Thursday, June 17, 2010

Juicer

Months after its arrival we finally opened my sister's gift, a Jack Lalanne juicer. One of  our friend gave a good review about it and the juicer proved it to be true. We tried apple juice and it came out wonderful. Very minimal wastage for a juicer and the quality of the juice was good as well. On top of it we didn't spend a penny on it. That's comforting. Thanks to my sis for the birthday gift. Hope she remembers my wedding anniversary too. :-)

Monday, June 7, 2010

Airport Pickup

Have you ever heard of people playing pranks on themselves. Well it was our turn y'day. Srini & Shyamini, our buddies, came over for dinner to our place y'day. These guys had to pick up their cousin from airport at 9.55pm.  After the dinner, Srini developed a severe headache. (Yeah! I know what you are thinking. I just hope it wasn't the food.). Jolly & Srini, as usual did their online research and found out that the flight touch down is delayed by 66 mins. What an opportunity to play Wii. Just when we were in the middle of the bowling. We got a call from Chinni (Srini's cousin) precisely at 9.50 saying that the flight landed. What happened to the delay indicated in flight stats? We didn't have time to ponder over it anyway. Our Jolly fellow offered to drive and we quickly started our drive to SFO. This was bulb no:1. There is more to come.

On the way to the airport, we cleverly planned to trick Chinni. The plan goes likes this: Srini calls Chinni and informs he cannot make it to the airport and so Jolly will pick him up. Jolly will call and confirm the same with Chinni. We will drop Srini & Shyamini few yards before the pick up point and they will walk to Chinni. I and Jolly will drive to the point and pick up Chinni. Wow! what a plan. Chinni will be surprised to see all four of us.
Voila! We reached SFO airport and informed Chinni that we are there in the Alaskan arrival point. He confirmed that he is right there. We searched and searched, Chinni was nowhere in sight. We called him to check again. He said he was at terminal C. There was no terminal C in SFO.  Now, came  bulb no.2. We just realized that we are in the wrong airport. We called up and faced the moment of truth that he was indeed waiting in SJC airport. After an hour of drive, we finally reached the airport and picked up Chinni. Poor Chinni took it all with cheer.