Entropy

Scene 1 Trinnngg.. Trinnnggg... The shrillness of the alarm clock woke me up... It is unusually cold and I did a futile attempt to find the alarm clock with the blankets still on. "But who has set the alarm clock. I normally keep the alarm in my phone" "Btw, today is Saturday and I couldn't recollect any early work." It was loud enough to interrupt my thoughts too. For a moment I sympathized with my kids who wakes up every day to this alarm. I slowly peeped out of the blanket and was a little frightened to see three pairs of eyes staring at me. "What happened?" I jumped out of the bed. Dad, Mom and Dimple extended their debit cards to me. "What happened? Where are you all going, handing over me all these?" "We are not going anywhere, you are going to the ATM" Dad was once again the strict father after a long time. "Really? It is still dark out there. What is the time? 5:00am? Have you a...

"Honey, can you take a cab today? I need to get to office early" Deepak shouted from the bathroom He felt proud about his discovery that bath time is the best to communicate bad news. Normally the reaction time for a 'not so bad news' is the time taken to fill a bucket of water. He got ready and picked up his bag. "What is the urgency today? " "I need to pick up a colleague from hotel. He is from US and need some guidance to reach office? " "Why cant he take a cab?" "He is new to the place, honey. And was looking for some help" "OK,  I need to leave now .Every second I spend here now, will be extra 10 mins in traffic" Deepak picked up the news paper and ran. "And what is the newspaper for?" "Today I would be taking the KR puram route" He shouted while running down the stairs. Rick had read a book on India to impress his Indian friends . He was watching out for the cows and mon...