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,
the one towed the other to the lab's delivery counter to collect the report, and it being a small township, the technician knew them both, and so handed the pregnancy-positive report to the Prema whose head bobbed up at the window.
The two went their own ways from here and heaven knows who thought what, but in a short while the lab tech realized that he had been lost in his thoughts for he had given the report to the wrong person. If there was any person who had reason to panic on knowing of the report, surely no one would have thought of the lab tech, but indeed he did, for his job and thus his children's security were now at stake in having wrongly predicted the coming to earth of a little soul.
The lab tech ran to my friend's colleague's house and found him- the colleague- there. Howsoever awkwardly, he apologized for the snafus and told him that he had given his wife's positive report to the other Prema. Saying so he asked him to make amends to the situation as soon as possible. These two scurried to my friend's place and cleared the confusion. There was some jovial back slapping amongst the three- my friend, his colleague and the lab tech- with the last one weathering some more on his back.
I am told that in a wedlock, this is perhaps the only occasion a missed pregnancy was celebrated.
At the time of this writing, the first borns of both these gentleman are married happily, and no one is as yet expecting- as far as their lab techs can tell!
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,
the one towed the other to the lab's delivery counter to collect the report, and it being a small township, the technician knew them both, and so handed the pregnancy-positive report to the Prema whose head bobbed up at the window.
The two went their own ways from here and heaven knows who thought what, but in a short while the lab tech realized that he had been lost in his thoughts for he had given the report to the wrong person. If there was any person who had reason to panic on knowing of the report, surely no one would have thought of the lab tech, but indeed he did, for his job and thus his children's security were now at stake in having wrongly predicted the coming to earth of a little soul.
The lab tech ran to my friend's colleague's house and found him- the colleague- there. Howsoever awkwardly, he apologized for the snafus and told him that he had given his wife's positive report to the other Prema. Saying so he asked him to make amends to the situation as soon as possible. These two scurried to my friend's place and cleared the confusion. There was some jovial back slapping amongst the three- my friend, his colleague and the lab tech- with the last one weathering some more on his back.
I am told that in a wedlock, this is perhaps the only occasion a missed pregnancy was celebrated.
At the time of this writing, the first borns of both these gentleman are married happily, and no one is as yet expecting- as far as their lab techs can tell!
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