Tired of his boasting, his
boss called his bluff,
"OK, Kuttappan how about Tom
Cruise?"
"Sure, yes, Tom and I are old
friends, and I can prove it."
So Kuttappan and his boss fly
out to Hollywood and knock on Tom Cruise's door, and sure enough, Tom Cruise
shouts, "Babu! Great to see you! You and your friend come right in and join me
for lunch!"
Although impressed,
Kuttappan's boss is still skeptical.
After they leave Cruise's
house, he tells Kuttappan that he thinks Kuttappan's knowing Cruise was just
lucky.
"No, no, just name anyone
else", Kuttappan says.
"President Bush," his boss
quickly retorts.
"Yes," Kuttappan says, "I
know him, let's fly out to Washington."
And off they go. At the White
House, Bush spots Kuttappan on the tour and motions him and his boss over,
saying, "Babu, what a surprise, I was just on my way to a meeting, but you and
your friend come on in and let's have a cup of coffee first and catch
up."
Well, the boss is very shaken
by now, but still not totally convinced.
After they leave the White
House grounds, he expresses his doubts to Kuttappan who again implores him to
name anyone else.
"The Pope," his boss
replies.
"Sure!" says Kuttappan. "I
have a lot of friends in Vatican, and I've known the Pope a long
time."
So off they fly to Rome.
Kuttappan and his boss are assembled with the masses in Vatican Square when
Kuttappan says, "This will never work. I can't catch the Pope's eye among all
these people. Tell you what, I will just go upstairs and I'll come out on the
balcony with the Pope.
So he disappears into the
crowd, headed toward the Vatican.
Sure enough, half an hour
later Kuttappan emerges with the Pope on the balcony. But by the time Kuttappan
returns, he finds that his boss has heart attack and is surrounded by
paramedics.
Working his way to his boss'
side, Kuttappan asks him, what happened?"
His boss looks up and says,
"I was doing fine until you and the Pope came out on the balcony and the man
next to me said, "Who's that on the balcony with Kuttappan?
Moral of the story- Don't
ever underestimate a malayalee again!
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