A watchman and a cook

Yesterday, a cook who made omelettes in Goel ( our internal mess equivalent) said that he had quit and he would be joining a ship in Italy. "So what?" 1 might wonder. Just that I always knew that he was slated for better things. Serving over 200 students everyday during breakfast, he knew the preferences of most of them, and knows on what days a particular student doesn't have eggs etc. He was also an active orkutter apart from being fluent in english, french, hindi & telugu.

When I slept over this, I remembered the watchman at my school. As the sole watchman for primary school, he was the care-taker for more than 2000 kids. He knew the pick up guy for each student and would ensure that every student went only with specified guy. No student could ever move out of the campus without his knowledge. He was such an indispensable resource that he had to continue working till about 65 years.

Looking baack, both these individuals impressed me a lot. Just thought will record this.