Chapter 267

He was on his way home after an interesting evening at his friend’s house. His wife had wanted to throw a surprise birthday party in the event of him turning thirty five. It had been a relatively small event, just five families including friends and family. Patrick was one of the oldest among his friends and Akshar had known him for almost eight years now. He had met Patrick when he was on his way back from work. Patrick had bumped into Akshar's car and it was a minor scratch. He had suggested that he take care of it right away and avoid the cops. As it had been a minor incident and things had gone smoothly. When Patrick had received the bill for the fixes the amount was about two hundred dollars more and it claimed that all those issues were fixed on the car. Patrick had been furious and had called Akshar to enquire about it. Akshar had also requested a receipt of the work that had been done and that was about two hundred dollars.

After talking to each other both had realized that something was going on and had decided to go over to the garage and find out the truth. Akshar had insisted that he join Patrick as they had tried to cheat him too. Patrick had arrived an hour earlier and his questions were not answered but were totally rerouted. What had been surprising to those guys were that they were trying to pin all the work done on Akshar, but when he had showed up they were completely baffled. After a sit down with the manager and with Akshar doing all the talking, finally it was confirmed that there had been some mistake and everything was cleared out. Patrick had been extremely impressed and from then on they had become friends.

Today, more than the fact that it was a nice homely event with him turning thirty five, his wife's sister, Elizabeth or shortly Liz had made the day very interesting. After they had finished their dinner and the cake the topics that they were discussing had been very interesting and had kept the day going. The topics started in real estate as one of the couple who were there were interested in buying a house in the nearby area and had moved on to local county maintenance and school districts and education and in the end he was not sure how had ended in the topic that "Men are from mars and Women are from Venus".