SORRY!!!

It is not always necessary to say ‘SORRY’

As children, we are always taught that the two magical words are ‘SORRY’ and ‘THANKS’.

I have a real life experience to prove this just wrong.

I was visiting Delhi to attend the wedding of my second cousin. It was a day visit and planned to come back on the same evening after enjoying a cocktail dinner. A morning 06:00Hrs GoAir flight took me to Delhi reaching at 08:00Hrs. My cousin had sent a car to pick me up from the airport. As there were lots of guests he had made arrangements for us to stay in different houses.

I was accommodated in the house of a XYZ family in Pitampura, a very sweet young couple and their equally sweet one year old baby. I reached their home around 09:30Hrs. Mr. XYZ was waiting for me, though normally he left house by 09:00Hrs as he was working with a multinational company in Gurgoan.  After quick introductions and breakfast, he left for work. I continued watching something on TV since I had nothing to do for the next 2-3 hours. In spite of having more than 100 channels, TV is the most effective sedative and I fell asleep in a few minutes.

I must have slept for a fairly long period thanks to the 06:00Hrs flight and my darn alarm of 03:00Hrs. When I woke up, I found the entire house silent and it seemed as if nobody was at home. As I wanted to freshen up, I went to the bathroom and found the door ajar. In half daze I pushed the door and stepped in.

I was shocked to see that the lady of the house was taking a bath and as a real gentleman I quickly jumped out and closed the door behind me. Then I remembered one of those words I was first taught as a child. By reflex action I opened the door again and said ‘SORRY’, only to find that the lady was standing in the bathtub as opposed to being covered in soap bubbles when I had opened the door the first time.

As I banged the door shut after saying sorry, I distantly heard the young lady murmuring ‘THANKS’.

Eventually I realized that the young lady used to take a bath when her baby would sleep and would keep the bathroom door ajar so that she could hear her baby cry when woken up from sleep.