Mar 02, 2007 10:23 AM
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What happens next? Ask the waiter who was serving us. To call it MAYHEM would be an understatement. Those dudes were at their wit’s end wondering how to tackle this bunch of young adults. When two scientists, a HR dudette, an army-man cum coastguard, a bespectacled geek, a KK and an army man meet, it has to be the most talked about meet of the year. Who was missed? A multi-faceted Bihari from Noida, an almost-next-door-neighbour of the HR dudette and an organizer who’s leg chucked out at the last moment.
A very Geeky story
The geek has to confess that the meet was postponed by at least 2 weeks because of his non-availability. The Organizer asked the geek to meet her in the Metro at a certain station, from where they will go together. But the organizer’s organizations fell apart, literally!
Kacha kacha pakka pakka?
So the HR dudette takes the initiative and says that we meet at Café Coffee Day in CP. The geek knows that there are two CCDs in CP and in close proximity. Which one? He wonders. He gets the answer – inner circle. Geek wonders – inner circle? Really? Since when? Nah, impossible! He knows it is in the outer circle. He smses the scientist and informs her that its in the outer circle. Smart geek! Because geeks are always right.
Apne kuch kaha, humne kuch suna. Aap kuch bole, hum kuch samjhe
The geek was travelling in the swanky new Metro of Delhi when he gets a phone call from the HR dudette. He tries to listen to what she is saying. He tries to hear something in the noise of ‘agla station …. hai. Darwaaze baayi taraf… ’ What he hears is ‘I am sitting … side from the door as … CCD’(Fill in the blanks yourself and figure out what happened next!)
Geek enters CCD, looks around, confused.(This goes on to prove that geeks are not so smart after all). Finally, he finds the HR dudette, perched in a corner with her pretty little cousin in tow. Geek and dudette shake hands. Dudette asks geek about the scientists. Are they coming? Geek isn’t sure, so he takes out his cool mobile phone, punches a few keys and within seconds is in a call to one of the scientists. By the time he asks her ‘Where are you?’ he sees them outside the entrance of CCD. Ah! Some familiar faces, geek wonders. More handshakes follow. And some Kodak moments later the four(umm… five, including the pretty cousin) settle down in the corner picked for them.
From Baba to KK
The HR dudette wonders if Baba is coming. He is invited and by the look of the things, we’re sure that Baba will arrive soon. Sure enough, a tall, dark(and ladies, please describe the rest of Baba yourself!) Kool Keralite walks in. Some more handshakes and Kodak moments follow. Minutes later, the army man and the coastguard arrive, and some more Kodak moments are added.
Btw, these Kodak moments were not clicked!
The nightmare begins!
Not for us, but for the dudes serving us. These dudes had been on top of the HR dudette as she waited for the gang to arrive and now the gang had turned the tables on them. Dudette wondered, thank god for the gang to help me out! Mayhem followed as the Kool Keralite and the geek took turns asking for more chairs. Thankfully, the elderly couple sitting next to us vacated their couch and we quietly moved there, onto the bigger couch.
HR dudette visits this place most often so she doesn’t even bother to look at the menu. She orders something that’s incomprehensible to half of us and we follow her advice and order the same thing for us. Some cookies arrive, followed by a free cappuccino and we settle down into the great game of dissecting MouthShut.
Dudette asks who has done video reviews. Geek points to Kool Keralite. Geek wonders is that why KK is a star writer? A geek is after all a geek. Geek wonders, how the hell can you be a writer if you’re doing video reviews? Some friendly banter later, the geek and the scientists talk about the next geek-scientist meet, closer home. Date remains inconclusive, because as it turns out, geek is still not available on weekends. That’s bad of geek really.
More discussions follow. Army man says don’t watch Eklavya. Geek wonders what he talking about? Army man then adds that Black Friday is a must watch. Geek wonders, hmm… lets wait for the DVD.
Geek looks around. Despite the receding hairline, Kool Keralite reminds him of one of his Keralite friends now settled in Dubai. Geek has just been to Kerala 2 months ago and knows that KK will be there soon. Geek looks further around. He catches the coastguard sitting in the corner closer to him, and wonders how can a person be as quiet as him? The talking point is about the HR dudette’s almost-neighbour who was stuck somewhere in teacher’s village(Gurgaon). Geek wanted to ask him how he has managed to invite more than 120 people to MouthShut without keeping his mouth shut! Never mind, as they say, there’s always a next time! Geek decided to ask him next time.
Payment time!
Army man asks geek how we are going to pay. Geek suggests that lets follow the organizer’s instructions to the core. Each one pays for himself/herself. Suggestion agreed to by everyone. Bill is presented. Some quick mathematics later, geek arrives at some simple figures and out come Rs 10 and 50 notes. Now imagine the look on the face of the waiter dude when we present him Rs 713 in notes of Rs. 10, 20 and 50 and coins of Rs 1, 2 and 5! What about the tip? Forget it; this waiter will remember us for a lifetime, for he got a few coins as his tip!
Kodak Moments
Did I mention that there were a few more Kodak moments? No I didn’t. Yes, these Kodak moments were indeed clicked and shared among the friends before we bid adieu to a wonderful post-lunch coffee meet.
The agenda of the next meet was also decided. The organizer will be asked to make up for her absence and the HR dudette will be relieved of her responsibility of picking a place for the meet. As for the geek, well once a geek, always a geek. Geeks have meetings on phone and on messengers rather than in person. But this geek vows to meet in person, the next time a meet happens.
Trivia
Guess who is who. Lucky winner will get a DVD of disco dancing steps of Mithunda.
PS: Star cast of the above meet excluded from this contest.
