Joy of Giving - Post II

I was walking along the Pune-Sholapur highway towards Magarpatta junction to catch my auto to Amdocs. Two small kids, a boy aged around 8 and the girl a couple of years younger to him, passed by; and they were asking people for some money. I never give money to those who beg. There are many people who beg when they can actually do some work. And about those who really cant work, I believe many of them only earn for their 'employers'.

Coming back to those kids, I wanted to give them something then. First because it was 'joy of giving' week, and I was looking for an opportunity. And secondly, I wanted to start my birthday in a nice way! ;) In a minute they were in front of me, the boy said that they were very hungry and wanted something to eat. And when I asked them if they wanted some ice cream, I saw the girl's eyes glow. Both of them nodded quickly. We walked to an ice cream parlour which was a minute's walk ahead.

The place had just opened for the day. There were only two waiters inside. I asked one of them to get two double scoops of icecream for them. While having their ice cream they introduced themselves. The girl's name was Lakshmi and the boy was Maruti. He then showed me his name tattooed on his arm.
It was already past 10 and I was running late for office now. So I told them that I had to leave and then went to the counter to pay the bill. But as I was paying, both of them put the icecream into the vessels they had and rushed out! Have no idea why they did that! They were perhaps scared to eat there w/o someone to see that they weren't asked to get out by the waiters.

When I came out and looked around, they'd already vanished. I then continued my walk towards the junction.

No flowers please!!

This incident happened at my aunt's place a few days back...
It was her bday...Many ppl had sent her cards and bouquets for
the day...In the evening wen she came back home from
work, she found an upset servant lady standing at the door...
When asked if anybody had come home,she said that sum1 had
brought some flowers in the morning which she had kept inside...
but l8r another guy had brought a bunch of flowers,which the servant
lady refused to accept... she had told the fellow with the bouquet
that another person had already brought some flowers and that they didn't
need any more!! :) but the guy kept forcing her for a long time and then
she had to accept them...poor guy ;)