2006 : A Croissant Story

I was chilling in!?, literally i was freezing my ass off, in the back seat, when the voice said, Vinod, empty the brown paper bag and give it to me after transferring the chipotle fajita wraps into the polythene bag. I am going to give you a few croissants. You could have it for breakfast. "..emmh, croissants, i could wip couple eggs up and make a croissant sandwich and some OJ" that sounds like an exciting proposition.. (unlike masculine JlO in green). Sure! but just give me one, just one, i said in my indoor, post oscar voice. I heard the croissant case crack open, not exactly a hard crackling sound but kind of soft one, the kind that you hear when thin sheet of plastic is sheered off. Car picked up speed and so did the noise level, sinking with it, operation croissant transfer's noise. The brown bag from chipotle started moving towards me, at a speed, which i realized later, slower than that of sound. This could conclusively be proven from the fact that after the bag started its journey and before it could reach me, a Voice over took it and hit me first (The same voice which wanted me to empty the brown paper bag). "Voice" said, "here ya go, there is ONE croissant in the bag for you". I took the bag with one croissant in it and held it in my right hand and later got out of the car and waved "Voice" and Voice's husband goodbye,while holding 'the bag with one croissant' in my right hand. 'The bag with one croissant' started moving again, this time with me, at a speed slower than that of sound, proof of which i am choosing not to write to save the bored minds from further boredom. But the curious minds could obtain a copy of the proof by sending an email to me with subject "Subsonic Croissant".

In the morning i opened 'the bag with one croissant' only to find three in it. Three Croissants? Croissants have tripled overnight? Darn! Was it the bag that tripled the croissants or did the croissant triple itself? i know, i know this may not be as prodigious as the vessel that panchaali had, which could churn out any amount of food, variety of food, that too Indian! ..but i thought this was still quite something and started making quick mental calculations. .. If there was one croissant last night and if there are 3 this morning, How many will be there tomorrow? Will the number of croissant's increase in arithmetic progression or will it increase in geometric progression. If indeed it increases in geometric progression, which i hope it would, how much time before i could open a whole sale croissant shop and make Costco my retail seller? In time as the number of croissants increase and as demand picks up at what point should i consider getting listed in NasDaq? ..and at what point further in time should i flex muscles with DOW, dough might sound more appropriate in conjunction with croissants, but i really meant DOW. And as time passes and the numbers increase, to keep the demand up, should inter-galactic markets be pursued and if so, should a spin off be planned investing heavily in cleaner and efficient nuclear and alternative fuel making such missions cost effective?

One Croissant from a friend's place : 0.00
One Croissant from Panera : $
One dozen Croissant from Costco : $$
The joy of trash talking, Priceless!!!

Joy, trash talking and mastercard apart, Should the tripling of croissant be dismissed as a freakish coincidence? Or should i be saying

"Many Many Happy Returns of the Day"