Murphy's Law!!!

"If something can go wrong, then it definitely will."

How true that became today (13 June)???Monday mornings in SM are the same. Reach office early and restart the services machine as it some network problem would have occured and it would have stopped working. And this Monday was no different. Restarted the machine and the machine's remote connectivity was lost. Today I took the initiative to directly go to the place and activate it again. Reached the building where the machines are maintained using my colleague's ID card. Activated the remote connectivity and called my colleagues to check it from our building. No problems at all. Started returning back from the godown (This is a much better word when one actually visualises the place where our production services machine are maintained). Trouble started here.

I was two floors beneath the ground level. Had to use a lift to get back to the ground level. Pressed the button and was waiting for the lift to come down. Sensed some problem when I saw that the light indicating some one had requested for the lift went off as soon as I had released the hand from the button. Waited for nearly ten minutes and not a soul passed me. I had no clue if someone would pass by to help me out. Did not call my friends as I did not want to disturb them. Just then I noticed a guy walking towards me. Was overjoyed at the thought that there was someone with me now to share my agony and he would be able to get both of us out of trouble. Got excited as kept coming closer towards me. He came closer and closer and finally he walked past me. Hiding my disappointment, I approached him and asked him if there was any problem in the lift. He just shrugged his shoulders and kept on moving. My ray of hope had vanished so soon. More than 15 minutes had passed by then. My colleagues called me to know if there was any problem. They were expecting some other kind of problem like being caught by security personnel for entering restricted area without proper access. I explained the problem to them and they said they would come down to help me out. Was waiting patiently for her to come. By now two more guys joined me and they too wanted to go up. They started hitting the doors of the lift loudly so that somebody could hear them but alas of no use. All of us stared at one another exchanging blank looks. After a long time of loud shouts, a service man heard us. We explained the situation to him and taking pity on us, he asked us to come up via a "hidden" staircase that was very close by. Finally reached ground level. My colleague too had come to that building by that time and was analysing the possibilities of trying to bring me up with another worker.

Could not imagine / experience a much better Monday morning.....