Tuesday, September 15, 2009

A true gentleman

Having being invited by a Finnish gentleman to visit his "summer house", we were all looking forward to the visit and the whole experience (atleast I was) :) Boating, fishing, swimming, sauna, dinner..the set of options he provided, to keep us engaged, seemed like a 'universal' set. How could I turn down a tempting offer like this?

So, after work, we all got in his FR-V Honda. He brought his 10yr old son along. An adorable kid! He later told us, that his son had requested to join in so he could talk to us in English and improve his vocabulary.

What was amazing to see was..He shared his son's excitement and sense of achievement. (1)

While boating, I witnessed another of his gentlemanly nature. Every time his son fell short of words, he helped him out, at no point losing interest or patience. (2)

Also, the way he described his family, esp. his younger daughter was touching. How they spend their holidays, what each one likes to do, etc etc? (3)

During one of those casual conversations that we had, he accidentally interrupted his son twice..On realizing his mistake (if you can call it one), he placed his hand on his son's head and said.. "Forgive me son, I have been interrupting you..Anteeksi" (4)

Later, while dropping us back home, he took permission to drop his son home first, as it was time for him to sleep. (5)

And he dropped each of us right in front of our gates. (6)

Can he be any more gentlemanly? I doubt anyone can!!!

3 comments:

Souffle ! said...

nice one :)
you should have helped his kid with some kannada and symbian as well

Amateur Expert said...

You know what, he was teaching us fishing.. cool kid huh? :)

Unknown said...

Nice one :-) Thats wat u call a true getleman.Too good.Ppl are really good here :-)