A disaster avoided

It was about 11:30 in the nite n I was bugging a few friends online when suddenly I got a call from a frnd…she’d been a complaining about her life being so monotonous off late…but I could make out from her voice that she was very upset then …things were not going well at work so she wanted a break….i tried to console but it wasn’t helping n I knew she was in tears as she put the phone down…. Now…I can tolerate most things like…being forced to buy vegetables by mom….finding my comp table being turned into a dressing table by my sis…but seeing a friend like this is just not on for me. So I decided to give her a little surprise…next day about 1am..i called her up

Me : hiii…kya kar rahi hai??
She( wid a big yaaaaawn) : kuch nahi..bas wohi bouring office..
Me : mood thik hua kuch??
She : not much…luch karne ja rahi hoon
Me( trying hard not to laugh) : achha..akele akele….mujhe bhi bhook lagi hai
She(getting a bit irritated ) : toh tu bhi aaaja
Me: achha…yeh baat..le..aa gaya
She: kyaaa??
Me: yess madam…main aapke office ke bahar khada hoon…jaldi bahar aaja
She (waiting for me to end dis crap so dat she can start her lunch) : plzz..mera mood pehle hi kharab hai..abi to plzz fone rakh
Me (giggling) : bete..hum kahin bhi pahuch sakte hian..hoohoohaha
She(fuming now) : kya tera dimaag kharab ho gaya hai..kya subah subah chadha rakh hia tune??
Me : arrey tu bahar aayegi..main yahan dhoop main khada hoon

So…after a lot of convincing she finally came out..n got a real shock to see me standing there. And just when I was waiting for to say something like..”hey…its so sweet of u to come here..i really wanted to go out 2day”…she hits with “tera dimaag bilkul kharaab ho gaya hai..tu bilkul pagal aur gadha hai”…..but I know…she was really happy to see me…the 100watt smile being the proof.

We went to the Priya complex( humare bihar ke bhaiyon ke liye…priya complex is one of d coolest hang outs in delhi.)…had lunch at pizza hut…she did some shopping while I checked out the gals dere…dropped her back to office…n got a 1000watt smile this time.

The place brought back some fond memories of college days when we used to come here quite often…As most engg students…we were always broke…and only priya’s among all the multiplexes here has d option of cheap front row tickets. People always complain about the leg space at most theatres…but we guys just coudnt understand this problem…coz..sitting in the 1st row…we had all the room in the world to spread our legs…also the ‘Big Screen’ experience gets even more bigger in the front row….Even if the movie turned to be crap..like in the case of kisna….paheli..n a few more…we used to have a great time. Watching couples coochie-cooing everywhere…we used to wonder ”humara number kab aayega???”

There was this one incident which was so embarrassing…but yet very funny…Me…vaibhav…n kaushik…had planned to watch a movie at priya’s…I don remember d name…but what I do remember that it had turned out be really pathetic and we were passing the blame on each other for deciding for this movie as we entered pizza hut. As always…we took a long time deciding our order…I would be having spicy Indian pizza…while kaushik n vaibhav would be going for exotica pizza….a young girl came to take our order…kaushik…holding the menu in his hands…trying to look more sophisticated in a call-centre type accent said…” 1 spicy Indian..and 2 Errotica pizzas pleasse”

There are moments in life when time just stops…like when Tulsi(in kyuonki saas...) drops a glass full of water when she hears that her husband had been sleeping wid anoder woman….the action replay of the scene is then shown from five different angles with a dramatic background score…this was the kind of thing that happened there when mr kaushik ordered for errotica pizza…instead of exotica….time stood still

I looked at vaibhav and he looked at me…both of us not saying anything but our mouths wide open…n then we both looked at kaushik…his face was as blank as my radar engg answer sheet during final yr exams..…n of course…his mouth was open too…he knew that something was terribly wrong…but coundt figure out what had turned all of us in a statue….he just didn’t have a clue about what went wrong…the girl….half shocked…half embarrassed….managed to gather herself and went back…it was then we explained to our friend…that he was so damn lucky not to have been slapped by that lady….

as she came back with our order…we tried to avoid any eye contact with her….we were just so embarrassed....she kept the pizza in front of kaushik saying…”heres u’re exxxxotica pizza sir”….with a lot of stress on the word exotica….but to the relief of all three of us…she saw the funny side of it…n went back with a smile….and a potential disaster was decided…and I’m sure…kaushik remembers this whenever he places an order in pizza hut.