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How was your weekend!!

End of another weekend….I dread going back to office on Mondays. I especially hate the first few hours of the week in office.

No it is not the usual Monday morning blues. What I dread is the question that has become all too common among today’s working class.

'So how was the weekend? What did you do?'

Here’s one that is worse: - 'How was this weekend?' (Note the accent on the article).

Actually come to think of it, it can get even worse….

'God, what a weekend!! How was yours?'

Or someone scoring brownie points – ‘I may have worked all weekend but I am feeling much better having completed all the reports. Is yours done?’

Now, I do not know about you, but if there is something I am looking forward to doing on a weekend then it is nothing.

Yes, that exactly is my weekend plan, every weekend of the month and year. Do nothing.

While that may not make a very exciting Monday morning conversation, it does make me feel very good.

And I am good at doing nothing. Remember the adage….if you like what you do…it will be like doing nothing…or something like that!!!

However I do not like the condescending or patronising look that inevitably follows the revelation of my weekend activity, rather the lack of it. And if the other person does not know me well, he will most certainly walk up to me the coming Friday saying, “Hey you know what….I have a great idea of how you can spend this weekend.”

Go away!!

I have tried lying (not one of my natural skills), sarcasm (natural skill) and show of plain disgust and lace my answers with these expressions at random to make sure that there are no repeat offenders. Unfortunately you keep running into new people and many of the old people keep forgetting.

I even started giving advance warnings on Twitter and Facebook – Sunday evening updates like….’a great weekend…did nothing’. But even that doesn’t work. Those that do read it actually come back asking….’No tell me…what really made the weekend great?’

Well, it is getting late now…time to shut down/shut eye and tomorrow morning in office….'Shut up!'

Comments

  1. UnknownMarch 22, 2010 at 1:31 AM

    i loved the fact that atleast you did complete your hometask....lekhata durdanto....theker paapi bole nijer saathe identify kore ato bhalo laglo....chaliye jao guru....

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  2. New guyMarch 22, 2010 at 8:30 PM

    thank you....hometask korlaam...but in true thek style...well after deadline !!

    thanks for commenting

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