The Cakes :-
Come Again keep a everytime a smile “
By D vinod Kumar
It was the month of December ,year 2006 the day
was a Sunday , and it was almost nearing the year chilly wind blew through out
the day , as I looked far from the top of the fifth floor through the window
was looking down watching the vehicles and the busy traffic , with a cup of my
favourite brand of coffee in hand , thinking to go home or not as it was just
five o clock , or to just give a call to
a customer and discuss with regarding portfolio management,as the state of
market as it was today whether to invest or cover the loss , as every investor
is important to us not interms of maintain a perfect relationship with the
customer , but also making his investment grow slow and steadily , as I came
towards my table and was just going to sit on the chair , all of a sudden the
phone rings
Hello sir ,
I said yes , and the voice said my name is
xyz , I would like to meet you , and have some ideas regarding investments
on stocks , to which I duely said , surely Mr xyz come to the office anytime I would
be eagerly ready to help you , as its my onus and responsibility to guide you
to make a perfect investments , to which he said in a solemly soft voice bhaiya
, I cannot come Mom will not allow me , come to our house I have the trading
terminal in my house , to which I again pondered for a minute I thought for sometime
may be, a prank call somebody making a fool of me I said sorry xyd I cannot
come tommorw I have a lots of appointment for tomorrow ,if you can come I will
be glad to help you , then I again thought and asked him xyz who gave you my referral
, he said a friend of mine who was working in the same company I was working
had refered my name to him , after hearing the name of the friend , I wondered
when was also a good technical and sound investor planner why the hell did he
refered me
I said okay
I will come within a week or two , so keeping I kept the phone , I asked my
friend the other day did you refer my name to any xyz and he said yes , because
you a good advisor on stocks with clinical precison ideas and online expert on
graphs so I refered your name , I said okay thanks dear , I will definetly meet
him .
As it was a cool Saturday morning
, with no trading , no investment gyan to anybody , siting along side the
coffee shop and discussing about the cricket match with my friend , I asked my
friend why waste the Saturday , why not meet Mr XYZ , so I made a call to MR
XYZ , I said hello if you are free for some minutes then I could come , to
which MR XYZ said I am bit busy , but if you could come in the evening it could
be good , I said okay with a smile and took the address of him , and asked my
friend to accompany me to the clients home ,with a smile in a face of mine oh
if every thing goes out well one more client into my kitty , and boss would be
happy .
As the appointed time was just
approaching , I took all the required papers and documents and kept them in a
safe place inside the bag , put down the best dress ever and with the best perfume
as first impression is the last impression , rather than becoming a LIFO
Last in
first out , and me along with my friend went set to meet the client , as my
friend was a localite and he had total information about the city , he rode the
bike and atlast we reached the client , the lush garden , the big bunglow and
the cars all made a beautiful impact upon the mind , as we were about to enter
the gate , I remembered something I told my friend buddy the client had said
before we enter we need to ring him and then go , so saying I rang up the phone
and the client said yes sir please come fifteen minutes Iate I will be reaching
home within fifteen minutes , I said okay with a smile , I told my lets have a
coffee at the tea shop and wait till mr xyz comes to home , and we waited , as
we waited I saw a bakery shop near the tea stall , and was surprised to a
beautifully packed cake and on which was written “ COME AGAIN KEEP A SMILE EVERYTIME ” before I could ask a customer came and took
away the cake , and left me thinking what was the meaning of it , and before I could
ask the phone rang and saw it was xyz ‘ s number and picked the call to which
mr xyz said , sir please come I am at home , finally wait was over , we entered
xyz s home and was really surprised to see the house beautifully decorated and
but could not find xyx except to a arrow mark on the wall saying this side ,
and we went that side , as we approached the room , smell comeing out of the
room of detol and saline bottle lying here and there , to which I said have
come to an hospital , to which he said stop joking , and both smileing as we
entered the room , for a moment my eyes was left wide open , there was a
hospital bed surrounded by moniters on all sided with a saline stand , and
there lay my client with a brilliant smile as ever , saying in a low voice ,
here is my computer and the trading link can you just set the online charts for
me , and we sat hours together analyzing stocks , I was quiet surprised by his
investment ideas , and the canny smile he gave when it came some brilliant questions
on some stocks , it was a evening which will be remembered for ever , as his
mother said you really brought a smile into the face of my child who has broken
his spine while jusmping from the dash board and now fully bedridden
and with a
very young age losing time as day passes bye , as we were above to leave , Mr
xyz said , bhaiya it was great talking to you , you really brought a smile in
my face , to which I said smile and you go miles in life , so saying we came
back to our office with a packet which mr xyz had given us , and told me to open
only when I am alone , and not infront of him , to which we obliged , and finally
after an hour we reached our office I kept the parcel inside the draw of the
table , I was quiet restless to open the packet , but I said wait let me reach
home then I will see whats inside the packet , but my hands wont allow it , and
finally opened the packet , and as looked Inside the packet i was speechless ,
wordless and tears came out , it was the same cake which I saw at the bakers
shop on which was written “ come again keep a smile everytime “