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Just one life is enough..!

ROBERT CLEMENTS

A few years ago my manager who looked after my company entered my office and hesitatingly told me, ten thousand rupees in cash belonging to me, which was in his briefcase had been stolen.
"Was your briefcase also robbed?" I asked.
"No sir, the thief opened my briefcase while I was sleeping in the train and took only the money!"
"Strange!" I said and decided to get to the truth.
"Ronny!" I told him the next day, "Why don't we go to the club!"
Ronny readily agreed, I knew he would, as he loved the atmosphere at the club where he swaggered around and behaved like a little chieftain of some local tribe. We ordered drinks and then I began with my plan, which was to get him sloshed while I would hardly touch my glass; I was keen on knowing where my money had gone.  After a few drinks I turned to him, "Why don't we go to another place!" I said, "I'd like to go to where you normally go!"
"Sir!" he said, "I'll take you to a place you'll enjoy and my driver looked puzzled while Ronny directed him to a dance bar.
We entered and pretty girl at the door looked at Ronny and said, "Your usual table sir?" I smiled. At the table the waitress came up and asked whether he'd like the usual, and poor Ronny too drunk to realise I was there, nodded.
A girl started dancing to a filmy song and for a moment I wondered why she was staring in my direction till I found she was winking at Ronny, "Shall I make a hundred rupee bundle or a thousand rupee one to put on her?" asked the waitress, but Ronny was silent.  We left soon and next day Ronny confessed to having used the money to pay for his addiction. I sacked the fellow but thought of him today when I read about a wife who decides to take her husband to a strip club for his birthday. They arrive at the club and the doorman says, "Hey, Dave! How ya doin'?" His wife is puzzled and asks if he's been to this club before.
"Oh, no," says Dave. "He's on my bowling team."
When they are seated, a waitress asks Dave if he'd like his usual and brings over a Budweiser.   His wife is becoming increasingly uncomfortable and says, "How did she know you drink Budweiser?"
 "She's in the Ladies' Bowling League, honey. We share lanes with them."
 A stripper then comes over to their table, throws her arms around Dave, and says "Hi Davey. Want your usual table dance, big boy?"
Dave's wife, now furious, grabs her purse and storms out of the club. There's more to that story, but it's sad isn't it when wives or husbands find their spouses lead two lives? Why not stick to one, it's simpler and happier..!
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Published by the Editor on behalf of Independent Publications Limited at Media Printers, 446/H, Tejgaon I/A, Dhaka-1215.
Editorial, News & Commercial Offices : Beximco Media Complex, 149-150 Tejgaon I/A, Dhaka-1208, Bangladesh. GPO Box No. 934, Dhaka-1000.

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