The things you learn
There is and was Dip. Dip is a guy I work with, his name is much longer…Dipenkar in full, Dip is the first part of his name and is much more appropriate just to call him Dip.
Poor Dip he tries hard, but damn he is arrogant, to the point of being annoying. He has some very strange, and illogical ideas on how to do things in life. One of his weirder traits is his grasp of english, not a very good grasp though. Sometimes Dip drives me to the office in the city, Dip’s actual job is a airport assistant and driver, he has one of the hard to get airport driving permits… this hard to get permit allows you to drive around on the apron…I have no idea what is the big deal, but here in India this is a very prestige thing to have. But Dip was driving me to the office the other day, he picks up small words I would say and repeat them all them time sometimes for the wrong reason, like when someone pulls out in front of us, he yells ‘idiot’ at them, or ‘fucker’, but the other day out of the blue a bicycle rider decides to stray into our lane, and he yells ‘you masturbate’ ! It was like what did you just call them, and he repeats it, well well…. yep this proves he can say words but has no idea of their true meaning, so when we were in the office I found a English Hindi translator and showed him what it meant. But Dip is a simple man, come from a simple background, he has a TV thats 18 years old that was given to him in the will of his now late father for instance. But some things still amaze me about how sheltered people can still be in this day and age.
Dip has done 2 things that make me go wow in recent days. The other day we were cleaning the jet, and the carpet had never been vacuumed in the last year (yes imagine what that looked like!) but I handed Dip the vacuum cleaner and he looked at me like I had 4 heads…. hmmm , so I say to him you have never used a vacuum cleaner before have you? No he hadnt, so here I am teaching a 34 year old man the intracities of using a modern vacuum cleaner….another strange sureal moment, and even more so by watching him be amazed at how it collects all the dirt. Then yesterday we are preparing to leave on a trip, and we had bought a electric kettle to boil the water to put in the hot water pot in the jet, and dip had never used a cordless let alone electric kettle. I was sitting there watching him open the kettle from its box, and he had 2 parts, the kettle and the base with its plug. He looks at the kettle part, picks up a extension lead and is trying to plug the extension lead into it….at first I thought he was joking around, but no he was serious he had no clue. I asked him what he was doing and he said power , I said how are you going to plug a power extension cord into it? He looked at me like I had 4 heads …again… so I point out the other bit he unpacked from the box, and he still looks at me like I have 4 heads…..I point out there is a box with a pretty picture of how its used… I put it together, show him where to put the water in it, and to close the lid and stand back. He does this and with the smile of a little kid is amazed that in just 2 minutes we have a pot of boiling hot water…. you should have seen how amazed he was at this modern contraption! Oh the simple things I thought and walked off as he filled the hot water pot from the plane.
But Dip is a frustrating guy to work with and around, I just have to constantly stop and remember where I am and what I am dealing with , then internally laugh at it all and move on.
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