THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING CLAW

 This incident happened in Nov last year but is certainly worth mentioning for the smile it brings every time i think of  it.

I was in my 1st year of MBA and a part of the National HRD seminar team formed in the college for some days.I hardly attended any classes for almost a month. Instead, around 20 of us who were selected from the whole college for the seminar co-ordination used to sit in cubicles assigned to us in the faculty room and make calls inviting the Head HR's of various companies for the seminar.

     During one such day ,my friend Yamini and i came early to our temporary office and decided to stand out and talk for sometime before starting our work. Suddenly our eyes fell on a huge owl perched happily on a window on the floor below ours. Frankly , i had never seen an owl from such a close distance  and decided to take some pictures.Just then our other friends also came there and got excited seeing the owl.Since it was daytime we knew it was asleep and would not fly away and clicked pics from various angles.

      Suddenly my eyes fell on its claw and i observed something. I told Yamini too and even she was surprised. Yes.... in an excitement of ours , we  had not seen the bird carefully. It just had one claw. 'Was it injured '? ' Did it have only one claw', we kept asking each other and the others around us. Alas, none of us could figure out the reason. We decided to go inside for sometime.I just wasn't able to concentrate on my work and decided to check again. I could still see only one claw. Disappointed i came inside and told Yamini. We decided to take up the matter seriously and called up the Blue cross society. After talking to about 10 people ,we finally got to explain the situation to the right person. He listened very patiently  but started laughing afterwards. For a moment i was surprised and also angry on the man. This is what he said after sometime:

 ' Madam ,you don't need to worry at all. The owl while sleeping sits only on one claw.  This is its posture. Just like we have ours, it has its own. Don't bother, it will fly away in the evening.'

  

The Mysterious Owl

Saying this he hung up.I immediately told my friend about this. She  had been anxiously waiting for the conversation to end. We both looked at each other and started laughing loudly. Our other friends joined in too and the office now looked nothing less than a  laughing club.

Even when i am blogging about this incident now,i can't stop myself from laughing.

I have always believed that 'Experiential learning ' is the best learning .We had  indeed learnt a unique feature about  the owl from this  incident.
So...always remember......'An Owl rests only on one claw while sleeping'.

The One claw finders