Sunday 15 November 2009

The continuing idyll of our yuppie

Our city bred yuppie has settled down into the village, mastered the art of managing without plumbing and has been proposed to. If you’ve missed this story of a couple of weeks ago, click here.

Statutory warning : This is a X rated post. Youngish readers and those with sensitive feelings please leave now !!

Of course the company has not put him here to bask in the adulation of the village belles. He’s supposed to do some work. Like organising a cattle camp.

My good friend Aashish, who comments often in this blog, observed that I seem to have a peculiar fascination for matters bovine – considering the number of times this venerable creature has appeared in what is ostensibly a business blog. I must confess that I hadn’t thought about it, and now that he has said it, am guilty as charged !

Now, in this part of the country, the buffalo is the family’s most prized possession. Therefore the cattle camp is the most important "village development” exercise that he can undertake. What our yuppie hasn’t realized as yet, is that the cattle camp is also the most blatant sex show on earth !!

There are only two objectives in a cattle camp. To castrate the bulls and impregnate the cows. Our yuppie is to participate whole heartedly in the process ; he realises belatedly that his ratings depend on his performance in this orgy, although of a different kind !

The bulls are being led away to one side of the camp. They are lined up one by one to be emasculated. One randy specimen has broken away – he charges vigorously to the cows shepherded on the other side, for the one last fling of his life. He’s promptly caught and brought back, only to be pushed to the head of the assembly line. The logic of this exercise is that bulls, when not motivated to oogle at a shapely cow, will instead work harder. Now, I wonder how come Hitler, Stalin, and the lot, did not consider this angle, when it came to the human race. Although, it must be said that right through history, many kings seems to have grasped this wisdom. Our yuppie’s face is beet red. He has “performed” , at best, an average job. There’s much tongue clicking amongst the wise and the elderly on city bred types who can’t even do a simple job properly.

The scene at the cows end is even more interesting. Humans have decided that its much better to impregnate cows artificially than allow matters to progress naturally; a curious logic considering the number of able bodied bulls at the other end of the field. On one hand you castrate eager bulls who are all too ready to do the job for free. On the other hand, you procure the elixir of life from an unknown stud, of mythical qualities, transport it in liquid nitrogen (global warming and all that), at the cost of an arm and a leg. Whoever said that there was native common sense in the villages ?

The process begins with determining which of the cows are “ready”. I shall pass lightly over this process in order not to offend readers’ sensibilities – suffice to say that the process involves shoving a whole arm up you know what, an act our yuppie is flatly refusing to do; job rating or no rating. The cow’s owner is looking on anxiously. If the verdict is a no, he has come in vain. If the verdict is a yes, he seems to experience the state of heightened euphoria, which is more usually associated with the performer in matters amatory.

The “no” cows have melted away. The “yes” cows are then helped along in their ostensible purpose in life – to bear calves and produce copious quantities of milk. Would our yuppie, at least participate in this – having baulked at the previous step in the process which has resulted in extreme hilarity amongst the onlookers. Knowing that his job is on the line, and with a face akin to an overripe tomato, our yuppie fetches the straws from the liquid nitrogen container and assists in the creation of life !

Evalauation time. The young man is given a C. He has avoided getting fired from his job. In the process , he has brought much merriment to the village folk and has added to the repertoire of folk tales in the village. Fair deal. But he is rather quiet these days.

16 comments:

A journey called Life said...

haha.. had a good laugh reading this.. im thinking there is a part 2 and a part 3, considering the abrupt end of the post..

Anonymous said...

LOL!!Hee hee at the young yuppie! :) After all this embarrassment, only a C that too - poor fellow!

But I am sure there is one other creature that will be more embarrassed than the yuppie - the cows! Imagine their plight - how the hell did I get pregnant?! :D LOL!!

Good Sunday post and eagerly awaiting the next Sunday for the "what happens next!" :D

Savitha said...

LOL!!:D

Durga said...

LOL! I'm surprised our yuppie got a C!!!

Ramesh said...

@AJCL - Cows have to absent from the next 100 posts if I have yo escape the ribbing from aashish !!

@thoughtful train - Hee hee , it would be interesting to speculate what the cow thought of all this :)

@Savitha - :-)

@Durga - Considering that if he got a D he would be fired, he did OK :)

Sandhya Sriram said...

consequence of ignoring the statutory warning - going a lil red to give company to our yuppie.
Since its an X rated post, now i am putting this comment along the same lines.

An unforgettable childhood memory is when in class VII, we were being thought about the subject process in our science classes. me and my friend gowri were at total loss on how the interface happens. Starting from our parents, teachers and even our seniors, we went and asked many and could see many faces turning absolutely red. it was really later did we realize why.

i think this was kind of a personal joke on which i smile back many times even today, but guess, one more inhibition i have broken today by expressing it public, thanks to my amazing inspiration again !!

Ramesh said...

@Sandhya - We've all done something very similar to you and Gowri. And it always brings back a smile, with perhaps just a tinge of red !!

Unknown said...

LOL!! My "mother earth, please swallow me now" moment was having to do a session on family planning for all the village women. They had a great time grilling me especially after they heard that I wasnt married at that time :D

sri said...

I didnot read after the viewer's discretion :(

sri said...

businessman turned village story writer, something happening at ur home/work to u ? ;) on the other had how poor those creatures are!=(

Deepa said...

Hahaha... rib-tickling! But I am a little curious as to who the real life inspiration for this story is! :)

And yes, you've reminded me of Dr. James Herriot...My dear books here I come!!

Ramesh said...

@J - Ha Ha - that would have been an interesting experience, I'm sure !

@Sri - I know you're a young strapping lad, but I didn't know you are young enough to be excluded by a X rating :)

@Deepa - I'm curious too :):)

Unknown said...

This post was beyond hilarious Ramesh, and I'm still rolling on the floor! Please do not stop the bullsxxt posts (pun intended :-). In fact, you should run a Corporate Animal-farm series - starting with Monkeys (and peanuts).

Ramesh said...

@Aashish - Much tickled by the idea !!

Reflections said...

I may have laughed but cdnt help this feeling of sympathy for our yuppie.....
I myself still cant get over 2 memories...one of watching a woman standing behind a cow and catching the urine and cleansing her face with it[I sure hope she was not drinking it]. I was on my way to school on my cycle when I saw this scene....its a wonder I hadnt fallen off.
Another was when my grandfather put his hand in upto the shoulder when the cow was experiencing birth difficulties. I think he was trying to turn the calf or something like tht.

So who is this yuppie?????

Ramesh said...

@Reflections Oh interesting tidbits.

The yuppie is a mythical creature but modelled after the hundreds of trainees in this company who have been through this "rural education".

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