CAUSE, EFFECT & REMEDIAL ACTION

I get in to adventure mode very often. Unfortunately it turns out to be a misadventure most of the times. I can’t help and I cannot refrain from trying to be adventurous again in spite of my previous failures. This time I decided to paint my table which had serious termite problems. I have always believed in “ Do it Yourself ” philosophy. So I decided to do it myself. I bought wood guard and applied it to the problem areas.  I achieved 100 % success. I was buoyed up and excited by success. I was floating on cloud nine. I felt “ Well Begun is….. ”. So I took out the oil paint which was left over after the painting works of interiors and doors of my house. I added turpentine as an expert would have done. I checked up the viscosity and color shade. I was satisfied with my artistic skills and was happy within.

I took out the drawers and opened the front shutters of the shelves under the table, cleaned up and started painting from the back side and then the drawers. SO FAR SO GOOD. My excitement was increasing leaps and bounds, exponentially. The Master Painter was at work. I asked my wife to come and see the progress. I was motivated by her initial good words. I asked her to capture the moments in our camera. Those all moments were like best moments of my life, as if, and hence needed to be captured for sharing with all my relatives, son in laws, friends etc. After all, I am a recognition savvy person, I admit that. 

CAUSE : 

Now, the painting of shelves under the table started. Top shelve was done. No issues, no problems whatsoever. I felt that a Great job was done methodically & systematically. Then the bottom shelf was done. I exclaimed and shouted “ Wow!! ” . Archimedes’s words “ UREKA ” became a history, so would mine be too, I thought.

I started the second coat, after a gap of about couple of hours. I realized that the surface had not dried completely, but I decided to continue. I had to bend and shove my head inside to reach the inaccessible parts of the shelves. The painting was thus completed. There were some paint spots on my hands. I removed those by applying kerosene soaked swab.  I was then relaxing in the sofa, when my wife saw some thing on my face and screamed “ What is this ”. This was only a beginning. A barrage of questions followed in high pitch tone, like bullets from AK 47. “ What have you done? ”, “ Who had asked you to do painting ?”and so on. Still I did not know what was wrong. 

EFFECT: 

I had already lost my zeal and enthusiasm and had almost lost all my energies. I asked meekly “ What happened ?”.  I had forgotten for a moment that she has " Simha - Leo Rashi / Zodiac Sign ". These people are aggressive by nature , you know.

She shouted “ Look at your hair…… they are all coated with paint ”. I touched my hair. These had become stiff. I went to the mirror, and said lightly this is “ SPIKE Style ”. That acted as fuel to the fire. She thundered “ What nonsense?”. Now I was speechless and defenseless, as always. I told her not to worry because I would remove that with kerosene like I did for my hands. She said “ Are you crazy? ”.    “ Don’t be stupid, You are allergic, don’t do anything like that ” , she said firmly and authoritatively.  I threw up my white towel in a mood to stop further assault.

In the mean time, her elder sister dropped in. when my wife told her the whole thing, she looked at me and laughed. Now the atmosphere eased out. Thanks to her, really. They both then advised me to go to the barber and get a size zero hair cut.

The barber saw my state, understood the problem and did the remedial action. Luckily, we still have almost two months for Anupama’s marriage on November 30, 2013. So I have sufficient time to regain normalcy.

 REMEDIAL ACTION:

So Once again it is proven that every action has a CAUSE & an EFFECT & a REMEDIAL ACTION . Q. E. D.