The funnier side of building a house
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Building a house is a lifetime experience. Here are some hilarious freebies that accompany the effort.
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CONSTRUCTION JOURNEY: Every owner can recollect amusing incidents.
For years, people toil to build their dream home. In spite of many problems, they are forced to cling on to their dream project. From ground-breaking to the housewarming ceremony, they would have seen many dark passing clouds. Owing to unseen pressures, many lose weight during the period and for some others, the inclination towards spirituality increases multi-fold. Surely, there will be a marked transformation in their personality. However, in the end, the fruit of labour tastes really sweet.
Many also recount interesting experiences during their journey. They seem funny when they look back and bring smile on their faces. Their experiences include encounters with reptiles, friendly or otherwise, and having to live with the fear of ghosts. Here they recount their memorable experiences.
C. Raje Urs and his friend, N. D. Kambar, both working in a public sector undertaking, bought sites in a new layout developed by a housing society in Basaveshwaranagar in Bangalore about 30 years ago. They started the construction work and appointed watchmen to guard the materials. As thieving of construction materials was rampant in the new layout, the watchmen fearing for their dear life did not return for work after a couple of days. Mr. Urs and Mr. Kambar appointed new watchmen. But they too disappeared after a few days. So, both the friends decided to double up as sentinels and every day, stayed at the construction site after returning directly from the factory. During nights, both started sleeping in an open area next to the construction site with two clubs to chase away thieves. “We went home only to take bath,” they said.
One Sunday, Mr. Urs had to leave for Mysore to attend a family function. He told his friend that he would return by night. That night, Mr. Urs reached Bangalore late and was at the construction site around 2 a.m.
While walking towards the place where both the friends usually slept, in the darkness, he saw someone moving towards a bush. First, Mr. Urs thought it was his friend. After a while, he realised that it was not him as Mr. Kambar was sleeping at his usual place.
A shocked Mr. Urs hastened to wake up his friend. “Hey Kambar, wake up, wake up…a thief, thief),” he whispered. Mr. Kambar, who was in a deep sleep, woke up suddenly. Both, somehow gathered strength and started searching for the clubs. Suddenly, the figure started moving towards them. Both overcome by fear did not move. When the person came very close to them, Mr. Kambar laughed.
He told his friend that it was his nephew. Mr. Kambar had asked his nephew to accompany him to the construction site as he was not sure whether his friend would return that night or not and the poor nephew had gone near the bush to attend nature’s call. “We all three had a hearty laugh that night,” said Mr. Urs.
Mr. Kambar also recalled the kind of difficulty they faced, while building the house. “One day, after waking up, I found that the ground around me was wet and water-logged. Later, I came to know that it had rained in the night. Because of tiredness, I had a sound sleep and I did not realise it was raining,” he said.
Mr. Srinivas, a software engineer, recalls how a person tricked him because of his overtly good attitude. While overseeing the construction of his house, a person came to him and introduced himself. He said he lived in the adjacent layout and gave some tips to Mr. Srinivas on construction. The next day, he returned and told Mr. Srinivas that he was constructing a “tulasi katte” at his house and faced a shortage of bricks, sand and cement. The gentleman asked Mr. Srinivas if he could spare four bricks and a little sand and cement.
Mr. Srinivas told one of the labourers to give the material. But this continued for many days and the gentleman collected the materials from the labourers whenever the owner was not around. Later, Mr. Srinvias gathered that the gentleman had erected the tulasi katte out of his “donations.”
A.B. SUDHINDRA
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