Project open-the-tight-lid !
Well, day before yesterday I bought this 'Gorkari' pickle from 'Mayuri' - Indian grocery store. (SImilar to the one shown in the image) I really really like this achar ... its perfect ! As the name suggests its from Kairi (Raw Mango) and its Gor (sweet)... Just the right one for me !
So anyway, last two days, I was struggling to open the lid of the bottle. Every meal, I would try to open it for a couple of minutes and afterwards feel too hungry to try further .. but tonight I came home and decided that whatever happens, I am gonna open this damn lid today ! I think I started working on this open-the-tight-lid project at night around 9-ish. Tried it every possible way - with hands, with knife, with spoon ... everything ! But by 9.30 all I had was a few red-ish marks on my hands .. nothing else ! Ok, so the software engineer in me woke up and he thought that many people must have had this problem before and a few might have put up a better solution online ! who knows ! So he went and looked up on google, 'open a tight lid' and guess what ... as usual a few hits showed up ! a few suggested that you need to tie a rubber band around it and give yourself better grip and hence friction ! Well, I didnt have rubber but I had tried similar ways and they had not worked ... so I ignored that one ! The other remedy was to use a nutcracker ! Well, I didnt have that one either ! Apart from these two things, basically there werent any releavent results ! ... My roommate said, lets take the bottle to the same Indian store and get it opened from them ! But I was not ready to accept defeat just like that ... defeated by a lid ??? shame on you I said to myself !
So the frurstrated software engineer gave one last push on the lid with all the strength and this time it opened !! Around 10 O'clock ... it opened !! Can you imagine ? 1 hr wasted on opening one damn lid !!! But I was sooo damn happy, as if I had climbed mount everest !! I jumped in joy ... did bhangda !! what not ... it was my victory !! yes ! victory over a stubborn non-opening lid !! It meant more than anything at that point ...
Setting goals for yourself and achieving them gives hell lot of pleasure ... hai na ?
Labels: food
posted by Aniruddhaat 8/08/2006 12:02:00 AM
2 Comments:
lol!!!! So what DID you do the last time that it opened?? How about you put up something on the net in such a way, that if anyone else googles for it, they get your secret way as a result!!
I wish there was anything special that I did the last time which I could write and put up online ... but there wasnt ! It was basically the final push with all the strength which did the trick .. I think by then, the lid had become loose thanks to all my previous efforts :) .. so my advice would be 'just keep trying and hang in there ... victory will be urs !' :)
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