and the task was still hanging there. TV Table was still there with the painful height.

One day I woke up late and found someone was roaming around in the house under the supervision of my mother. When my mother saw me she asked me to show him the areas that needs a fix. Him was an Electrician.

Well, I got fix all the lights, switches, wires, lamps etc with him. When the electrician was about to leave he asked me,

“Sir geee is there anything else?”

I was about to say NO but something stopped me.

“Do you know any carpenter? A good one?” I never had that intention to ask the electrician that question. I felt that someone else is controlling me.

“Yes Sir!”

“Can you bring him right now?”

“Yes Sir!”

“BRING HIM”. I almost shouted.

The electrician brought the carpenter from my neighbourhood where he was working in a house under construction (I guess he knew him already or……). The carpenter came and asked what to do. I briefed him what to do and he took the TV Table to my terrace.

THA THA ZIG ZAG……….FINAL PASTING AND DONE.

Less that 5 minutes.

“700.”

“300.”

“500.”

“Done!”

Yes, the bargaining session went like that.

The carpenter placed my TV Table back in my room and cleaned all the mess. It was all done. I was satisfied.

Two days later my friend showed up. He did not notice the height of the TV Table until I turned on the TV.

“Oh you got it fixed. Congrats!”

“Shut up. I gave him that call with a smile.”

“Oh man nice.” With a (Sarcastic) smile.

“Yeah its very nice!” (Sarcasm).

“Oh man don’t you learn the lesson?”

“What Lesson?”

“Oh man…The lesson is:

Do your work by yourself!………HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”

The TV Table experience took more than two years!