Knock! Knock! "Who's that?" "It's me. Let's go for lunch" "Okay. Just a min..." Ani emerged out of his room quite reluctantly. Getting interrupted while watching a movie is one of the primary things that he hates in this whole wide world. "Why so early?", he said. "It's 1:15pm, man. The mess closes in about 15 minutes. Come fast..." "Wait, I shall call Chacha." "Okay. You call him and I shall call Kc." I went and called Kc. He was singing, "I like to move it, move it... I like to move it, move it..." "Ya we are gonna move, man - to the mess...", I reminded him.
So, me, Kc, Ani and Chacha marched to the mess at full speed, because it was about 1:25 when we started from our wing. There was that usual queue of about 20 to 30 people in the mess that was overflowing with BITSian junta who had just returned from classes. "Ya, great... My appetite's gone", I said.
Slowly, we managed to crawl through the hustling horde of students and got a plate. A mess worker served us the usual and boring dal and vegetable. I went lazily and peeped inside the hotpack to see a few burnt chapatis stuck at the bottom of it. I pulled one out of it. I took a cup of curd too.
We settled down at the last table in the mess hall and started tearing off bits of the so-called chapatis and eating. Chacha was lost in thoughts. He was processing something in his mind, surely upto something.
It was quite a hot day too. So, jugs and jugs of water were being consumed in the mess. Kc drank some from the jug which was there on our table and upon Chacha's request, passed it on to him. By this time Chacha was definitely upto something fishy.
He suddenly told Ani, "Take the jug of water and drink from it." Ani didn't trust Chacha in any manner that time. So, he refused to do so. "Arey, what is there in just drinking water from the jug, man?", smirked Chacha. I too found nothing wrong in it. "No, i won't", repeated Ani. He conveyed something to Kc secretly in his ears. And then Kc too smirked. Then Chacha turned towards me and asked, "Please, drink some water from the jug." I too had my doubts this time. Why on earth would he so dearly want us to drink water from the jug, given the fact that there was limited water inside it and it was closing time for the mess, due to which it is difficult to get one more jug of cold water?
I told Ani, "You can trust Chacha second to none" and drank water from the jug. Then, Chacha gave a bright smile. Now, I seriously felt that it is some sort of a prank I have fallen for. So, if I have got to be the clown, why should I be the only one to be so? I assuringly told Ani, "See, nothing happened to me. It is perfectly safe." So, he finally drank from it.
"Now, I shall tell you the results of my survey", told Chacha. Results! Survey! What the hell was going on around? "Basically, I conducted a small survey to rate the four of us starting from the strongest to the weakest, by means of observing the way they lift the water jug and drink water from it. Apparently, Kc turns out to be the strongest as he lifted the jug by its neck with a single and used a single hand while drinking water too. I turn out to be the second strongest amongst the four of us though I held the jug and drank water from using only one hand, I did with relative difficulty. Ani is the third strongest as he lifted the jug with one hand, but gave some support at the bottom of the jug while drinking water from it..."
I didn't want to hear the name of the weakest person, as it became obvious that it's me! I took my time, lifted the jug with both hands comfortably and drank from it...!!!
So, me, Kc, Ani and Chacha marched to the mess at full speed, because it was about 1:25 when we started from our wing. There was that usual queue of about 20 to 30 people in the mess that was overflowing with BITSian junta who had just returned from classes. "Ya, great... My appetite's gone", I said.
Slowly, we managed to crawl through the hustling horde of students and got a plate. A mess worker served us the usual and boring dal and vegetable. I went lazily and peeped inside the hotpack to see a few burnt chapatis stuck at the bottom of it. I pulled one out of it. I took a cup of curd too.
We settled down at the last table in the mess hall and started tearing off bits of the so-called chapatis and eating. Chacha was lost in thoughts. He was processing something in his mind, surely upto something.
It was quite a hot day too. So, jugs and jugs of water were being consumed in the mess. Kc drank some from the jug which was there on our table and upon Chacha's request, passed it on to him. By this time Chacha was definitely upto something fishy.
He suddenly told Ani, "Take the jug of water and drink from it." Ani didn't trust Chacha in any manner that time. So, he refused to do so. "Arey, what is there in just drinking water from the jug, man?", smirked Chacha. I too found nothing wrong in it. "No, i won't", repeated Ani. He conveyed something to Kc secretly in his ears. And then Kc too smirked. Then Chacha turned towards me and asked, "Please, drink some water from the jug." I too had my doubts this time. Why on earth would he so dearly want us to drink water from the jug, given the fact that there was limited water inside it and it was closing time for the mess, due to which it is difficult to get one more jug of cold water?
I told Ani, "You can trust Chacha second to none" and drank water from the jug. Then, Chacha gave a bright smile. Now, I seriously felt that it is some sort of a prank I have fallen for. So, if I have got to be the clown, why should I be the only one to be so? I assuringly told Ani, "See, nothing happened to me. It is perfectly safe." So, he finally drank from it.
"Now, I shall tell you the results of my survey", told Chacha. Results! Survey! What the hell was going on around? "Basically, I conducted a small survey to rate the four of us starting from the strongest to the weakest, by means of observing the way they lift the water jug and drink water from it. Apparently, Kc turns out to be the strongest as he lifted the jug by its neck with a single and used a single hand while drinking water too. I turn out to be the second strongest amongst the four of us though I held the jug and drank water from using only one hand, I did with relative difficulty. Ani is the third strongest as he lifted the jug with one hand, but gave some support at the bottom of the jug while drinking water from it..."
I didn't want to hear the name of the weakest person, as it became obvious that it's me! I took my time, lifted the jug with both hands comfortably and drank from it...!!!
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