It can get worse
It was during my final year of engineering. Cosmo was the happening bar/restaurant in our campus. It had just opened and the ambience was superb. Handsome hunks from hotel management frequented this place. More than that, the huge plasma screen TV showing MTV grind and other masala was the big attraction. The place was shit expensive too. But being cool was everything. Since we losers didn’t have boyfriends with fat wallets, we stuck around nursing a coke for 3 hours. Two cans of coke for the seven of us.
When I came out, I couldn’t find my Kine. Nah! That can’t be. Me being the cool cat and all, didn’t panic. I searched a little more. Knowing my absentmindedness, I looked in the neighboring parking lots as well. Ok now! Time to panic!!! Oh my God..Oh my God! Who could have stolen it??? What do I do?? Will my parents buy me another one??*verge of tears*
What a horrid day this has been.. I started tracing my way back to the morning when I locked my roommate inside (bolted the door and sealed it with the Godrej lock) obviously not realizing she was sleeping. She usually sleeps all day, but somehow she woke up that fateful day as she had an exam. Finding herself locked (courtesy me), she got mad! Not thanking me for a perfectly good excuse, she blamed me for not being able to take her exam. Things got so bad…I had to face the warden, the principal, her parent’s phone call. Yikes!!
AND NOW MY KINETIC WAS STOLEN! Anyway, the most logical thing to do, I took an auto to Cosmo to relate this misfortune to my friends and then probably go to the police station. Now I am usually oblivious to surroundings. But somehow I paid attention in the Cosmo parking lot. I noticed a huge gathering of people, a cop (maybe two) and quite a miserable chap. The chap was murmuring something about his stolen Kinetic.. Aha! Now my ears perked up. Another case! So there’s a serial kinetic robber in this town!
I was about to give my version- sobbing dramatically, when I noticed something really strange. My Kinetic!! In the parking lot, same place where I had parked it when I landed here with my friends.
Elation turns into mystery! Mystery turns into realization! Realization turns into shock! (you get the drift right?)
So now I know that I didn’t drive my Kinetic to the email center, I drove this poor dude’s! Actually I stole it! Gawd!!! Somehow my keys had worked on his vehicle…
Should I tell these people that his Kinetic is out there? Will they believe my story? I don’t think so!
So I run into the restaurant, consult with my friends and do the smartest thing I ever did. Start my Kinetic quickly and push off to the hostel without looking back. This time I made sure it was mine.
Next few nights, I had nightmares of fingerprints, prison bars and watery daal!
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| Intention December 13, 2003 09:04 AM PST  Intentions have already been made clear Hidden agendas there are none Please do not have any fear That will only spoil the fun If you wish to continue : Deep in the Canyon where little grass grows At the bottom where the green river flows Lies a note simple and straight That will not make patience wait If you do not : Inform the Voyeur that you wish to depart Bring it to a close where it all did start | ||
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| patience December 13, 2003 02:07 AM PST Patience will wait for time to come out with the intentions. Genuine or not. | ||
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| shubir October 17, 2003 06:23 AM PDT :)))) reminds me of one time when I actually sat in somebody else's car...and told the driver "chalo bhaiya!"...all this, while my bike was standing 2 feet away! | ||
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| alpha October 13, 2003 01:26 PM PDT krithika, yeah, i hope all this has an happy Ending with me getting the Nobel prize. I do remember my name (I have a cheat sheet), small mercies. | ||
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| alpha October 13, 2003 01:22 PM PDT Wow! So many people like me..We shud all open some forum, have presentations, eat and drink, exchange stories and forget all about it. About the fella and his Kine...Do you think I bothered to follow up??? Go to the police station the next day (with gloves and burkha) and ask, "Officer, did you find the stolen Kinetic near the mail center?" No freakin way! But i did drive past he mail center. it wasnt there. Someone else might have stolen it:) | ||
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| Queer October 13, 2003 12:59 PM PDT Phew....that was close. I once tried to open somebodyelse's car..then realised its not mine:) btw...did the guy ever get his kinetic back?? | ||
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| wandy October 13, 2003 08:42 AM PDT hehehehehe...you always manage to make me smile...:) it also feels good toknow that other people suffer from this too....:D have a good one!! | ||
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| Krithika October 13, 2003 08:18 AM PDT OK, I can see a budding scientist in you alpha, for most of them were absent minded. And I'm sure you'd have heard the story of Einstien forgetting his own name. Now, can you remember what your real name is?? | ||
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| akanksha October 13, 2003 05:07 AM PDT :)))))))))))))))))))))),did the poor chap find his kine ????????hail alpha,:D,me thinks u have just outdone urself in the absentmindedness dept., hey isn't there a trophy 4 most absentminded-person of the year with ur name on it?;) | ||
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| Name October 13, 2003 04:58 AM PDT :)))))))),wow & i thought tht i was the queen of absentmindedness, hats off 2 u my dear,hey, did the poor chap find his kine????? | ||
