So me and Akanksha strolled towards the shop, that night and we were chatting about what we want for snacking, the final consensus was to have aloo paratha, so I turned towards one of the tawas, and there was a guy standing behind it, The helium bulb was shining right into my eyes, I couldn't see who that fellow was, even if I would have seen his face I would have not recognized him because those cooks used to get changed often, so I asked, "Bhaiya do paratha ban jaega kya?" (Can we have two Parathas) That fellow moved away from tawa and out of the light too and then all of a sudden started saying, "Do I look like a cook to you?"... I had a good look at him and saw he is some guy, to be honest not very gentlemanly clad or anything but just someone in sleeveless T-shirt and some lower, anyone could've made that mistake with him under the light and standing behind the stove and tawa. Still my apologetic mode got switched on, and I said sorry in a very high tone of embarrassment. By that time the original cook came in front and started saying "no problem mam tell me what you want?" and before I could repeat my order that fellow again started saying something with his friends, "Kamaal hai yaar, cook samjh liya" (Funny people they thought I am a cook) and then his friend started saying, "AIIMS ke doctor ko cook samjh liya, kaise log hain" (They couldn't differentiate between the cook and a Doctor of AIIMS)... now at this point I got a little angry, first of all it was an honest mistake, he was standing right behind the tawa and even if I called him cook, why it is that big a deal? Is that cook, that you don't want to be mistaken for, is not earning money through hard-work or he's not doing his best at his job, second what is the point of saying those things out loud, how bad it might have sounded to that cook... trying to make me feel embarrassed some more they actually might have hurt that poor cook... There were times when in clinics and hospital wards patients and their attendants used to call me 'sister' (a word we use to address the nurses) some of my friends would stand up for me, sometimes my juniors and tell them that I am a doctor and not the nurse, but I never used to correct them, when I was in my late teens and early twenties kids used to call me 'auntie' all the time, can't blame them, I had grown to become a fat lady, easy to be mistaken for a woman in her 30's... My point is, people do mistake and they get embarrassed by that too, why make someone feel embarrassed for an honest mistake...
But then I realized actually big Dr sahab was himself embarrassed and by saying these things he was getting over the humiliation he had undergone...
