Never... I repeat... N E V E R!

I learnt some lessons today after having my lunch! How???

Disclaimer: Okay, now for hardcore non-veg eaters, I might offend you with this post. But just put yourself in my shoes and think that you are a vegetarian turned in to non-vegetarian and don’t know much to eat beyond the chicken!

The situation was: My colleague AJ wanted to give a treat to me and PY (other colleague of mine). Apparently I and PY are veggies (to be specific brahmins) by birth. But as majority of the other Brahmins, we do eat nonveg food out (we are supposed to, no? :D). So today we went out for lunch with AJ who is a complete non-vegetarian

Initially we decided to go somewhere else, but ended up going to the pizzeria. We ordered for some pasta, a pizza n some iced-tea. Now AJ wanted to have some starters and she ordered for something which was made of a squid!!! As she said it’s similar to prawns and we, being a quite unaware about nonveg food, had it. It was not that bad neither was very good. Everything was fine until now. Then... After coming back, I was discussing about the food with Nessa - yes, she is the food-goddess for me :), esp. for nonveg food – n was updating her about what I had for my lunch... I came to know that squid is something like octopus!!! W H A T??? Did you say Octopus? I mean the animal with eight legs or something like that? *speechless-shocked-surprised-n don’t know what all*. After eating it I actually had thought that those were some different kind of prawns *embarrassed*! As being the computer geeks (we are software engineers you know :P :D), I and PY immediately goggled for the picture of the squid on the internet. Hahhh... *sigh*... it was not a pleasant site. :

Anyways by the time I am writing this it’s in my stomach now and I am not going to take that out for anything :D. And nothing like I am upset because I ate some weird animal (which I think millions of people in this world must be eating). But this is a question of my lack of the knowledge and my blind trust on someone whom I don’t know well. (here, I am not blaming AJ at all, because know she was very genuine and didn’t force me to eat it.)

Lesson: Never do anything before having a sufficient (and not necessarily complete) knowledge of anything. Never trust anyone blindly so that you will not be in any kind of awkward situation!

People... Please excuse me if I am over-reacting and over-analysing the thing. But I think these are very small things through which you get to learn lots of important lessons.