Two Stories Worth Relating

Two Stories Worth Relating 

It is worth relating two true stories, here.

There were no cellphones but brick sized walkie talkies.

I packed the family to Ceylon and living alone in the hospital house in UK. 

I had a nasty night with lot of patients and wanted to catch up with my sleep. I came home around 1.30AM and there was a bit racket on the pantry door. I put the fridge, freezer and the dryer against the pantry door so that it won’t open. 

When I woke up 1PM, the next day there was no electricity to make a cup of tea. I gave a call to the telephone exchange to ask why there was no electricity. The lady there started laughing saying;

“You are hell of a guy! Slept through the worse cyclone in our living history. Open your door and see that your parapet wall is knocked down and the roof of the next door is blown off”.

Any way, they quickly restored my electricity and the pantry gadgets saved the roof over my head.

The second story was less dramatic. 

On a Saturday, afternoon in New Zealand, I woke up on the floor next to my bed. There again, no electricity to make a cuppa.

I asked why from the telephone exchange?

With a laugh;

“You are hell of a guy, you slept though an earth quake of the magnitude of 7.2 Richter scale”

“ Well I am on the floor but no injuries”.

When I looked at the “Buddha in a frame”, it was still tilting!

 

Of course, computers were my addiction, even those days.