It was a hot summer sunday in a Bangalore when my two friends and I had come to Barbeque Nation after a stressful week at our internship. It had been a week with great deal of work as we were entering into the new quarter of business. Data assimilation had been a huge task and compiling it into excel reports had been almost completed. We were relaxed as the next week work was majorly about creating presentation and presenting them. After the beautiful meal, we went to watch “Black Panther” and returned back home. After working hard for the first three days of the week on presentation and getting them approved it was the night before the day of presentations. My friends and I were having a gala time at a nearby hotel and the conversation went on to playing truth or dare. I was the first one to be on the answering side and I chose “dare”. Taking the advantage of the situation, my friends asked me to interact with one of the girls sitting on the other table and offer her a drink. They got a drink and now it was my turn to go ahead and do my part. I went across the table, thinking how to approach her. I starting by asking –“Do I know you?” she turned towards me and it was an obvious “no”. She seemed to be more of a person who usually doesn’t drink so I was afraid to ask her. I asked a few questions on where she works and told a bit about myself. After roughly 15 minutes of casual conversation, I asked her if she would be interested in a drink and she got stunned. Looking at her gestures, I got afraid and the glass from my hand dropped at spoiled my clothes. She left the place and I came back to my seat. After paying the bill and the amount for broken glass, I came home.
As soon as I reached my home, I saw received a notification from my manager who told me that there were more performance metrics to the presentation that were to be added. I rushed to my laptop to connect to the data server and started pulling the data. After few hours of data crunching and getting the metrics, I added another slide to my presentation deck and went to sleep. Next day morning, after getting my deck verified, I started dressing up, only to realize that one of the formal shirts got spoiled last night. My fear aggravated when I realized that other shirts were also in laundry. I went to google to see if there is any nearby pantaloons store (because it had purchased the other formal shirts from pantaloons) and found one ten minutes away. I booked a cab and rushed to the store. I went straight to the first floor and asked for help. The staff was so cooperative and quick to action that it took me not more than 10 minutes to complete the purchase.
I ran out of the store, booked a cab to my office and dressed up in the cab. I entered the presentation room 5 minutes before the time which was barely sufficient to set up the projector and have a quick run. The presentation turned out to successful as the new metrics entered into the presentation were much liked. Also the additional efforts that I put in to generate insights was much liked. It was my hard work and the way things happened that made my day.