Excuse Me.. Do You Know My Middle Name…
Filed under: Behind the screen..., Funny!!!, Very strange!!, uuphh yeh life!!! — chapters @ 12:04 PM
You know, it feels wonderful and lovely when a complete stranger in a crowded train recognises you by just your name and praises you for something you had done 2 years back… 
Yes, it happened with me.
Last Friday, after office, I was at the Howrah station to board a train to Bhubaneswar, my home-town. At about 10.30 PM, the train came to the platform. All the people boarded the train and so did I. After I located my bearth, I sat there waiting for the train to start the journey.
There was another girl sitting in front of me. Due to some reason, the conversation started. Lets call her, Girl I Met On The Train (GIMOTT).
GIMOTT : Which company are you in?
Me : XYZ.
GIMOTT : Ohh… I am also in the same company. [Smiles]
Me : Oh… That’s good! [Smiling back]
GIMOTT : What’s your name?
Me : Sxxxxxx…
GIMOTT : Sxxxxxx what?
Me : Sxxxxxx Sxxxx. [Successfully omitted my middle name which I really hate]
GIMOTT : Sxxxxxx Sxxxxxx Sxxxx ??? [Successfully re-added my middle name which I seriously hate]
Me : How do you know my full name??? [Totally Surprised... ]
GIMOTT : You contributed some story in our company’s creative writing competition?
Me : Yes… but that was long time ago… around 2 years back.
GIMOTT : You won’t believe… I was very eager to meet you. That story was awesome and after reading that I tried to find you out, but never could.
Me : [Now beaming and smiling from ear to ear] Oh really… Thank you
She was talking about my first story Forgiven, which got a runners up award in my company’s creative wrtiting competition. I was really pleased, that someone, a total stranger, could recognize me for some story I had written a long time back. At that moment I thought about updating my blog, continue writing. Who knows, some other day, in some other train, I would meet some other stranger who also would know my middle name!!! 