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| someone October 12, 2003 03:46 PM PDT amazing!, and you manage to do it all by yourself?!! | ||
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| alpha October 12, 2003 10:14 AM PDT EC: Tu bhi kya???Lets exchange bhulakkad stories. Kine victim kya, uska baccha blog kar raha hai aaj kal. Its been a while I guess. Wait, usse nipat lethi hoon. Kiddo: Your Kine? hehaha *laughs wickedly*. Kausa color tha, Kalia? (not that I wud know). *Suddenly realises* Are we playing Monopoly? Heretic: I am tending towards thinking I shud switch u as a friend. Saala! bhejta hai ki nahin?!. Star: Arey yaar! Like I said, i dont forget people. So u all are safe in my forgetful mind. So no fotu wotu! | ||
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| starfest October 12, 2003 07:58 AM PDT I agree with the comments....stop saving up your brain for some rainy day girl ... and start using it .... and yeah, pati ka fotu wallet mein rakhna na ... or you might go home with someone else's pati ek din! | ||
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| heretic October 12, 2003 06:35 AM PDT Have ya ever "switched" or "swapped" any other thing or person or ... hehehe u get the point ah? BTW, u left out huge lesbo warden... :D | ||
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| KineVictim Kiddo October 12, 2003 03:11 AM PDT Ahhhhhhhhh that was my kinetic. I am coming to catch ya Alphy. If u want to stay safe to mere unNumbered swiss account me unCountable money jama karva dena. Warna mai Gabbar ko bata dunga ! | ||
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| elaichi October 11, 2003 04:58 PM PDT hahahahhehehehahah ...ur quite the mixed up one ! ..n i thot i was the biggest absent idiot on earth forgettin my passport ....tu toh sava kya deidd sher nikli re !! ....u KineChor ...i hope that guy is a blogger n stumbles across this post .... would be fun to read his comments !!! :D... i hope u carry ur pati ka fotu in ur wallet ..ek din uska chehra hi bhuil jaegi toh ?! | ||
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| alpha October 11, 2003 01:02 PM PDT Amit: U think I'll divulge that kinda info here??! I'm absentminded, but quite smart. Khotta: U know what, I think I picked up your brain from some locker instead, thats y all this! Morph: Good thing, I didnt do any exchanges of that sort..hehe Er...Deepak, I am the psycho here! If you are talking about a psychic, ....OUCH! | ||
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| Deepak October 11, 2003 09:14 AM PDT See a psycho, man. U need some treatment | ||
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| Polymorphicus October 11, 2003 09:06 AM PDT Something similar happened at my office some months back. Motorbikes got "exchanged", the righful owner made a complaint at the police station. Things got sorted out after necessary currency notes were "swapped". | ||
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| khotta depp. October 11, 2003 02:59 AM PDT haaaaahaaaaahooohooo nother one of life's proverbial blunders. heed my advice. take your brain out frm the fixed deposit tht u hav put it in .Stop saving ur bheja n start using it. Now look at me...evn without my bheja(coz m savin it too) i do a tad better than u. :p | ||
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| AmitL October 10, 2003 10:45 PM PDT Hi,Twin,Nimble Fingers would have been your second name,if you had continued the business-u know,flicking kinetics with a master key and all. Did u ever pick any 'safe' locks,ever?Arre,galti se,I mean,assuming the safe was yours when it belonged to a bank?? | ||
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| alpha October 10, 2003 09:23 PM PDT Mat: But how difficult is it for the cops to find his Kine. I'm sure they did. Ab tho I ran out of country..Catch me if u can! Suds: I know man! To drive the point, daal was served from jugs. Pat: Udaas no hoya karo tusi, the chap might have gotten over it! And like I told u, me is not a normal person. Such questions have been asked many times re! Like how can u sit in a different classroom and listen to the whole lecture? Lot of things going on in my head, no time to think how the vahan feels. But I have improved...there is more scope. | ||
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| Patrix October 10, 2003 06:44 PM PDT tussi great ho !!! poor chap all harassed but the strange part is that u didn't realize it wasn't ur Kine...usually guys recognize their vahaan as soon as it starts up..coz it feels right :) | ||
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| suds October 10, 2003 05:51 PM PDT I dunno about the fingerprints and prison bars...but watery daal is nothing new for a hostelite..:) | ||
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| alpha October 10, 2003 05:26 PM PDT Aiyaaa! This is what I dreaded all along. I have a kid roaming around and I forgot! Who the hell named you Matrix??? | ||
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| Matrix October 10, 2003 05:14 PM PDT Alphy mataji (since u've already labeld me kid on yogi's blog)...absentmindedness @ its best!! now i know y i'm so absentminded too, frm my mataji...hereditary, tupunka jeans 've come in me!! n did that poor soul find his kinetic later??? if he didnt fir to ther still b FIR against a Kinetic chor!!! now even i gettin nitemares abt u behind prison bars, watery daal...n me comin to see u ther!!! sob sob... | ||
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| alpha October 10, 2003 04:23 PM PDT hey Zappie! Glad to have you back...looks like you met no tigers! Me been ok! I hate to go back to ur site to see no new post again. But I will anyways! | ||
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| Zap October 10, 2003 04:03 PM PDT Ok. I read all the ones i missed. How have you been otherwise? | ||
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