The CooK

The worst side effect of staying out of home is the junk food that one involuntarily gorges upon. And we (read it as the roomies) were no exceptions to it. In order to amend our habits and be healthy, we decided to go on a bai hunt spree. After a couple of misfortunes------------The first cook was too eager to make parathas, and we had parathas of everything that was there in the kitchen: dal paratha, mirch parataha, aloo paratha , gobi paratha, peas paratha..thank god we didn’t have rice paratha!!! Finally we got fed up of parathas and we chucked her.The second cook was another specimen who used to grace our kitchen thrice a week or so. This female was too eager to get married and she dumped us. After a lot of interviews and mental churning sessions, we got settled with our current cook. Little did we know at the time of hiring her, that she would be the topic of our daily night gossips? Initially we were quite happy with her for a number of reasons- she came cheap,she used to come regularly, used to do whatever we asked her to do and then we realized that it stopped right there. She actually did “whatever we asked her to do” nothing more and nothing less. A simple statement of “Plz make 6 rotis” had dangerous repercussions when we ended up having only rotis and no curry. Our house shifting made it worse because we lost our cleaning bai and we appointed her for the same job as well. Now we had to carefully instruct her about everything which was actually quite nerve racking as human brain is usually fogged when you are right out of bed. Hell broke loose when we discovered some spoons missing, tiffin broken, stale food lying in the fridge for a week and hardly eating anything other than potatoes and capsicum!! Anyways we put up with her for 5 months complaining, cursing, pulling our hair but never ever searching for a replacement. We started analyzing her every move, never have we spent our brain so much in office. Her monotonous high pitch voice and her zombie walks were unbearable. One of our conclusion was maybe she is a victim of autism. That explained her blank expressions and her immunity to our scathing remarks. Better late than never, we finally had a round table conference to bid her adieu. Now all pleased with our decision, we are waiting for the day to relay her the information. It’s a different matter that the day keeps on getting postponed but am sure it will come soon and we will breathe a sigh of relief. Signing OFF….and Eagerly waiting for the D-Day aka Mahayudh………….