Lunch???

Everyday sometime between 12 and 12:30 noon I get this one liner call ‘Coming for lunch?’…Sometime it is reduced to one word i.e. ‘Lunch???’. Five minutes past this call all of us or to be more precise all three of us would be sitting somewhere in that over crowded cafeteria which houses nearly 5000 ppl during lunch hours. It was at this moment that without telling you know it is imperative to talk while you munch the lunch. Infact it is for this reason people come to lunch in groups else who want witnesses while I gobble, nibble , gulp and swallow stuff. Anyways coming back to the point of interest , I have realized oflate that though talking itself is an art yet talking while eating is a different art altogether. After all you wouldn’t want to shower half of what you eat on others. At the same time an argumentative Indian cant help giving his/her two cents on any topic and several cents if the topic interests you and one can as well forget about lunch if the topic is corruption or comparison between US of A and India. Then there is that stylish movement of spoon/fork which if not used judiciously seems like you wanna feed the guy in front of you with your own hands. Not to forget while you have to seize the moment when you can take charge of the whole talkshow you also have to manoeuvre your way through maze of chapattis, rice , curry and salad so that you don’t fall behind on this front. At the end the quality of a lunch is in direct proportion with a quality discussion.