Recently a bunch of people from Coimbatore became acquittance with me and they became important people in my life. I have had many problems with people from that region in my past. I am a Agile project manager and very open and jovial. Living in Tamilnadu, a place where there are lot of Coimbatore people, I had to manage them.

I have found that its those people who fall off from my team often. They are dull, don’t speak much and I feel their life is non-colorful and they have no taste and passion for Computer technology. It would look like they have learned computer science in a dream to get rich rather than for the love of it. Its very similar like two people in thirties getting married because they are getting aged quickly rather than they have really felt one another’s love.

When this Coimbatore bunch became known to me, I had forgotten the lesson what I had learned from them, possibly ignored it for my convenience and things struck one day.

It was an invitation to a function in Banglore that they wanted to attend with me. I was certain I will not be able to find tickets on a train and since bus travel will be tiring and aircraft ridiculously expensive when booked short I said no.

Time passed. One person in that gang, I still don’t know what happened to him, possibly he was drunk, God knows, called me one day, just a few days before the function was about to happen. He said that he will not attend the function if I do not attend it. I was confused. That guy kept repeating the same thing again and again despite me refusing it repeatedly. In a haste to end the conversation I said I will attend. I honestly thought that’s the end of it.

This first thing made me wonder. Lets say that I am in a hotel with a friend of mine, I order poori and friend orders rava dosai. Even though that person is a friend of mine, will it be okay if I insist that I will eat poori only if my friend orders it too? Shouldn’t one respect others privacy and choice? Here is the second one…

Then that guy (, possibly more pegs must have gone in by now) said I must make sure another senior person too must attend the function. I said tickets are not available on train and it was verified by some travel agent who made a living by booking train tickets. But that guy went on. ‘There are four trains available, you must get tickets’. Like a tape recorder he repeated this too despite me telling him again and again the facts.

I seriously had no idea what happened to that person and began to worry. His opinion about me counts. I really thought something happened to him, the drunk theory did not cross my mind then.

I told a person very close to them, and asked if they had influenced this guy to speak like this. For some reason it became a serious issue and this Coimbatore gang thinks bad of me. All I was really doing at that time was ending my day, wishing for good sleep and thinking about my company and felling grateful to what I had.

Its strange what rules people have. I was invited for a Hindu function. Hindus in India can have very strange beliefs and rules and you can see here in Strange Hindu Rules. Some how other Coimbatore people don’t find that person crazy, but they don’t wish to speak about this incident any more. People even say that this is showing respect in Coimbatore style. Well, then this is the strangest piece of thing I have ever encountered in my life.