Article - 53 Week 10
A Conversation With A Wily Fox:
A man without conscience and a sense of duty is like a wily fox. Uncannily our system of administration is composed of such departments and individuals, pretending to govern our nation. We are like a herd of sheep seeking no other better way than submitting to these wily foxes.
Wily Fox : [Clears throat….]
Sheep : Sir, when can I have my Tax Registration completed?
Wily Fox: Hmm… The address on your electricity Bill is smudged!
Sheep: Am extremely sorry Sir! Here is the Original Bill.
Wily Fox: That's not enough. You have started business since 3 months and applied for Registration a month back? This is tax evasion. You will be served a notice.
Sheep: [Stutters and fidgets] Sorry, Sir. I did not know, that my business would survive 3 months that time.
Wily Fox: Now that it has survived, you will be served a notice. This could amount to six month's imprisonment and Rs 500/ penalty in addition to tax on all transactions with interest there upon.
Sheep: Sir … Sirrrrjee …. Please please do some thing ….. You know how difficult life is for people like me …
Wily Fox: Then you go to Appeal. Or you can move to Court.
Sheep: Which is better Sirjee?
Wily Fox: Hmm …. Both are pointless….Everyone knows that….Appeallate will interpret this against your favour, because we have a target of collection … Court will take so long that the judgement can be expected long after you are dead and gone. Hmmm…
Sheep: Sir….hushhhhh … How much?
Wily Fox: Are you offering ghoos? Just go away ...Hmm
Sheep: Sirrrjeee … Please help me!
Wily Fox: Look. I don't discuss any thing here. Call me after office hours.
At 7 PM the same day, the sheep dials Wily Foxs mobile number
Wily Fox: Halooo...Ho, you are Mr Sheep...I'll call back….
Cuts the phone and redials after an hour
Wily Fox: Mr Sheep. Come in 20 minutes time to Lola's Night Club.Bye.
Cuts..Then meets Mr Sheep in the Nightclub
Wily Fox: Look. We are friends. Put your mobile off. These days you can record any thing…..Let's be direct….1.5 Lakhs will do..
Sheep: Stutters..Sirrrr..That is too much..I can not afford..I don't even make that much…
Wily Fox: All in cash..I'll tell you who to hand over and when..
Sheep: Please make it lesser...I'll pay 50 thousand..
Wily Fox: Hmmm… Looks like you are new...Never mind..1.2 Lakhs …. No more or no less … And wait for my call in a week's time..
Sheep: OK Sirrrr….. 1.2 Lakhs..Done…
Looks down at the table in defeat and gulps the vacuum in his soul and thinks that a Consultant would cost him close to that in addition to running around the pillars...
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