“…
Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
When you think everything’s okay and everything’s going right
And life has a funny way of helping you out when
You think everything’s gone wrong and everything blows up
In your face…
” — Lyrics of Alanis Morissette’s – Ironic
That in short is the story of our August 15th weekend…
The August 15th weekend was a long weekend, we had been completely booked almost a month and a half ago!! After that we spent a lot of time taking bookings for Nelgi and all the other places that we could send people to, and after that we spend an equally large amount of time telling people that we could not help them…. and come the weekend…all the places where we sent folks were full…but we ran barely half full…
The previous weekend …the ‘Hari’ weekend was the week when we had the tropical cyclone over India.. this had wrecked havoc with the homestay..we realized that we were in a very poor shape to take in people, at least we will not be able to keep the standards of service that we are used to providing…so we had decided that we would cancel all bookings that we had refund the money or optionally offer them another date. We had Saket who we asked to cancel and he obliged, and Rahoul..who insisted that he would come!!!
We were really caught in a piquant situation…here was a guest who wanted to come even after hearing what state we were in.. What do we do!.. After a lot of discussion we decided lets leave it to Rahoul, we will give him an absolutely clear picture of the state we are in..and thereafter it is his call.. As things turned out, Rahoul said he will come no matter what and so we would have some guests on the long weekend if not a full house.
All these discussion were happening in the seven days between August 7th and August 15th, as the week progressed the rains virtually stopped..and all of a sudden it became a perfect day in Coorg..and we were left with cancellations and empty cottages..while all our other homestays to whom we sent people were running full
“…
Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
When you think everything’s okay and everything’s going right
And life has a funny way of helping you out when
You think everything’s gone wrong and everything blows up
In your face…
“
Ironic isn’t it …
