Incidences

Well this is my first blog. Like most others I thought I'll start off my blog describing how I stumbled upon the idea of writing a blog and that I have been meaning to do this for a long time, but could not do it due to some or the other reason. But then I decided against it. In this post I am gonna narrate three very small, insignificant incidents. I don't know why, but these incidents have stuck in my mind and I can't seem to forget them. I don't know if these incidences have some deeper meaning that might have struck me or something like that. I seriously don't know. So I'll just be quoting these incidences blandly. Here they go:


Incident 1:
There is this guy in my building who takes care of all the trivial things like cleaning vehicles, ironing clothes,etc. He has a kid, around 12 years of age. He usually helps his father in his chores. 
Everyday, before going to office I shine my bike :-) . One day I forgot to bring the cloth I use to clean it. So I look around and I find this kid cleaning other vehicles. So I ask him if I could borrow his  cloth for a minute. He said that he'll clean the bike for me and started doing it without waiting for a reply. When he is done I give him Rs. 10. But he denied saying that he does it everyday. One more vehicle doesn't make any difference. I was surprised. He is quite young. He is poor. But he denied the money ! 
Ultimately I persuaded him to take the money saying that I am not giving this as alms. Its what he has earned. But  still his denial surprised me.


Incident 2:
I had parked my bike in basement of my office building. My office building is newly constructed. So it has a couple of leakages here and there. The place where I had parked my bike was right below one of these leakages. And it started to pour heavily that afternoon. In the evening,when I reached the basement, there was water everywhere around my bike.But surprisingly my bike was not drenched. I noticed that someone had moved my bike and because of this my bike was not all wet.I was happy to see this and I had to find out who did this.I looked around and found a security guard. I asked him if he had moved my bike. He said that he did it because it would have gotten all wet and covered with dirt. I thanked him and was reaching for my wallet. He understood my intentions and said that he is not allowed to take money from the employees.
I was again surprised. I mean this guy moved my bike even though it was not his duty. He should not have even bothered to look out for this. But he went out of his way and did it. And then he denied what I owed him !


Incident 3:
Every afternoon I go downstairs for a tea and a smoke. Usually some ladies will be sitting there selling tea, cigarettes, etc. That particular day, I approached a lady and asked her for tea. She got surprised and she dropped the cup of tea she was holding. It was then I noticed that the lady was actually a beggar and was having tea sitting under a tree. I felt real bad for what I had done. I apologized. She said that it was not my fault. I then bought her a cup of tea. She was not accepting the tea saying that it was not my fault that she dropped her cup. "Beta teri galti nahi thi !". I any how gave her the cup of tea and left without having a smoke.