Said and diet 

By Mohsin al-Saffar 

 when Saeed went to one of the government departments to complete some needed work, he was expecting that the whole process takes a period of no more than half an hour because of its simplicity, in the reception an  officer led him to the concerned section which is located on the sixth floor and as the  answer to his question of where the elevator was? the employee told him that the elevator is disabled since 6 months for lack of a budget to do the maintenance works !! Saeed ascended the stairs to the sixth floor, cursing   the person who invented high buildings without considering the budget of state institutions non capable of payment for maintenance charges  for the elevators , after he reached the sixth floor, with his heart beating with a sound , higher than drum in a wedding, he entered the floor and asked the first officer he met about the section , the man  carelessly answered that this section a few days ago moved to the second floor and there was no time to notify  the Information Section of this transformation . 

Saeed, went down again with anger on his face until he reached the second floor and entered the office where a Fat Girl carrying a half a meter long sandwich in one hand and in the other hand, a book entitled How to get a slim body without diet? Saeed smiled on this situation, as the thought that this book in the case of this girl is closer to science fiction books!! He asked her about his request and she replied with her mouth full with: 

- Wait until I finish I am a human being and  not octopus with 8 hands ! 

Saeed's looked at her, and thought,  surely you are not  octopus  You are closer to the whale, but he smiled and said: 

- Until you finish reading the book, or eating the sandwich? 

 The employee put the sandwich on the table angrily and said to Saeed: 

- I want the records of this request from the archives, go to the sixth floor as the Archive  is still there!

saeed went crazy after this talk, and angrily said to the girl: 

- why do you move the sections in installments and not one time? By Allah, my heart will not take to climb there again, but I have an idea, why do not you go up and bring the records and you will be able to lose weight without diet and no need for this book? Is it not a great idea? 

The result of great idea was that his request has been   delayed for a full month to complete the transfer of the archive to the second floor and the girl refused all his begging and apologizes.

While he was on his way to the exit, the Director of the department came down of his Mercedes luxury car and walked into his office on the first floor, saeed laughed and said to the reception guy: 

- it is clear that you really suffer from a deficit in the budget, but if the office of the Director was on the seventh floor , you would have elevator and from Mercedes  brand as well!!