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Free pizzas at home

On 14 August 2005, leaflets announcing an Independence Day
scheme—one pizza free on purchase of one—were being distributed
by Dominos. My younger daughter was excited about it. But I put
a damper on her, saying we had already exceeded the month’s
expenses, so no pizzas. Mockingly, she said, “Guruji this is not fair;
you know I love pizzas.”

In the evening, we had friends from Guruji’s sangat come over for
dinner. I prepared the dinner in advance. When they came in the
evening they said the children wanted to have pizzas so they had
ordered two large ones. They were not aware of the scheme. So when
the delivery came, two free pizzas were missing. The delivery person
gave two pizzas and went back to get the other two. Meanwhile,
when we opened the box, one pizza was non-vegetarian whereas
the order had been for vegetarian pizzas. We rang up the pizza
company; they apologized and offered to rectify the error. By this
time, the other two pizzas had also arrived and the error had been
repeated. At this point of time, our friend lost his cool and called up
the manager. He came to our place along with his colleagues and was
profuse in his apologies. He offered to return the money, but since
our friends had already paid, the free pizza offer was extended at our
discretion, i.e., we could have four extra large pizzas whenever we
wanted. Since we couldn’t finish the four pizzas for dinner, we had
them for breakfast too. We had a great time gorging on free pizzas
for the next few months.

My husband gets a corporate job

My husband has been a marketing person in the pharmaceutical
industry. He has always had a field job, with no office and no
fixed timings. Three years ago, when he was posted in Karnataka
we missed him badly. Once I was at the Bade Mandir sitting in the
hall, eyes closed. I was thinking that it would have been nice if my
husband had a routine office job where I could pack his lunch.
Suddenly, a lady from the sangat came to me and said your wish
is granted. Surprised, I opened my eyes and found her equally
surprised. Within a couple of months, my husband had to resign,
and later, thanks to Guruji, he got a corporate job that has no field

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