Girl Friend or Fiancée

Every now and then, it so happens that I bump into guys who are like just about to get married.

And so, with a lot of curiosity I ask how did the guy make it to his marriage and I ask if the guy's going to marry his love.
Me : "Is she your girl friend ?"
Most Common Response from those guys, comes as this :
"aam .. hmm .. well you can say that ! "
Me : What does that mean, I can say that. What do you say then?
Guy: (pretty embarrassed) It's like the arranged marriage thing.
Me: Oh, I see. So the one, who you talk over the phone is your fiancée ..
Guy: Well, you can say that.

One of those things which went wrong

Back in those days while I was in school, I had a very good image of being a good, hardworking chap among my teachers. (Don't know exactly how I earned it). Every now and then, when a teacher wants to find a role model for my classmates, I was always there to make my buddies go mad at me.
This one day, one of our school teachers was pretty lazy to take class and so decided to put up a reading session for all of us. I started to sleep with my eyes open just as I used to do each day in school.
Everyone was busy doing some chit-chat and the guy called principal comes to check up if teachers are doing their job properly. And this particular teacher, just to impress her boss started asking everyone questions about the subject. She was making guys to stand up on the bench , whoever doesn't answer her questions (for those who don't know, standing up on bench was considered as a punishment and students feel pretty ashamed of it).

I had a good reputation at not being asked questions. This was due to the confidence they had on me that I would eventually answer it (I really don't know how I managed this one. May be I was never asked a question. And this good boy image might have added some value in this aspect too. I loved my school for this). This teacher looked at me while I was staring at the book (I was in deep sleep) and she said to everyone
"Look at this guy, look at how deeply focussed he is, on learning something. Try to follow him in this aspect !!"
I suddenly woke up realising that something good was being said about me. I looked around the guys who were standing and felt pretty proud of myself that my antics (you know, this image thing that I made up) worked out.
One of the guys became pretty furious with the unfair treatment he got, he raised his voice. He asked the teacher to ask me a question too. She was a bit reluctant. Notwithstanding the pressure from other guys too, she finally asked me a question.
The question she asked, was pretty easy and everyone else standing might have answered that one.
I didn't.

Desperate Me!!

While I was studying Intermediate(or +1 / +2), I was pretty amused by this girl called 'Santa'. I wanted to strike a conversation with her somehow. But I lacked the guts to just go and talk to her. So I became friends with this guy called 'Suzee', who was a very good friend of Santa.
I talked to Suzee about my crush on her and asked him to introduce me. Suzee understood my plight and said he will introduce me to her. But that cannot happen in college. Because my college is pretty clumpsy place. So he came up with an idea, that he will talk to her about me and give me her phone number.
He asked me to call her up at exactly 7PM. By that time, he would have told her about me, so that I can catch up a conversation with her, right away on the phone.
That's pretty cool. But something was fishy in the plan. I never really cared about the fishy part and focused a bit too much on how and what should I talk to Santa.

I was pretty scared to call up, in spite of all of the assurance Suzee gave me. I called her up, though I was trembling with fear.

Santa: Hello
Me: Hello, Hi , ... hmm..
Santa: Yeah, who's this ?
Me: Hey, It's me !!
Santa: Sorry , I didn't recognize you. Could you please tell me who this is ?
Me: Didn't Suzee tell you ?
Santa: Suzee ?? What did Suzee had to tell me ?
Me: I am Sunny.
Santa: Sunny ??!!!!@! Sunny who ??
Me: Aaam .. Hmm.. !!! Suzee , didn't he call you ?
Santa: No. But who are you ?
Me: (As if I was in a speed reading competition) I am your classmate, I sit right behind you. You must have seen me with Suzee.
Santa: No.
Me: okay. (I wanted to say to say sorry, but I said) Thanks!!!
I really did not have any idea why I said that.

She hung up the phone.

I never spoke to her again. Neither did I catch up with Suzee after my college.

'Luna'tic Bus Driver

It was my friend's marriage in Pune. All of the gang started off a bit early and reached pune from bangalore / hyderabad. As I live in Mumbai, it is reasonable for everyone to expect that I can be late (you know).

So I started from Mumbai, thinking that it's going be just 3 hours. So I can chill and all. But when the bus started, it went in such a pace that it never seemed like it's going to make it. The Money mongering bus fella, stopped even when a buddy on road raised his hand just to scratch his head.
I'm sure, you would think that the bus must have been some non A/C or an RTC bus.
If that's the case, I'm sorry to disappoint you it's a Volvo bus.

All of the friends who have reached Pune, started calling me up thinking that I should be the one who must reach first. Silly Friends.
One of the guys, who is pretty excited about his new learnt Marathi catch words,
called me up and said, " Kuthe (कुठे) * ??"

As I am pretty good at Marathi (you know), I thought the guy called me "Kutthe" (कुत्ते , the Dharmendar vala word) as I couldn't make it on time. I was relieved that I could somehow reach Pune. And the guy at pune says, "Within this time, you could even come on a Luna** to Poona !!!"

True to the core.



* कुठे -- something like where or where are you (in Marathi)
** Luna -- Click on it.

Try Humans !!!

Last night we (my colleague and I) were trying to catch a rickshaw (or auto rickshaw) near Oberoi Mall at Goregoan. We couldn't catch one , because rickshaw wallas in Mumbai try to balance between work and life all too well. One can never catch a rickshaw so comfortably, late in the night not just because they aren't available, but because they just wish not to come anywhere.

Obviously we were pretty upset , that we had to work on Saturday and couldn't even find a rickshaw back to the room. We had noticed that we were not the only ones who were upset about the rickshaw wallas , we had company. One elderly woman, was trying even harder to find a rickshaw as she had a lot of carry bags in her hands. She saw us, walked toward us and started a conversation.

Aunty: These rickshaw wallas are a bit too much into luxury.
Me : Yeah.
Aunty: Where are you guys going ?
Me: Malad.
Aunty: Me too. Why don't we catch a rickshaw together .. you might get one on sympathy grounds .. old lady sometimes comes handy .. what say ??
Me: okay

We could finally catch one.
All three of us while sitting in the rickshaw, we were pretty silent initially. Someone had to say something, the elderly woman started it.

Aunty: We are going to get in trouble from tomorrow. There'll be a massive loss of property and life.
Colleague : Why , what's gonna happen.
Aunty: There'll be rains. And like a lot.
Colleague: It doesn't really seem like that.
Aunty: Officials at the rains department have told it.
Collegue: Oh , chill Aunty. In this case you don't have to worry at all. They are never going to come true.

Aunty got pretty furious and said ,
"No. They are right. Remember 26th July. It's going to be the same , this time too. Be prepared. This will be hell unleashed."

Colleague: If that was the case, so be it. How can we stop all of that ?

Aunty got pretty satisfied that someone is in some agreement at last.
Aunty: Only if God wishes, we couldn't all survive.
Colleague: True.
Aunty: Look at this stuff.
And she showed those carry bags. I , initially , thought that they might have had some grocery stuff .

Aunty: I take this food to do some charity.
Colleague: Oh , impressive. You seem like a lady with a big heart.

Aunty: (Blushing) I do my part. You know how much it costs me, to do all this each day .
Colleague: Oh, darn. You do that every day??
Aunty: I do it every day. I gives me immense pleasure to give away all this food. Once I go home, I just distribute all of these stuff to dogs.

Me: Excuse me .. did you just say DOGS ??
Aunty: Yes. I feed all this stuff to dogs.