Disclaimer: Any coincidence to anyone living or dead is purely a figment of your imagination!A couple of years back, a
weird thing happened to a friend of mine, lets call him '
Suppandi'. After spending an agonizing hour in Bangalore's famous traffic jam waiting to release the liquid in his underbelly, he finally reaches his swanky workplace.
Suppandi rushes to the men's room, avoiding his friend's(
Muniyandi's) angry call for breakfast, priority being the inexplicable urge to relieve himself. After all when u
gotto go...u
gotto go. After experiencing the 'nirvana',
Suppandi zips himself up, only to find that his zip chose to pop onto his hand.
Suppandi being an otherwise ingenious mind could not think of a single idea to save himself from the
awkward situation. Here he was, tie clad, shirt tucked in, holding his trouser
's zip.
Now,
Muniyandi (whom I
shud probably call a life-saver retrospectively) enters the scene. He starts buzzing
Suppandi urging him to finish the loo business ASAP and relieve him of his grumbling tummy. A bit about
Muniyandi- He is our hero's partner in crime, a complete ladies man- very sincere when it comes to making them feel at home.
Suppandi had no option but to tell him of the 'critical' situation.
Muniyandi advises him to tuck out the shirt and remove the tie and start acting cool. Grumbling,
Suppandi does so and made his way out, looking out for prying eyes. As luck
vud have it, our hero
Suppandi presumes that every girl's eyes were upon him. As
Suppandi walked back to his cubicle, a brainwave hit him...."SAFETY PIN". He reaches out to
Muniyandi and begs him to check out the nearby shopping complex for safety pins.
After an endless....agonising wait,
Muniyandi rings up saying that the shopping mart
doesn't have any. Now our hero -
Suppandi is devastated! As he sat raking up his dead brain,
Muniyandi comes into the cubicle and hands him 2 teeny weeny safety pins which he managed to secure from 1 of his many girlfriends.
Suppandi controlled his urge to kiss
Muniyandi, after all he did not want him to be considered gay by the ladies.
Suppandi asks his friend how he managed to get those pins ...did he tell the girl of
Suppandi's situation. Though
Muniyandi vehemently denies, I believe
Suppandi still doubts
Muniyandi's noble effort considering how 'open'
Muniyandi gets with girls. Now our hero,
Suppandi fiddles around with the pins and came out looking like a soldier returning from a battle...''All smiles''.
Now it was time to start the day's work. As
Suppandi starts to sit down, those
goddamn pins chose to pop out.
Apparently 2 teeny weeny pins found the pressure from the belly too much to handle.
Suppandi quickly sits on his seat and assumes a casual countenance. He messages his life-saver (
Muniyandi) and pleads him to use his charm again. This time,
Muniyandi's attempts were a failure. As a last hope,
Suppandi casually asks the girl sitting next to him if she has a safety pin and oh-la-la, she magically came out with a bunch of strong beautiful, stainless steel pins. Our hero
accepts them with glee and rushes back to the confines of the men's room. Now, he huffs and puffs to get the pins into position. But sadly he is not experienced with the
subtle-ness involved in making those appear invisible on his pants, they were jutting out of his trousers -visible to the whole world.
Our hero again calls upon
Muniyandi for help. Now to the grand finale,
Muniyandi stands outside the bathroom and instructs
Suppandi on how to use the safety pins. "Get those pins from inside out and then in"-he says. Our hero cud not really understand, after all he
understood only the world of C...
unicode.... machine code..Java beans..coffee beans..zeroes-ones!
Muniyandi gets so bugged that he nearly barges in wanting to take the 'matter' in his hands.
Suppandi had to use all his managerial skills to keep
Muniyandi out. Wonder
vot those fellow loo users
vud have thought.
After an agonizing, traumatic, backbreaking hour, our hero and his partner emerged- ''Victorious''!
Looking back, both cud have used the services of a clothing outlet in campus..a 5 min walking distance from their building. Alas, they were born with the brains of a software engineer.
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There are times when I crave for reliving the past. There are so many memories attached to certain places that I feel very emotionally attached to these places. I love most teashops in Pondicherry for they used to be my hangout places, courtesy my “Wills-lifestyle” friends. Kodagu or Coorg as its called is another such place and the trip was as good as it can get. 
