Dedicated to a friend..

This post is dedicated to a great friend of mine, whom I respect for his sincerity and openness (and biting but unintentional remarks ;) ) Following are some incidents that show this guy's spontaneous wit. Actually, I had drafted this post long time ago. Somehow, I forgot to publish it.

Scene 1: Engineering examination room. Its a mid-term exam, so nobody is that serious. Teacher distributes answer sheets and a person seating in front of Siddhesh, looks at his answer sheet and because he got an answer sheet with fewer pages or something, he starts whining "I got a small answer sheeeeeeet". Siddhesh quickly replies: Tula Granth naahi lihayacha aahe.. (You don't have to write a storybook). Everybody cracks up, including the whining guy :)

Scene 2: We are lazying around in our Engineering lab, pretending to be working on some programming assignment during lab hours. A girl from our class, leaves her seat for a while. As usual, somebody quickly steals her chair. When this girl returns, she is little annoyed, and gets suspicious about the guy seating next to her (who was standing earlier). She tries to push him out of his chair. This grabs Siddhesh's attention, and he quips: Arey, Deun taak tila khurchi, nahitar ti tula khurchisakat khali fekun deil. (Hey, Give the chair back! Otherwise, she will throw you and the chair, both out of that window!). Now everybody is laughing and the girl is embarrased :)


Scene 3: A usual boring Engineering class and the attendance sheet is showing more than the actual number of students present in the class. One girl is taking little longer to sign her (?) attendance. Siddhesh is patiently waiting for the attendance sheet (he neither did this kind of 'social work', nor complained about it). Now this girl starts chatting with her friend, totally forgetting that she has the attendance sheet (and that Siddhesh is seating behind her :) ). There goes Siddhesh's fuse. He speaks up in slow but firm voice: Aga, dey ti sheet ikde, tichi puja kartes kay? (Hey, please pass on that sheet, are you worshiping it or what? ). Even in that soporific lecture, everybody starts chuckling :)

I hope you take all this in good humor, Siddhesh. I know you will.. :) Also, best luck to you on starting your MBA course at NITIE, Mumbai.