Trouser hunt

Few months ago, I had to attend a conference in a different city. The day before the travel, I had given my suite to our friendly neighborhood 'istry' (ironing) shop. Though the urgency was explained, the ironing folks somehow delivered the jacket but forgot to return the trouser. I returned from work around 8:15 PM and we began enquiring the whereabouts of the ironing folks. None of the shops around had his address nor his contact number. We almost gave up, but a chance meeting with my dentist's assistant gave some hopes. The dentist operates out of the same building and some how his assistant knew where the istry person's house. She sent her son with us and we landed up in the narrow bylanes of the near by locality. We knocked on the door and found a different person living there, the istry person had moved to a new place near by!. The neighbors gave us the directions and the landmark where to look. We again began searching in the near by community. Soon, we 'discovered' at least 5-6 people who lived/operated in that area and none of them had any clue about our guy. Finally after asking some people around, we finally found our guy, who was kind enough to travel 2 kms and hand over my trouser. Though it was an annoying experience in the beginning, it turned out to be an interesting hunt. Not to mention we caught the attention of numerous onlookers in the local community, some of them came up to ask if we are from Police or some investigating agency :)