How often do we find a lucky coin on the road which we pick up and keep as a keepsake? For a few lukcy ones it's a whole note. Mine was never more thana a single rupee until one day. I am talking about this incident in my twelfth standard school days when me and a couple of my friends bagged ourselves this absolutely free (!) treat of ice creams! I won't get straight to the topic, I would beat around the bush for a while, so hang on!
Now my twelfth standard wasn't very good (if you're wondering what's it got to do with the topic, give me some time, like I warned you, am getting there!), neither was eleventh, but then I was at least my own brat-tish self. But the twelfth in all it's gory self was tortuous and tuitions and coaching classes took a large chunk of time off our life which we would have otherwise spent fooling around/bunking classes/checking out guys :) Add to that the plight that after a life long stint at a co-ed I was landed up at this god forsaken girl's convent which was run by sisters who quite prided themselves as being second only to Hitler when it came to cruelty.
You get the idea now don't you?

So in comes this school day when we 'Super Seniors' are given the royal treatment before being finally chucked out.We don't have to be in any one of those disgusting awfully boring plays (heck we couldn't act in them, how did the audience watch it!), didn't have to bray shamelessly in those chorus songs, and definitely no MC-ing! We can sit in our abode (which was behind this rope barrier, lest the 'boys' from outside must try and pick up a chat with one of us girls…I tell you, looking at us that day no sane boy would ever try and do that!...obviously that fact was lost on our dear sisters) and watch those juniors make a complete ass of themselves and laugh our heads off.
But that's all that we're supposed to do, sit and laugh…nothing else.
But we girls went a bit over board with all that unseen attention and praises like 'our beloved seniors who'd be leaving us soon' (we ignored the sarcasm), that we actually dared to stand…and not just anywhere, but on the chairs…And scream, and dance, and whistle…and much credit to the front benchers who tore down the barrier completely. I could have bet I even saw one teacher faint and the rest were fanning her…guess it would have been from the worry how the school was ever going to repay the damage being caused to the chairs!
As a direct result, an emergency meeting was convened the following morning and a long lecture of how unruly and un-ladylike our behaviour was the previous evening followed. We slept through it while others tried their best to show the 'guilt' on their faces (er…they were the front benchers ;) ) As a punishment we were asked to clean up the seating area and remove the chairs (their way of saving on labour costs and fixing the chairs I bet!).
And on this mission, I happened to spot a Rs 100 note lying at the bottom of a chair…another girl happened to spot it as well….I pounced on it and the rest of the crowd followed. After a lot of cat fights and some concrete support from my friends, I got to keep it. :D
Pesama poi irukalam…periya paruppu maari avala paathu oru line 'finders keepers, losers :P'
Ava poi sister kitta pottu koduthutta!
Unawares, me and my band of friends took off to the nearest ice cream parlour, Milky Way on Promenade Road*** and had a yummy time :D
A small bottle of Eucalyptus oil solved what lay in store for us back in school…!
Free lunch; There's no such thing as free lunch…ha what do they know?!
We had free desserts if not the whole lunch :P
(well, tricking a fellow human being into this evil ritual called 'treating' and hogging a whole week's food at once and robbing the person blind is not free lunch…it's not free anything…as someone is having to spend :D but we love doing it still don't we?!)
P.S: Now how many got that twisted thought when you saw the title?! ;)....and thanks BSK for bringing back the good old days' memories!
P.P.S: ***I did most of my schooling during my teens in Trichy, between R.S.K in BHEL and that stupid convent that I still hate.

Song On: Goodbye Nanba
Mood: Nostalgic

Labels: DML

Posted by Sat at 11:58 AM
14 comments

14 Comments:

good post..nice reading :)

By  brute, at 11:41 PM, January 23, 2007  

oops sorry! if somebody else had to comment first... ;)

By  brute, at 11:42 PM, January 23, 2007  

Hey Sat...
Ithukku than intha beating around the bush'a??? Paavam Bush... azhuthuduvaar :) on a different cloud of thots... Bush, Vadivel maathiri azhutha yeppadi irukkum awwwwwwwww :)
Milkyway'la oc icecream avaluv thane... I was luck on that Milkyway was my friends shop so niraya oc icecream saaptruken... Similarly Cbe'la Richie Rich is another friends shop so angayum oc ice cream :)

//P.S: Now how many got that twisted thought when you saw the title?! ;)//
hehehehe :)

By  KK, at 4:10 AM, January 24, 2007  

Nice recap down ur memory lane :)

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evil ritual called 'treating'
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LOL :)

and yeah, good beating around bush :P

By  Arunkumar, at 5:24 AM, January 24, 2007  

//and thanks BSK for bringing back the good old days' memories!//

aaha! Rommmmbbbbbaaaa thanksu'nga! :)

Unga post'ah padikrappo yenakku adhey thought dhaan. Yenakkum indha madhiri oru incident nyabagam varudhu.

Naan school'a vittu return aitrukum bodhu, there were few coins lying on the side of the road. I noticed it, but not my friends!

