"Sir, what do we do when the tubelights fall on our head?"
"You can go to the emergency room for treatment. You will get free treatment, if you have your family card" I said.
"But can that not be prevented?"
"The contractor and the architect do not seem willing to do anything about it" I said, "and the engineers of the civic body do not answer any letters we send them. So there is nothing that can be done to ensure that tubelights do not fall on your heads. You could always stand or sit away from the spots directly under the tubelights to protect yourselves."
"Even the tiles fall off the walls. What do we do about them?"
"Keep safe distance" said another Professor, "like they print on the rear bumper of state transport buses and trucks."
"Huh?"
"That means do not stand near the walls."
"That is no solution."
"It seems the contactor is fitting steel plates over the tiles so that they do not come off."
"You can thank your stars the contractor fitted vitrified tiles instead of marble, as we had been promised before. Imagine what would have happened if a marble slab had fallen on your head instead of a 2x2 vitrified tile."
"Yes, we are indeed lucky. The architect must have been a blessing in disguise."
"You could always wear protective headgear" said an Associate Professor "like this one." He showed us a photograph, which I show here with thanks to that Associate Professor.
आयुष्यात अनेक प्रकारची माणसे भेटली आणि अनेक प्रकारचे प्रसंग घडले. काही चांगले, काही वाईट. त्यांतल्या लक्षात रहातील अशा व्यक्ती आणि घटना येथे मांडल्या आहेत. समोर येणा~या अडचणींतून मार्ग काढतांना बरंच काही शिकायला मिळालं. तेही लिहिलं आहे. त्यांतून माझा स्वतःचा मोठेपणा दाखविण्याचा हेतू बिलकूल नाही. इंटरनेटवर असलेली माहिती जगाच्या पाठीवर असणा~या कोणालाही घेता येते म्हणून हा सगळा प्रपंच. त्यांतले बरे वाटेल ते घ्या. जर त्यातून कोणाचा फायदा झाला तर हा सगळा खटाटोप सार्थकी लागला असे मला वाटेल.