JEEBOOMBAA /BETTER HALF - WORK FROM HOME - 153

JEEBOOMBAA - BETTER HALF - NO PRIZES                FOR GUESSING THE WINNER

Covid 19 has been a one big story Worldwide There have been repeated appeals from the Central and State Governments ,  the Print and Visual Media  to stay indoors at home to fight this deadly menace which is now declared as a pandemic .
IT services is one of the operations which has been lucky enough to get their work done in the WORK FROM HOME MODE .

The hero of our story Arjun and Sushma are one such happy middle aged couple living in their Apartment Complex Home in Mambalam. Chennai who originally hailed  from non descript  Agasthiarpatty, a small hamlet in the Tirunelveli District of Tamilnadu. 

Sushma always  felt that Arjun was  having an easy time with his Work From Home  Schedule and there was always a scuffle between the two from time to time as is almost normal in any household .
 One such recent scuffle almost had all the ingredients to turn this verbal duel into a volatile confrontation with not only the harsh words but also many of the utensils in the kitchen trading places . Better counsel however prevailed upon  Arjun and he kept a comparatively lower profile until the situation got back to normal .

With approaching FESTIVAL SEASON AHEAD   , Sushma persuaded and  finally got Arjun to get the Brass Artefacts from the Attic  and get them scrubbed with Brasso to get back  their shiny and bright new look .
Arjun reluctantly got the brass items out of the attic . One item of particular interest was the ancestral Brass Lamp or KUTTU VILAKKU . Arjun was the sixth in line descendant in the family  line to hold the esteemed and precious  lamp in his hands .

The first scrub of the Brasso and PITAMBARI POWDER  and the Genie was out of the lamp and in all servitude remarked , 

 " MASTER I AM AT YOUR SERVICE , YOU HAVE GIVEN ME A NEW LIFE , YOU SEEM TO BE IN A SPOT OF BOTHER WHAT CAN I DO TO MAKE YOU HAPPY " .

Arjun was overjoyed . He saw a chance of getting rid of this chore  which Sushma had so unceremoniously dumped  on his shoulders  .

 " Genie all that you need to do is to get Sushma my wife off my back and stop her from getting me to do all the household chores  during my already busy  WORK FROM HOME SCHEDULE as this is truely turning out to be a big pain on  my back " . 
The Genie never imagined 
 that  he  would be given such an easy job in the first place . He went straight to Sushma and said , 

" Madam , I am prepared to do all the work that you have earmarked for your husband Arjun , I assure you that I will do a much better job than your husband ,  I will take his place , please release him of all his daily chores "

How could Sushma let this happen . Without the daily Wordly scuffle with her husband and other such  petty exchanges both verbal and otherwise  , her life would become absolutely  meaningless and one  big bore with nothing to talk about in the neighborhood ladies chat sessions , So she said

" OK GENIE , I WILL AGREE TO THAT ONLY ON ONE CONDITION . YOU SHOULD FIND THE ONE ITEM THAT I AM GOING TO  DROP IN FRONT OF YOUR EYES IN THE WATER TANK , IF YOU ARE ABLE TO GET IT BACK FOR ME , FINE , ARJUN NEED NOT DO ANY HOME RELATED WORK , OTHERWISE YOU GO BACK INTO THE LAMP FROM WHERE YOU CAME AND ARJUN HELPS ME WITH  THE WORK THAT I OCCASIONALLY ASK HIM TO DO  "
GENIE READILY AGREED TO THE CHALLENGE WHICH SEEMED FAR TOO EASY 

She took him to the water tank and opened her hand a dropped an ITEM  inside the tank .

After a while she asked the Genie to get the ITEM back .

The Genie inspite of all his sustained effort and physical strain could not locate the item dropped by Sushma and with a heavy heart remarked

" MADAM I ADMIT MY DEFEAT , I AM UNABLE TO FIND THE ITEM DROPPED BY YOU WHICH I MYSELF SAW YOU DO WITH MY OWN  EYES IN THE WATER TANK . YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND DO AS YOU WISH WITH YOUR HUSBAND ARJUN, I SHALL GO BACK IN TO THE BRASS LAMP FROM WHERE I CAME . BUT MADAM. PLEASE DO ME A FAVOUR AND TELL ME , WHAT WAS IT  THAT YOU DROPPED IN TO THE TANK , I HAVE NEVER FAILED TO DO A JOB ENTRUSTED TO ME  BY MY MASTERS BEFORE , MADAM PLEASE TELL ME "

Sushma Replied ,

" Now that you are going back into the lamp where you seem to have stayed happily all these years , I will tell you ,  the item I dropped inside the water tank was nothing but 

AN ASPRIN TABLET , 

which got dissolved in the water and hence you were unable to find ".

Arjun is still busy on the scrubbing job even as I write this piece . Poor Genie is back in the place , where he always belonged .

 POMBALAI NAA SUMMA VAA

NEVER UNDERESTIMATE A LADY

AURAT KO KABHI KUM NAA SAMAJHNAA

AADAVAALLU ANI YEMI ANUKONNAROO

BEN NAA SOO SUMJAUCHO 

H Ganesh