Overnight Santa...
Overnight Santa ...
He was clearly disappointing me big time.. As my cell ranged I heard him say at the other end " Hey Neelima .. Can't make it to Lab tonight for our planned experiment .. Going for the rock show tonite ..cya in a bit".. I looked with exasperation on phone screen ..his heavy Metallica ring tone had already started reverberating in my phone .. " this Metallica generation " I muttered to myself and put it off.. Mike Henderson my undergrad trainee at Merkert Chemistry Centre , Boston College though a likeable typical Amerikan yo yo kind of rap chap but surely not my cup of tea as a trainee .. I muttered to myself shaking my head off....I was fast loosing hope of ever getting him to seriously concentrate on our designed experiments and to take the lab work seriously::.. His lack of patience for bookish concepts and knowledge never failed to irk me and make me more and more hopeless.."
Hey ! Chill lady .. We will make it happen.. " was his cool response as I shared with him the failure of our latest experiment .. I looked at his plug ons with exasperation and whispered " yea ! sure we will solve it .. with these ear crashing metals smashing our eardrums ".. I looked at his rhythmic steps in tune with the music on his earplugs.. He seemed to be half dancing in the lab where I was sitting with my reading material in one hand trying to work out a solution for my failing experiment .. " Mike ! This is not funny .. At least walk straight ".. I snapped at him ..he suddenly turned towards me with a sombre look with one of his eyebrow up in a quizzical way " U cross lady ?? I mean seriously ?? "..he grinned at me .. I nodded absentmindedly and continued working and reading .. Then suddenly there was a grand transformation in his whole attitude .. Mike Henderson was all over the experiment all of a sudden.. He was in apt attention .. Back to pure business and in full attentiveness .. " at your service lady .. He bowed " as we sat down to brainstorm our next course of action to save the experiment..
Next morning I was shocked to see Mike in lab before any of us arrived..,and to my surprise he was looking neater.. Freshly showered .. Shaven .. And To my utter shock his smelly sweat shirt was changed too ..I almost fainted on that...Liking the changes I smiled at my ward encouragingly .. He then gave me a sheepish look and lead me to the experimental set up and gosh ! there it was ...the monitor screen of the HPLC beeped with values and parameters that we had been praying for in last few days..our experiment worked .. It was alive.. I was like " how and who made this work ?" He flashed a broad smile .. " Santa fixed it .. He read a lot and came tonight to set the experiment straight ... Merry Christmas lady .. Smile now .. For Santa sake please "...for the first time Mike Henderson got an encouraging pat on his shoulder from me which he shrugged off characteristically saying " whatever .. I am off with some friends tonite cee ya in new year lady " .. And as he half moon danced out of the lab with his plugs ons blaring on his ears again .. I indulgently smiled shaking my head and whispered " waise zor ki chapat Halke se Bachpan mien padni chahiye thi tumko .. But thanks my overnight Santa nevertheless ".. 😊
He was clearly disappointing me big time.. As my cell ranged I heard him say at the other end " Hey Neelima .. Can't make it to Lab tonight for our planned experiment .. Going for the rock show tonite ..cya in a bit".. I looked with exasperation on phone screen ..his heavy Metallica ring tone had already started reverberating in my phone .. " this Metallica generation " I muttered to myself and put it off.. Mike Henderson my undergrad trainee at Merkert Chemistry Centre , Boston College though a likeable typical Amerikan yo yo kind of rap chap but surely not my cup of tea as a trainee .. I muttered to myself shaking my head off....I was fast loosing hope of ever getting him to seriously concentrate on our designed experiments and to take the lab work seriously::.. His lack of patience for bookish concepts and knowledge never failed to irk me and make me more and more hopeless.."
Hey ! Chill lady .. We will make it happen.. " was his cool response as I shared with him the failure of our latest experiment .. I looked at his plug ons with exasperation and whispered " yea ! sure we will solve it .. with these ear crashing metals smashing our eardrums ".. I looked at his rhythmic steps in tune with the music on his earplugs.. He seemed to be half dancing in the lab where I was sitting with my reading material in one hand trying to work out a solution for my failing experiment .. " Mike ! This is not funny .. At least walk straight ".. I snapped at him ..he suddenly turned towards me with a sombre look with one of his eyebrow up in a quizzical way " U cross lady ?? I mean seriously ?? "..he grinned at me .. I nodded absentmindedly and continued working and reading .. Then suddenly there was a grand transformation in his whole attitude .. Mike Henderson was all over the experiment all of a sudden.. He was in apt attention .. Back to pure business and in full attentiveness .. " at your service lady .. He bowed " as we sat down to brainstorm our next course of action to save the experiment..
Next morning I was shocked to see Mike in lab before any of us arrived..,and to my surprise he was looking neater.. Freshly showered .. Shaven .. And To my utter shock his smelly sweat shirt was changed too ..I almost fainted on that...Liking the changes I smiled at my ward encouragingly .. He then gave me a sheepish look and lead me to the experimental set up and gosh ! there it was ...the monitor screen of the HPLC beeped with values and parameters that we had been praying for in last few days..our experiment worked .. It was alive.. I was like " how and who made this work ?" He flashed a broad smile .. " Santa fixed it .. He read a lot and came tonight to set the experiment straight ... Merry Christmas lady .. Smile now .. For Santa sake please "...for the first time Mike Henderson got an encouraging pat on his shoulder from me which he shrugged off characteristically saying " whatever .. I am off with some friends tonite cee ya in new year lady " .. And as he half moon danced out of the lab with his plugs ons blaring on his ears again .. I indulgently smiled shaking my head and whispered " waise zor ki chapat Halke se Bachpan mien padni chahiye thi tumko .. But thanks my overnight Santa nevertheless ".. 😊
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