1st bout of Creativity

Well the credit for the idea of this post goes to The Island Girl. Her insistence and my enthusiasm has delivered this raw post.
We did an assignment on the first day of my masters. It was a creative writing assignment and we had to make a short story including 5 words that did not really have any connection each other.
The words were DOOR, AXE, MIRROR, DRAIN, LEG

A Garlicky Gratis

It was the worst possible start to the week. Someone actually tampered with my morning fix.
At 9.00 am I am in a coffee shop in the suburbs, waiting for the delivery of my drug of choice. I see myself in the MIRROR towards the side of the counter.

The barista shouts out something I don’t catch and places a paper bucket on the bar.

A woman holding a similar cup approaches me and says, “Oops! Sorry that’s mine. I picked up the wrong one.”

She guiltily puts the one she has been holding back. I pick up mine, the one she has been holding back. I pick up mine, the one she has returned and after coming out look back through the glass DOOR. She smiles at me (Ooh, those cherry cheeks.) And I breathe into my divine AXE deo (dude you never let me down!) Her lymph like figure was as ravishing as Tendulkar’s drive to the LEG side

Anyways I reach office. I take a sip and spit it all over my keyboard. In those 30 seconds, that she was holding my drink, she apparently added half a kilo of cinnamon, a slice of ginger and something tangy which smells suspiciously of garlic.

So the coffee goes down the DRAIN. The day gets worse as the coffee machine in the office catches flu and the owner of a small edifice which to a great extent looks like a barn turned ‘chai ki dukaan’ dies (He serves some dreadful coffee, but its coffee..) Things start taking its toll as one of my appointments get cancelled. (Well I was expecting my drink there.) As I reach home at night, I straightaway head for the kitchen. But as luck would have it, the coffee box is empty. All I do is, deep breathe into it.

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As 2nd year begins tomorrow, its showtime again!