To: List
Short story By
Jayaprakash [JP], 05-Jun-2013, 2:15am
[Disclaimer:
This story is purely a fictional creation, imagination of the author alone, any
resemblance to living, dead or future is purely co-incidental and author does
not take any responsibility for it]
Here goes the story….
I was looking at my iPhone and it looked so lifeless, I just
wished that the device had a life and it could just talk back to me, I was expecting
a call…
Finally my Timba ringtone rang, I felt like that was most heavenly
music I had ever heard {Fyi readers, I used to hate the sound of this ringtone, for knowing
how it becomes heavenly music on this instance, read on…}
I picked up the phone and there she was my superwoman on the
other end of the line, I eagerly waited for what she would say…..
[2 days back]
Superwoman is my dream girl, whom I had seen in one of the
conferences. First time, I could not muster courage to talk to her, second time it was just one of those we will
never meet again friendly talks, but I kept bumping into her in the most of the
conferences around the world at Paris, Rome, Dubai, Venice etc. and we started
talking more often. The more I got to know her, I found her to be the woman J {Readers you guessed
it right and you expected thisJ}.
Yes cupid struck me as well, now how do I propose her, did not have any guts to
tell her face to face {Readers, this is when lot of stupid ideas seem to occur
automatically right, it happened to me also}.
I decided to make a video of me proposing to her at all
historic locations that we had visited. I already had the videos of her on the
top of Eiffel tower, on the streets of Rome in front of Colosseum, on top of
burj khalifa, all I had to do was to edit those videos to include me. I hired a
film editor and made a nice video. Now I
had to choose a right time to show the video. After attending one of the
conferences, we were flying back from Madrid to Bangalore. I spoke to one of the
flight attendants and requested them to play the video and that is how I
proposed to my superwoman, 35000 feet above the earth in the sky close to
heaven and god J {Readers
one of these days, I will write more detailed fictional story of my proposal}
She got stumped, it was totally unexpected for her and mostly out of shock
asked me for two days to think about it.
[Back to present]
I picked up the phone and she said
“Yes” J
I was like did you say “Yes”, I
felt like getting up and dancing, I said give me a second and made one those
signature Michael Jackson’s Moonwalk moves and back to phone, I asked her shall I change my Facebook relationship
status J,
she said “Yes”. I asked her again, can I send mail invitation for a treat to all
our friends to celebrate…she said yes.
Mail invitation, hmmm this was the biggest mistake and the reason for
this story J
Started typing my mail invitation
for the treat…
To: Rajni, Vijay, Ajith, Surya,
Vikram, Hrithik, Anushka, Samantha, Trisha, Superwoman
Dear Friends, Inviting you all for
a treat at Hotel Citadel, 7pm tonight to celebrate superwoman accepting my proposal.
[Day of Treat]
All of our friends arrived by 7pm,
but my superwoman was not yet there, I kept calling her many times, but no
response, finally she picked up the call, I asked her when are you coming. All
the guests are already here. She said “I
am breaking up”, I was not sure I heard her right, I said what and why.....she
said if I was so important for you, I should have been on the top of the list.
I was confused, I said which list, I haven’t made any list…thousand lists went
through my mind, to do list, task list, not to do list, grocery list, laundry
list…but nothing was fitting…
She said check your To: List….I
said again which To: list, she said the Treat mail invitation To: List, I
checked my mail and yes her name was last in the list, I said but…I was
searching for explanation, I mean how do you explain this, can there be any
explanation… she said just if I was on top of your mind, my name should have been first in the To: List and disconnected the phone….
I was holding a dead phone and my
mind was trying to make sense of the situation…..and I suddenly laughed out
loud. I got dumped because of To: List…… ha ha ha ahaha ah lol rofl..
[End of Story]
