Interaction Dossier - Antony

I spend a lazy afternoon in the only 24/7 CCD in the east of the country, the one in Infinity Towers, reading Liar's Poker. I leave early in the evening and reach home by 6ish. I am about to reach the guest house and I realize that my mobile is not to be found. I mentally backtrack to all the places that I visited through the day and all the calls that I made or received, it became clear that I left my mobile at the Coffee Day...

I pick my roomiez mobile and dial my number, an anxious voice greets me. I ask who it is and the voice booms back asking if I misplaced my mobile. I reply in the affirmative and the voice goes on to explain how the mobile was lying on a sofa and that the person found my mom's number in the dialled list and appraised her of the development, she was a good 1500ks away from the scene of occurance...

I was mighty pleased with the voice, the owner of the voice was a gentleman by name Antony. In his own words, 'I am the manager of the only round the clock CCD in the east'...

I went back to collect my mobile and that is when I first met him, he was a shortish, balding, peacocked (a Neil Strauss term, a person whose attire consists of one or more entities that are meant to act as conversation starters), accented guy. But what do I care, I got my mobile because of him and I thanked him for the same.

I ran in to him a couple of days later in the RDB CCD. 'Hi Sir!', he excused himself from a table packed with CCD managers and flambouyantly greeted me. He introduced me to the other managers, a development that proved useful later, will write about that later...

Our paths crossed on a few more occasions, mostly at one or the other CCD...

On one occasion, I walk in to the first mentioned CCD as run a bill of 310bucks, he walks over to the table with a sidekick, again flambouyantly, and declares that we did not have to pay for our consumption but should do for the cookie boxes (3 of them, each worth 110 each) that he will offer us and that the 'beverages were on the house'...

Me being me, I got suspcious and checked the expiry date, they had 3weeks left in them. I could have turned down the 'offer' but then let it be, the mobile episode remember...

It actually turned out to be a good deal, I exchanged one of them for 2 coffees at anoter CCD. Someone whom I owed a hundred bucks wanted to munch on cookies, I was only too glad to repay in kind. The third one earned me a good amount of 'dua' from a mendicant who was longingly staring at the can.

That was about the deal, not coming back to the dude.

The other day I was in the same ol' CCD and he grabs the order book from a waiter who was walking towards out table and did so himself.
'I will be moving to the South City CCD', he informed, rather proudly...
'Oh, is it like a promotion?', his demeanour seemed to suggest that is was a good development...
'Yes, a much bigger place, you should come some time', he suggested...
'Yeah, sure bro, I will and Good luck'.

That was our last interaction.

Signing off...