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After failing to overcome his habit of flashing his office access card in front of every door he comes across, Python Nagaraju, a Bengaluru-based techie recently installed an access card reader on all doors in his residence.
“Yes, it’s true. I just finished setting up an access card based system on all the doors at home yesterday. It feels so good now, to no longer have my family members laugh at me when I flash my access card at my bathroom door or bedroom door by sheer force of habit. Going forward, I’ll extend this card access mechanism to every appliance at home – the TV, fridge, AC, shower and what not. That’s the only way to cure my extreme attachment to my access card. I can even get rid of all my clothes, but never my access card,” Nagaraju told The UnReal Times.
Nagaraju explained that he had, in the past, tried to force himself into not flashing his access card, but in vain. “It wasn’t as if I hadn’t consciously tried to cure it. I did. Several times. It did work for a while. I would freely open doors and make my way through them, but the habit soon caught on at work too. One day I tried to forcibly push through a door there without flashing my access card and it broke. An alarm was raised and I was fined a hefty percentage of my monthly salary for that month. So installing the same system at home was the only solution. And that’s precisely what I’ve done,” Nagaraju added.
Nagaraju’s family, however, expressed that this was just one among his many eccentricities. “Ever since he became a staunch techie, he has been doing many unusual things. If you think that installing access cards at home is bizarre, I wonder what will you say if I tell you that he hands over Sodexho coupons to beggars who knock on his car window!” Nagaraju’s father told The UnReal Times.