Devil in Disguise - 2999 9999

The culprit of all the extra kilos I have put on.
It’s so difficult to convince one’s rational mind to expend effort when there is an easier way!

Now there is absolutely no reason for me to move out of the house once my ass has settled in and it settles in as soon as I enter home.
I don even save the no. of the movie halls I need to call atleast once a week, its just so much simpler to call the DiD (anyway, it will be among the most recent calls)

DiD alias JustDial - Making people lazier
From looking for plumbers to ordering food you don even have to exert yourself to think!

I am reminded of the times of a home telephone directory. A large brown leather cover enclosing a huge bunch of tattered sheets, few of them stitched together typically the ‘e’, ‘q’ and ‘w, x, y, z’ but most of them are on their own. They still manage to stay in chronological order coz of the utmost care all users take of it. You open it and you will see scribbles in various colours, mostly blue and smudged blue. The handwriting of everyone in the house can be seen here; the contact details of all people we know are penned here, making it the single resource for all.
There is a fixed place for it, next to the huge telephone set.
At times the sanctified book goes missing! and then there is chaos. The search for the telephone book is rampageous, the whole house goes helter-skelter, with mom’s incessant ‘how difficult is it to put things back at their place!’ in the background. She will say the same thing in direct speech, indirect speech, in hindi, English, in an angry tone, helpless tone, getting dramatic and then she might add one line about each of our individual carelessness, we get scared that old stories of irresponsibility are gonna be narrated again now, The fear is causing panic, the search is getting more and more aggressive and finally the maid finds it! And there is peace again, everyone gets back to what they were doing.. huh!
(But there is one hunt which can beat this one, the hunt for the TV remote!)

I wonder where the phone book is now, Mom still takes care of it.
We changed our loyalties and moved to the mobile phone book and now are preys to the indispensable DiD.
Kudos to the creator!