Silence is Golden !!

         Lemme tell u a story. An experience , u can call, coz only after that incident did we realize “Silence is sometimes truly golden”!
When I was in Paris, I reported to a person called ‘Mr.X’(let it confidential atleast till I’m in this company), who was one of the most respected of the French managers, which reputation, he had earned primarily because of his two qualities; was always to the point while answering something (infact anything) and was really an open book. What he spoke was exactly what he had in him.

         This being the case, once we (myself and 2 others) were having our lunch with Mr.X. We had brought our ‘self-made’ chitrannas and pulyogres while he was enjoying his usual food, the beef and some legumes. As we dint find any better topic to chew with the food, we tried pulling his legs as we asked him directly, why French people weren’t yet familiar with spoken English, even though it was indeed, the global language??

         Yes, French people hardly speak English. They don’t know it infact. Even today, grandpas and grandmas insist that their children should learn only French. For French, setted, hadded, telled , planned..all are fine. (Yes, planned is fine for us also). I can say may be fifty percent of the population know English, not more than that.
So we were eagerly waiting for the justification our one point manager was about to give. But then, what he said made us reconsider our intentions of mocking him after that.

          “ You know English as you were under British. We weren’t, so we don’t ” .