Pack of Peanuts

Sitting idle in the office can sometimes get into your head. After a lot of aimless wandering through websites and blogs, it suddenly came to my mind that I should write one. Generally, I do not yield to such frivolous impulses but then as I told you, sitting idle in office space does get into your head at times.

As you are done with the opening lines of your first post, suddenly you are brought down to the earth as you are hit with the reality 'What to Write?'. Now you start a search through your brain looking for all those endless number of brilliant award winning ideas that went coming and going through your highly intelligent brain but you thought "Ideas..huhh..They keep coming and going, who cares.". Thinking bad about the way your ideas ditched you at such critical time of writing your first post, you look around for inspiration. So around you look.. computers, computers with coders, coders in cubicles, more cubicles ..what to write. Suddenly you realize there is something to talk about amongst this great scene of bland architecture..."Cost Cutting". But it happens everywhere..whats new to write? Well, the idea may be very old but the innovative ways in which companies take it forward need some mention. Now I start moving. looking around once again, not looking at computers or cubicles, but beyond them. Ahh, I found one, sugar for coffee instead of sugar cubes..and another one..cupboard with chips and biscuits is locked. I go to the security security guard standing besides the cup board watching me come towards him and gesture him to open the cupboard. He gives me a ugly look and then reluctantly takes out the key, opens the cupboard and lets me have a look inside. As I set my eyes on a small pack of peanuts and take it out he says "I think you took one an hour back". I give him an explanation of how it was my friend who took the peanuts and I was merely giving him company. He gets a little confused, tries to remember and finally lets me take the packet, with some reluctance.

Overjoyed with my second prized possession of the day in my hand, as I start a long walk towards my cubicle in the middle of those hundreds of cubicles, I hear a familiar voice. "Meeting in five minutes. Can you present something?". I think "Well..right now, I can only present this small pack of peanuts I guess". However, I somehow control my thoughts and agree to show a piece of work I have been doing for the last few days. I go to my desk, take some print outs and move towards the meeting room. As the meeting starts, I realize I have forgotten something. But what, print out - NO, pen, notepad - NO and suddenly it strikes me like a bolt of lightning - that small pack of peanuts, lying there near my computer. The scene of people gathered on my desk, devouring on those peanuts starts revolving around my head and I spend rest of the meeting trying to devise a new plan to get my hands, well mouth as well this time around, on another pack of peanuts. The meeting finally ends and with a grandiose scheme in my head, I walk back towards that cupboard. The cupboard is open and the guard besides it does not stop me. I feel a bit odd and unusual but carry on and move my hand in the cupboard feeling for that pack when I suddenly hear the guard laughing at me. "No more Peanuts from now on. That was the last pack you took".