26 February 2013

Just Missed - A Pregnancy

A dear friend of long standing presently works for a corporate- the same one he joined as a graduate engineer many a summer  back. At one time this entity was the place to work in, and the employees' residential facility was the address to live in India. A fellow graduate engineer joined the company at about the same time as my friend did and as fate would have it they soon got married to girls with the same name. Lets give them both another name for the sake of anonymity; say, Prema.

The two families got close because of proximity and the wives, both Premas, would visit most places in the township together, so much so that they would sometimes need medical attention for minor issues at the same time.

On one such visit, each Prema having her own agenda, one lady's sample tested positive for pregnancy, while the other one was not tested. To confound the matters,