Who’s this guy?

George – wishing one and all in the company with his pleasant and immensely heartwarming mail. His Diwali greeting was all about India. A ppt as an attachment where slides contained grand old people of first two worlds praising India as the only place for salvation of mankind and more. I found it truly amazing, something that I have never seen before. In all excitement to reply to his mail with few good words, Quickly, I mailed my colleague to know who had sent this mail with the body of the mail as “Whos this guy?”

And there I committed a mistake of my life.

What’s wrong in knowing about a guy who has written so well about India as a country of sensible people?

Nothing wrong in that for sure until I directed the mail to George himself.
And who’s this guy? None other than George Koukis - our Company’s Chairman from Switzerland.

What more, failed attempts to recall the mail electronically. Not once but several times like a mad man’s menace with gadgets. Followed it with a sincerely apologizing mail asking him to ignore my reply to his mail. Continued with a note of appreciation for his gratifying wishes. By now that would have sounded like ultimate flattery.

After almost three hours, with discomfiture mounting with every moment in anticipating reactions of the Chairman, a mail arrived in my Inbox. Mail successfully recalled at 6:04 PM, October 15, 2009.

A great sigh of relief