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THE LUCKY UNLUCKY DAY

Meet Andy, he lives in the suburbs, did his Bachelor's last year and is now preparing for MBA entrances. Searching for jobs was his daily chore, and getting rejected was his core ability.

It was a normal day for Andy until he changed the page of his daily calendar, his eyes broadened, and eyebrows rose due to shock. The day on the page was friday moreover the date was thirteenth. Shiver ran down his spine. "Today is the unlucky day, and for me― the most unlucky person on the earth, this day is gonna be as bad as a day on hell, I guess." he muttered.

He got ready for his interview and today he went out an hour early. He went to the garden near by to find a four leaf clover as he thought it will bring luck to him.

He kept on searching for a while and suddenly he found one four leaf clover, he got very exciting and jumped in the air. He bend to pluck that clover but instead he dropped his spectacles on the ground and accidentally stepped on them. Really bad luck was by his side today.

He became very angry, as his specs were too costly to be broken by him, moreover he could not see properly without his glasses. Due to which he lost the sight of the four leaf clover.

"Damn now that I have broken my specs what will happen in my interview? How will I get a job now... I can't see clearly without my specs." He thought and kicked in the air in anger. Unfortunately as there was dew on the lawn, he slipped and fell on the ground, thus hurting himself and his formals also got dirty.

He quickly went home to change and then went for the interview.

He was twenty minutes late for the interview. He went inside the hall and there were three interviewer sitting there, two male and one female.

He went inside and greeted them all.

"Good morning Sir." He said to all three of them.

"Hey can't you see I am a woman, why are you greeting me saying sir?" The madam said.

He looked closely, she had a boy-cut so he thought that she was a man as his vision was blurry due to absence of his specs.

He quickly made his statement and said―
"Actually I believe in gender equality and so I treat women equally as men. So I addressed you as as 'sir'. " He said with confidence.

"Damn it! I came late here and now I called her 'sir'. " He murmured and thought that his rejection was confirmed.

The interviewers looked at each other and exchanged some facial expressions.

The interview started. The interviewers asked him a few questions. Lucky he knew the answers to all of them.

"So Mr. Andy your knowledge test is completed, now can you solve any one side of this Rubik's cube ?"

His face covered in sweat and he became nervous as his vision had became blur due to the absence of his specs. "How will I solve this cube now? My rejection is hundred percent confirmed." He thought.

He took the cube to try his luck. He tried solving the yellow colour. He kept jumbling the cube for a minute and solved it at last. He gave it to the interviewers.

The interviewers looked at the cube and asked him which colour had he solved. He replied "Yellow". They then looked at him with wide-eyes. "Andy there are orange and green colours too in your solved side" the ma'am said.

He realized that due to his bad vision he had mistakenly assumed some orange tiles as yellow ones. After a few seconds he came up with another statement―

"Sir actually, I feel I should always do things differently. I wanna be unique as it is rightly said 'stand alone to stand apart.' So when you told me to solve one side, I didn't solve it, unlike any other candidate. Which makes me unique, and I believe it's better to go against the flow when the water is going into a gutter. I may be wrong, but atleast I will be different. So I solved the cube incorrectly." He said this although even he didn't know what he was saying... He just spoke whatever came to his mind.

"Andy what have you done... After saying such dumb reason you have dug your own grave. Rejection is confirmed now." He talked to himself.

The interviewers once again exchanged some expressions. At last they asked the table of seventeen to him.

As he knew he was going to be rejected and he knew he would mess up the numbers, he said "Sir I don't know the table of seventeen."

The interviewers looked at him in shock, then told him to wait outside as they wanted some time to decide whether to give him job or not.

He went outside in despair and was very angry on his luck.

After some time he heard a call from inside and went inside.

The madam said―
"Andy you have good field knowledge in addition to that you have great thoughts on gender equality and you do things differently. You are also honest and confident too. A perfect person for our job. Congratulations you're hired."

He had tears of joy after hearing this as he thought he had messed up things but got selected for messing up things.

After he reached home he thanked god for creating Friday the thirteenth. Which was the lucky unlucky day for him.

-RACHIT BAJPAI