Chick Meet

It was just one of those days...
I spent the whole day running helter- skelter, trying to be on time for a barrage of meetings...
Getting wet in the rain... being refused by cab drivers for upteenth number of times...
Wading in stubborn, cold, murky water... which refused to go down our beloved city's superior drainage system...!!! (YUCKKK! dont even want to think about what the water contained... SHUDDERRRRRR!!!) Thank god... for my CROCS!!!
And ofcource, ended up being late for the meetings due to downpour which as usual threw the city's traffic system out of kelter...
But what made me go through the whole gamut of the day's activity was, my friend Pragya's hurricane visit to the city...

I received an SMS early in the morning saying "Lets meet at Flurys, 6:30pm"... I was elated...
However as the day wore on.. I became a bit skeptical... the sky was overcast... it rained quite hard... the drizzle didnt let up...
But when I called to ask.. I was strongly reassured that we were meeting...
I just about wrapped up work and ran out of office... knowing that it wiuld be an uphill task getting a cab in this weather...
Strangely... I got a cab from inside the building... and made it quite quickly to Flurys on Park St.

Pragya was aready there with Kasturi... I joined in...
I had skipped lunch and was quite hungry... so was Kasturi... Pragy had had a heavy lunch... so she was not keen on food...

What followed was a hilarious episode of us ordering food...
The whole day I had been wanting to have freshly made pancakes with icecream and maple syrup.... waiter who came to serve us, took kasturi's order for toast and omlette... but there was no pancakes... (Sighhhhhhh!!)
I ordered for a chicken mushroom quiche after a lot of consideration... that too was not available...
totally fed up... I asked for the Manager... who happened to be an ex- colleague of mine...
On learning about my predicament... he asked for something... that too was unavaiable...!!! (LOL)
At last we unanimously decided on chicken wings in barbeque sauce...
All the while... my friends were laughing!!!
The food arrived... (pretty fast... by Flurys standard...)
We happily dug in... while Pragy sagely enjoyed her cuppa...
The current went off.... and we decided that it was the best time to take a few photographs...
Tomali joined us just then... perfect timing... we said...
The waiter, Abhishek very sweetly took our photos....
We had already finished our food by then...
Good in a way as Tomali was on a diet... (Tomali's diet- 'TD', Kasturi named it...)
She ordered for tea and cookies...
We ate... chatted... bitched...talked a lot of nonsense.... discussed the 'Swine -flu'... & laughed a rather too loudly...(who cares..)
We were a happy bunch of like-minded Gals....
Tomali's "Taxi Khabo..." had us into fits of laughter as we left Flury's to go back home...
A total stress buster...!!!
I believe Chick Meets like these are very refershing... and we should do it more often...!!
What says?