This is a small funny story of my uncle, Sabu Jacob who recently got promoted as Chief Manager and had a transfer to Delhi. He has never been out of state and doesnt know Hindi too. So he went there and after a few days he got the hang of it and learned to adjust with hindi people.

One fine day he decided to take a rikshaw to bank. Its not so far, he asked the rikshaw-wala whats the fare and he replied, “Pachees rupya saab”. Uncles said, “nahi nahi, theess rupya dega”. Rickshaw-wala, “Nahi saab pachees bas hai”. Uncle finally agrees on the rate and went to the bank.

For those who are not well in touch with hindi, heres a small reference: pachees-25, theess-30, pachaas-50. My uncle thought the rickshaw-wala was asking for Rs.50 for a small ride and he had a good deal with bringing the rate down to Rs.30. But actually the guy was asking for only Rs.25.

We all had a good laugh hearing this. Theres one more story from uncle. So after he has been in Delhi for about one month, when he returned for a family function, my cousin asked him whether he learned hindi and replied yes, a bit. So as a test my cuz asked him to tell the hindi of a number and he randomly selected 137. My uncle paused for a minute and the replied, “its ek-so-sainthees” (hey me too not sure about the exact hindi, but something similar to that). We were all amazed at this and asked how did you manage to learn all those numbers with this short time ? He said, “Who learned its the door number of my house which am staying and thats the only number i know in hindi”. We all burst into laughs again.

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