Kinda old story. This happened at around the time when the James Bond movie "Quantum of Solace" was around the corner.

Me and my colleagues were talking about different stuffs and gossiping. My project's development team Manager Tina Balega happened to walk pass by. She is an old elderly lady, but very active and smart.

We all were talking about vivid subjects and then Tina mentioned that a new James Bond movie is all set to be released and we can all go for the movie. At that time, I hadn't heard about any James Bond movie in the making and hence had no clue on what the movie name is and related details. Also, I was curious on who was acting as James Bond in the movie. Daniel Craig only acted in one movie (Casino Royale) after taking over from Pierce Brosnan and I wasn't sure how the movie went and if they will cast him again.

But ... yes, there is a but for everything. This time, when I wanted to ask Tina about the actor who is doing the role of James Bond, I forgot the name of Daniel Craig. And before I could think or search google for his name, I had already committed to that question.

I asked, "Who is the hero in this movie?"

"Obviously, its James Bond itself". Tine replied.

I did try to cover up this by saying that I was asking about the actor who is playing that role, but this question and answered gave a hard imprint in my mind which of course, I will not be forgetting for some time from now.

I'm still wondering what was wrong here. Was it my question or was it her answer?

Yesterday I was walking my way home from Office after a long day. A few more minutes to my home, I heard the sound of footsteps behind.

I turned back and saw that my friend Amit was walking behind me. We both work in the same office although for different teams. We both are good friends too, incidentally.

He opened the conversation before I could say a Hi. He said, "It must have been a really bad day for me today".

I felt sorry for him on hearing that. We all work in production support for IT related applications used by clients and we may get a very bad day occasionally when something somewhere goes wrong and it takes a while to fix it.

I was curious on what went wrong with his application and hence I asked him "What happened". He replied, "I saw you quite a number of times today."

Yeah, that's true. I recollected that I saw him more than usual times that day. I saw him when he was going to office in the morning, then I saw him when I was having my lunch, he had to come to my team bay to discuss some ongoing issues, again we saw later in the evening when I went for a coffee break and finally I am seeing him again on the way back home. He was right, he did see me quite a number of times that day.

But wait, did you say that its because your day was bad?

I started looking for a tit for tat answer. But I soon realized that his statement was so good and I'm laughing. I did try to hide my smile on my face, but lost that battle too. I gave up. I smiled or rather I laughed.

It's innocent and sarcastic jokes like these that make your day. A good humor like this will remain in our mind for a long time and so does the guy who tells that. Probably in a similar situation, Ill reuse it too and gain the same advantage which Amit did.

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Today I saw Amit again after I was returning to my desk after a lunch. I said "Amit, how are you doing". He was looking tired and gave a slow and sluggish reply. "Not so good".

I felt curious, probably looking for a naughty and witty answer. I always admired his quick jokes. I asked him, "How can I cheer you up?".

He probably was not in a mood for a joke at that time. He said, "You make my salary a five figure sum and I'll be happy".

I replied, "Ok, I'll talk to Aman about this.". (Aman is my collegue.)

Now, he felt curious. He made a question mark with his eye brows. "And? ..", he asked.

I said, "and we will laugh at you".

Yessssssssssss, this time I scored. I could see him going through what I went though. I saw him searching for an answer and the smile inside him was not allowing him to. Wow, that expression on his face was funny.

Its moments like these which makes a boring day at office worthwhile. I sure did have some good time and will remember this for a good enough long time to come.

Yesterday I went for shopping in Walmart with my Manager and we were browsing through the vacuum cleaner racks, obviously for the cheapest one. Both of us had a cart of our own. While we were busy with vacuum cleaner lookup, he forgot to park his cart adequately enough to give room for anyone to pass by without hitting it.

Then a woman came that way and she was about to pass us when her cart hit my Manager's cart with a loud noise. No one would mind hitting his cart with another and we would just say a Sorry and continue, but this woman gave something to think and laugh with her response.

She said "Oh! Sorry, Women Driver".

I couldn't stop laughing for a while; that was an incredible comment with great presence of mind. More than that, the way she commented about herself and womanhood is worth admiring. It needs quite a lot of guts to laugh at oneself. I'm deeply impressed.

I was on my way from Mumbai to Bangalore on 2nd of June after an official training there. My ticket was booked in Kingfisher Airlines for this.

Generally people get excited when they hear about Kingfisher Airlines, the reason being you see a lot of beautiful young women dressed in short red dresses who of course are the flight attendants with that particular airlines. The hype about this was so much that I too was personally very much interested in boarding the flight.

I was right in time in reaching the airport and so was in a little hurry. I wanted to take the boarding pass quickly and proceed for check-in and so was hurrying though the process of baggage scanning. Then one employee of the airlines came near me and proceeded giving me the boarding pass. (The carry around boarding pass vending machines have made the queues shorter and the process faster, now a days).

I wasn't expecting any surprises with him as they can only ask queries about your first or last names and may be about the baggage which we are carrying. But this guy's question to me was "Sir, do you really think India is actually incredible?"

I was shocked, literally. It took a moment for me to understand why he posed that question. Well, it’s all because of my T-shirt; it had the wordings "Incredible India" written in big bold letters in that.

So it was a comment on my T-shirt. Ok, I take that. I smiled him back. That was a good remark and a nice exclamation. I liked the way he made his statement that he is actually taking good care of me noticing everything about be. But hey wait, he is not done yet. He asked me the same thing again.

Ok, so it was not a remark, it was a question itself. Now, I need to give an answer. What should I say? A Yes or a No? Either way, he would surely ask my justification for my answer since he will definitely want to prolong the conversation. And that’s exactly what I want to avoid at that eleventh hour.

I replied, "In a few ways, yes". He seemed to be a little surprised at my answer. His face clearly conveyed his disappointment for not being able to pose the readymade question which he already had for me. And in that quick few seconds when he was thinking about his possible next question, I asked him to excuse me and escaped an unneeded conversation.

I would not blame him; it was part of his job to do that talking. He must have been having specific instructions from the airline's authorities for interacting with the customers closely. And that’s what this particular Airline is famous for as well. But this guy just went short of questions at that time and to add to his trouble, caught a guy who is not interested to talk too. Poor him. But a good try from him to impress the customer. Good luck next time, buddy. Cheers!