Thursday, August 11, 2011

Glee In The Summer Sun

Somewhere in the busy streets of a city in New York:
A group of office colleagues in the room are busy wondering what the temperature is like outside. Its a summer's day. And they are wondering if they can step out to have some ice-cream.
They are dressed in summer wear. 
They pull out their iPhones and check the temperature outside.
A couple of them log-on to their computers and laptops to check the weather.
Some look at a cool iPad app that does a weather forecast every 10 minutes and predicts if there will be monsoon in Sahara that will cause the camels to do a salsa!
After sometime one of them decides that its too hot to go out.
Then another complains that that the dress she is wearing is too difficult to step out with.
A few minutes later a bunch of guys join the group.
The act repeats.
Smart phones, iPhones, iPads all come out and everybody is wondering if the temperature is 2 degrees up or down from yesterday.
Some of them appear to have solved the Global Warming problem of the earth.
Some others were lost if its Fahrenheit or Celsius- and accordingly if they had to complain along with the group or smile.
Eventually one of them steps out.
And then rushes back "guys! we can step out. its not bad"
"Oh is it? Great!"


Somewhere in middle of nowhere i mean...the dusty by-lanes of a sweltering city in India:
A group of young students are waiting for their school bus in scorching heat.
A business man is having a conversation with his wife in the AC confines of his car. Over the phone that is.
He steps out and continues his conversation; oblivious to the gradient of the temperature that he is about to experience. His nagging wife is not sure how to change the TV channel of his new 7-in-one home theatre set imported from Italy. 
He ends the argument. 
She begins a new one- she doesn't like the new washing machine. She prefers to warm her clothes under the open sun.
The businessman gets into his office. The cooler in his office is broken. A bunch of guys plan to fix it later in the day. The argument with this wife continues.
Two ladies are walking in the blistering heat towards their office campus.
One works for an ice-cream company. It doesnt matter.
A train is bursting with people in sweat. A bus is filled with people who are immersed in their local newspaper.
A truck driver is busy thinking if he can indulge in a Pepsi.
An insomniac has stepped out in a leather jacket. His bike contributing to the 'coolness' of the summer!
A bunch of people want to step for a cup of coffee.
One of them picks the local coffee shop.
They rush out. Within a minute they are sipping the best of coffee.

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