The tube light kind of reaction

         The other evening Victor charged into his house blowing fire and smoke while his wife stood wondering what had happened to him.   Meantime, Victor the husband was  splashing curses at himself, “How stupid of me … How stupid…”

            “Why?  What happened?” wifey asked somewhat agitated.

            “You see, I should have told my Desk officer,  ‘To go to hell  by the next train’ but instead I had said, ‘I am sorry, sir’.  How idiotic of me ….? And for all this, I had  committed no mistake of any kind.  Nothing very serious, I mean?”

             “Oh, your office affair?” Jane   remarked dejectedly, went into the kitchen, prepared a hot cup of coffee and brought it to her husband to cool off his temper.

              Victor  became calm  and collected  after a couple of hours.  He  was no exception either.  Most of us experience such delayed wisdom in our day to day life of what should have been said or done  or not done on some past events.

               After a football or hockey  match, you could hear the losing  team  players say, “I shouldn’t have kicked the ball so hard”  “I should have attempted the goal myself instead of passing it to the left winger.”  “I should not have spoken so harshly with the referee…”

                A horrified mother would castigate her husband saying, “You should have been more strict with your daughter in her teen age days.  See, what shame she has brought on the family by marrying that good-for-nothing fellow without our knowledge…”