Bikram Vohra
JournalismPakistan.com
April 4, 2021

If my call is so important to them, why don’t they answer it for 22 minutes?

How come when I want to, but something specific online is the only item out of stock.

When I get into a queue or lane going fast, the moment I get in, it becomes the slowest and refuses to budge.

I am the only person on the planet who has an ongoing inimical relationship with autocorrect.

Mine is the only flight that is delayed even in the COVID era.

Every month some added unforeseen development wrecks my budget.

The last parking spot gets stolen because I am standing in good manners.

I fall for sob stories even when I know it is a con.

I never have as much money as I thought I had.

When it is my turn to reach a counter, the person behind it says closed and walks away.

The printer runs out of ink just when I have to make an urgent ultra-important copy of a needed document.

My order for dinner is the only one that gets delayed, gets soggy, is the wrong item, or they don’t send the chopsticks and the chili oil.

I drop a note from my pocket and have no clue where it is.

My phone runs out of charge when most needed. And my charger wire looks like it was in a war.

My mobile phone has a cut streak right across its face, and I have no idea how.

Keys and pens plot against me.

I shop for my wife, and it is the wrong size, the wrong color, the wrong thing.

The gas finishes just as guests arrive.

(The writer is a Senior Editorial Advisor of Khaleej Times and the paper’s former Editor. He has also been the Editor of Gulf News, Gulf Today, Emirates Today and Bahrain Tribune)