One thing I always dread is using a fork for eating food . I am simply flummoxed as to how someone can eat a cabbage leaves salad with a fork withot even leaving a trace of it. As with everyone, there comes a day in life when yo have to face your demons . As it turns out in my case the demons I was going to dine with were fully equipped modern age meticulate British people . I need not write about their skills with fork and knife . They can eat any matter on this earth with fork and knife.
We settled in a bar for an evening meal. I had no clue as to what English food should I order let alone using a fork which is the next process . I wanted to Jump into the river near the bar and end my miserable life for not being attentive in the sessions conducted by our organization for these kind of interactions with clients. Anyways there was no going back I had to order something . I never knew this dinner was going to be an implementation of the adage "When in Rome do as the romans do" . So I decided that I will just follow my British colleague sitting beside me .He ordered Fish and Chips , so did I. Everybody was having a typical dinner time timepass conversation and I could not properly participate because of fork and knife ghosts hauntig me.
Till my order was served I decided to observe people sitting on other tables. One pretty girl was sitting with her boyfriend or husband(or whoever it does not concern me ). For some time I forgot about the dinner and concentrated on her. She was beautiful !!!! . Coming back to the dinner . When Fish and chips were served , to my horror it also had peas and lots of them. I mean how do you eat peas with a fork , Its like programming GUI in assembly language . But the way my collegues were having peas with a fork , it seemed like he was born with a flair of eating peas with a fork. So finally I started off , using fork as a spoon to eat peas and having rest of the food as my colleague did . Except 2-3 peas falling here and there there was no major mishap from my side . I finished my meal late by 5 minutes due my inexperience with knife and fork . Although these incidents did not go unnoticed by the keen eyes of my meticulate British colleagues , who cares I was 90% successful .
