Nomad, the Scribbler

However sweet your ring tone is, however lovely you think it is, you will have a moment of quiet introspection when your mobile start ringing while you are having a nice sleep. Now I certainly do. "hey. you there?? " "Yea..ah "    I replied, not having fully recovered from sleep. What were you doing? I have been trying your number for a while. sleeping, I said sheepishly What? it is just 8 man!!! Oh.. Pause.. I checked my watch, it was just 8. "I fell asleep." "OK. I will be there in ten fifteen minutes.. Don't go anywhere." "OK.. " I put the phone down and tried to sleep. Sleeping further was pointless. He would be here any moment to wake me up again. I got up, put on my slippers and went outside. It had rained while I slept. Air was still cool. Felt a gush of refreshing cold breeze on my face and felt a chill running through my spine. But it wasn't just the cold breeze. Origin was somewhere els

  Ten kms  ten kilos and ten K - the 3 K's "Ten kilometer  is not such a big deal, not hard at all. People run that all the time." "May be not for marathon runners. For me it is.  I am not an athlete." "You used to say you were a cricketer once. "  "Did I ?"  "You know what your problem is? You give up quite easily and you are dead lazy."  "Certainly not.  This is a boring bet to begin with." "Not my problem anymore, bro." This conversation happened a month after the bet was made. So a month has gone by after this conversation (or was it two?).   I don’t quite remember how I got into this one. I was slowly walked into this trap, I assume. Silly me. And even sillier me !! I got myself into not one, but two such bets. Inherent human nature ??? Probably. People who gamble when they lose a bet this could, more or less, be the thought that crosses their mind.     “I will try my luc