When the Woodcutter's axe fable did not work....
This happened a week ago. It was a rainy day and with exams around the corner, rain did not stop me from going to the library. I had an umbrella with me when I entered the library. As soon as I entered, I was roaming around here and there taking printouts and finding a place to sit. I finally settled down and started youtube. ( Yeah, I came for studying....)
After about 2 hours (it was like 2 am), I realized my umbrella was missing. I went around searching for it in the places I was sitting initially before I settled down and I could not find it anywhere. Feeling rather annoyed for being so irresponsible, I was getting desperate to know it was safe somewhere. I went to the front desk guy who directed me to someone who was responsible for lost property on my level. I found that guy(Lynch) and he took me to the "lost property" room.
Then.....
Lynch: Is this your umbrella ? (He showed me a really new, nicely polished, black, sturdy umbrella. I was impressed but I was reminded of the Fable I had learnt when in kindergarden.)
Me: No....
Lynch: Is it this one ? (This time it was a ok-ok umbrella. Fairly new, black, long and sturdy.)
Me{(Soliloquy): "If I do accept this, it will be bad....".}: NO....
Lynch: It is this atleast ? ( This time, it was an old umbrella, barely a piece of cloth with some metal rods here and there to hold it against breeze( not winds).)
Me; No.....
That was it. ! There was no Goddess who came from the bookshelves in the library to give me all the three umbrellas :-(.
I have a feeling, I even looked around a bit to check if someone would just pop out and give all the three to me.... However, it did not happen and I was getting ready to leave cursing how I can never be careful.
At that moment........
Lynch: Hey, we should check out the shelf at the back. Hardly anyone uses it these days for lost property. But we should try.....
Me: (Eyes lit up).. Sure.......!
We walk to the room - a rather concealed place that I never knew had an entry point on the level we were in. We went in. He switched on the light.
And...... There it lay, silent, almost smirking at me... my 9 year old umbrella from India...... I was happy...
Quickly thanked him and walked back with almost an air of indomitable rudeness. {soliloquy:"I am sincere too......."}
