The Specialist

(Not many years ago...)

"This is not a lodging and boarding centre, please treat this like your home"

These were frequently uttered sentences from my Mom who thought that she hadn't seen much of ME in the past few weeks.

"Mom , this is the last trip all of us are going to be together!!"

"Yes, I know. But LAST week was your LAST valentine's day together.And then there was LAST christmas together.Then the LAST New Years eve together. You even had a LAST Republic Day together"

She had a valid point.It never ever seemed like all of us had been spending a lot of time together.We were always racing against it; there were 10 more things we wanted to do and
100 more things we wanted to talk about and another 10 places we wanted to party.Half of us were leaving Pune to pursue further studies.

"I have to GO"

"No"

"Mom ,We have a farewell planned for these guys".This did the trick.

Though all of us would be eagar to co-ordinate and help out in such activities which supposedly was a FAREWELL (read as one more reason to spend time together & have a grand party) ; there was one person who was a specialist in FAREWELL's. We call her 'CAPTAIN'

Right from how to catch the guy/gal when she least expects a party , make a special meal , give him a traditional Indian welcome with a garland , giving him a special collage which will have his favourite football club/actor/actress and not to forget the special chart paper plane which had the name of the airline by which the person was about to fly(It had childhood snaps of the friend which were smuggled a day or two before the person's farewell was planned).The MISSION would end only after she bid goodbye to the friend on Mumbai's Airport.

Ironically its her farewell time and we don't have the advantage all the earlier guys had.

We didn't have a specialist.We did try a stunt though.Couldn't match her capabilities.

Adios Captain !!