This was funny. I mean I looked an idiot at the end of this whole incident but it can happen to anyone.
I got a call (it was from “Anil” and I never looked at my phone while it was buzzing) while I was busy at work. I was about to complete the task and decided to call back later. So “Anil”. Ok here’s the catch. What happens when you see a missed call from someone who happens to share his/her name with 3 of your other friends? You randomly pick up one.
Here were the options – the three Anils I know.
Anil Bhari – Fellow batch mate at IOE
Anil Maharjan – Senior at college and co-worker at Nepasoft
Anil Somraj – Senior fellow MBA
The order here makes sense. Coz that’s how my brain prioritized when I saw “Anil” in my missed call. One more thing, I can hardly remember a phone conversation with any of those. I just have an entry “Anil” in my phone contacts.
So I called back.
Mistake no. 1. As soon as one of the above Anils, picked the phone (at this point I was still thinking it was Anil Bhari) I talked in the way you talk to a fren you haven’t talked in like for a year (The second and third Anils are my senior, so the talk wouldn’t be as informal).
Mistake no 2. I kept on pouring questions before I got any reply from the other side.
Now, after some moment of awkward silence from the other side I finally paused (Till this point my mind thought there is only one Anil in this world – Anil Bhari). The voice sounded different and I heard something like “Dude I can’t speak Nepali here”.
Snap. In a split of seconds my mind out of no where made up that it was Anil Maharjan (well when I later retrospected my thought process, I guess my mind made conclusion based on this fact – Anil should’ve been working on some companies here in US and during work time he should be speaking strict English).
So I shifted my tone from Anil (friend) to Anil (my college senior). I was still talking in Nepali. But the conversation still made no sense.
Finally, when I heard the confused laugh from the other end, my mind finally made the right guess in the last 5 minutes. It was Anil Somraj. When he said “He can’t speak Nepali here”, he really meant it. He is from India.
Funny.
Moral: Save the full names of your friends in your phone contact
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