Hungry hungry

My vendors went to Penang during the weekend and visited a Chinese temple. It was the Hungry Ghost Festival month and they were burning hell notes.

One of them, A, absent mindedly picked up a note ‘worth’ 5 million on the floor, pocketed it and lost it on the way back.

The lights at the airport went off. The flight was delayed. They came to the office late.

Worse, our service is giving problems since Monday.

We were making fun of A today morning and his friends were asking how to solve this ‘curse’. The only way is obvious, burn something in replacement.

J: I guess A has to burn real Swiss francs worth 5 million.

M: Why do you burn this?

THL: Well, it’s to appease the Hungry Ghosts.

Me: Yeah, the Gates of Hell will open this month.

J: So we have to burn something for them?

DK: Yeah.

A: Hungry Ghosts?

DK: Yep.

A: I’m hungry all the time too. (Which is true, his stomach makes funny noises all the time)

M: Let’s just burn A.

And no one wants to return home in the same flight as A on Sunday.

J: Please change my flight. And warn everyone else in the same flight as A.

A: Good, I’ll have the whole plane for myself.

M: You really think the flight attendants and captain want to risk flying with you? Let’s just put A in a huge package with floats, tie it to a ship and haul it all the way to Switzerland.

A: So it’s better I don’t return again for the next project, ha.

Me: Smart A. This was your plan wasn’t it?

A: Yeah. I don’t want to come back. You are right. This is the only way these guys will let go of me.

Boy, I’ll miss working with these guys!

By the way, we are still under the ‘curse’.