So what do i do? Nice'ah avangala kazhati vitutu.. i came back to the spot and started collecting the coins..... all kinds of coins... 1 rupee, 2 rupee and even 5 rupees. Ivalo childra payyana nee'nu kaekradhu yenakku kaekudhu... But inna panna appo andha kaasu kidaikradhy adhigam! :)

And I got my pocket full of coins! I don't know who dropped it there and for what purpose! Anyway I was very happy that day!! :)

By  Unknown, at 4:01 PM, January 24, 2007  

but adhey madhiri onnoru incident'um nyabagam varudhu! One day I lost a 100 rupee note, while playing in MGM Dizee world! :(

Adhaan solvanga... summa vandhadhu summavey poidum'nu! :(

By  Unknown, at 4:03 PM, January 24, 2007  

BSK...chk with sat...she mite gotta clue about it :D :D sat...chancela pongo...i had a pic of how u wud've been in school days..to be honest u out did my profile for u..chancela ponga...kandipa calvin thaan :D :D

By  gils, at 4:53 PM, January 24, 2007  

Brute;
thank you....!
kk;
I wish i cud 'beat bush' around but what to do...naa US-la illiye!
may be you give it a try...vadivel maari azhraananu paathu sollunga...but too much comedy
enna oru karpanai...hats off!
adikadi free ice cream-a...aniyayathuku vayitherichala kottikireenga.

By  Sat, at 9:13 PM, January 24, 2007  

Arun kumar;
adhuku thaana warn pannen....be prepared for the worst i am on a typing but no editing spree-nu!

BSK;
aaha....avala chillaraya
avallo chillarayum vizhundhum theriyama oru jeevan poi irukke adha nenachu paathen...enna maari over poruppa irunthu irukum!
and dont feel sad, summa vandhadhu summavey ellam pogathu...one day you lose, one day you gain...ellam sagajam
indha 100 ruba kadachadha post-a potten...en first salary-la modha modhall-a vaangina brand new sculler's shirt appadiye train-la tholanju pochu sob sob....adhukunu andha 100 rupees-ku naaya peya sanda pottadhu thaan kaaranumnu ayiduma!

Gils;
hehehe...correct...appadi kooda irunthu irukalam...given it flew all the way from chennai to trichy :P
edhu profile-a?...tcha tcha...naa romba samathu...thappi thavari indha oru incident-a vechu enna judge pannidaatheenga!
i hope ur profile went something like nalla adakamana samathu appavi ponnu...that would've been more accurate you see!

By  Sat, at 9:30 PM, January 24, 2007  

itha padichu enakum kosuvathi suthi..flashback story onnu nyabagam vandhuchu...enga college pakathula duty free stuff eduthitu pona truck accident aagiduchu...athula irundha perfume ah vera truck drivers rendu per eduthu research pannathula they foundh Alcohol some %...sarinu open panni adichu irukaanga...appo oruthan kettu irukaan ennada kasakuthunu.. innoruthan solli irukaan foreign saraku apdi thaan irukumnu...then both were hospitalized in few hours... :-)

By  Syam, at 9:48 PM, January 24, 2007  

@ Gils

//BSK...chk with sat...she mite gotta clue about it :D :D//

ohooo.. oruvela appadiyum irukkumo? ;)

Inna Sat, Gils solradhu unmaya? :)

@ Sat

//one day you lose, one day you gain...ellam sagajam//

inna oru thathuvam! :)

//en first salary-la modha modhall-a vaangina brand new sculler's shirt appadiye train-la tholanju pochu sob sob....adhukunu andha 100 rupees-ku naaya peya sanda pottadhu thaan kaaranumnu ayiduma!//

aagadhu! :)

@ Syam

//itha padichu enakum kosuvathi suthi..flashback story onnu nyabagam vandhuchu..//

sema comedy syam! :))

//appo oruthan kettu irukaan ennada kasakuthunu.. innoruthan solli irukaan foreign saraku apdi thaan irukumnu...then both were hospitalized in few hours... :-) //

aaha.... idha kooda yevalo humourous'ah sollirkaaru syam! :)

By  Unknown, at 4:12 PM, January 25, 2007  

SAT, sat, sat..... Dipika pathi thappa solliteengale SAT! :(

By  Unknown, at 4:55 PM, January 26, 2007  

BSK
thappa sollala....chumma vambu izhuthen...she's adorable. aana the way you get worked up when i say somehting about her is something that will encourage a sillavali like me :D
adhaan velayidinen
idhukelllam sad smiley pottu suthi vara koodathu...ogie? :)

By  Sat, at 6:39 PM, January 26, 2007  

Syam;
Perfume comedy suber!
i can't believe ppl could have actually done that....LOL

\\itha padichu enakum kosuvathi suthi\\
what an openning line...edho oru padathula indha maari oru spoof paathu irukken...pesama neenga oru spoof padam direct pannunga...pichi kittu pogum :D

By  Sat, at 7:22 PM, January 26, 2007  

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