Webmaster: Good Morning, Santa?

Santa: The morning is always good; it is only morons like you who make it bad!

Webmaster: Spare me Sir, but what misdeed have I committed to irk you?

Santa: As if your very existence is not a mistake you think of committing some more!

Webmaster: Oh! Oh! I better go silent.

Santa: Then what the hell did you call me here for?

Webmaster: To have a chit-chat, know your well being as well as of others.

Santa: All is not well. Look at the so-called cricketing giants being downed by Lilliputians, Bob Woolmer’s death, inflation in India, no let up in George Bush’s lunatic behaviour—everything seems to be going topsy-turvy.

Webmaster: But you deserve Congratulations, Santa, on having killed two birds in one stone. SantaBanta.com Women’s Car Rally and North Colours Vintage and Classic Car Rally were successfully organised simultaneously on March 11th.

Santa: Oh! Don’t remind me of that horrifying day. My car that old black one, 69 model Fiat didn’t move beyond Kalka. The fuel dripped on the way and I had to push it for a kilometre and a half with Preeto at the wheel.

Webmaster: That means you couldn’t finish the race.

Santa: We were out of the contest at the start itself. You see, I couldn’t risk Jeeto with my car in the Women’s Car Rally and that’s why I suggested this jalopy to be taken out of garage that day and I became a victim of my own making.

Webmaster: By the way how is it that you own such a car?

Santa: It was gifted to us by Jeeto’s father for our wedding.

Webmaster: Oh! Dowry! You preach day in and day out against dowry while you accepted such a lavish gift for your marriage in those times.

Santa: No, it was not dowry. It was a wedding gift given to us by the old man out of his sweet wish.

Webmaster: Santa, most of such things are done out of sweet wishes but they serve to propagate a bitter evil. It is a condemnable thing that you accepted dowry.

Santa: If you say so, but then don’t tell me you are giving another reason to not like you.

Webmaster: Hardly matters, Santa. As long as I find something bad I will say it. You know I am dead against dowry and I will remain so.

Santa: This rally has really brought some skeletons out of my cupboard. The useless piece of steel earned me so much humiliation that day Santa and it is earning me disrepute even today. Wait and see I will send it to a kabariwala right now.

Webmaster: No need of that Santa. Just put an ad in the paper you will find many takers for it. North Colours Vintage and Classic Car Rally has really increased the craze for old cars in Chandigarh.

Santa: Let us see if I can strike a good bargain. And, there are couple of other things in the house that can be disposed off too, especially Jeeto. I will make it a combo offer. Whosoever buys the car gets the old hag for free.