One particular incident, which uncovered my true self - 'THE IDIOT', comes to my mind.
** Even though, almost all of my friends called me an idiot, I used to dismiss them, until this day.
February 1998 - Me in 10th grade mugging up for the board exams in March.
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Board exams were approaching, many of us preferred to bunk school, to prepare for "The Day".
One fine Saturday, me and my mates, a typical bunch of backbenchers, but surprisingly including the scholars of my class, decided to go to school.
We knew it's a half day and we have a good chance of making it a fun day.
Half the school will be empty.
So, after the routine of mugging up all day, this seemed as a nice idea!!
As expected, the attendance was next to NULL, this is the side effect of being in IT u just can't think beyond NULL, aka just 10 of us from the class of 60 odd ppl, we were given a free period.
For those who don’t know what a free period is - It's the time when the teacher decides not to teach, most of the time because he is fed up of his own routine, but tries to put it's blame on the students by all means. In our case, it was lack of attendance. Such a lame excuse!!
And voila!! We got what we came for. Poor ol' fella. He advised us to make the most of it by reading books. But in this situation, we were like free dogs, allowed to roam on their will, do what ever they want. We just found the ideal condition.
As soon as our beloved "sir" left the classroom. We gathered to decide future agenda.All types of suggestions came in (I know ... I know, u might think - what can a 10th grader suggest, but wait!), and finally we agreed on cricket, not outside, but inside the class room!!
Looking around the room, there wasn't much apparatus available to use for cricket.
Now what? A stupid idea, we thought and started finding the bugger who gave it.
And when all hopes started to drain, there came the voice of the brightest star of our bunch - Kunal [actually the most dumbest one, even more than me, but in that situation he looked so bright. :)]
"Why don't we go to the room on the other floor, the one for the Sr KG.!! There is a thing there, I don't know what they call it, but it has plastic balls on it. Which they use to teach children how to count. And we can break its wooden supports to use it as a bat!!"
Whoa!! What just happened? Was that Kunal?
The "Think Tanks" of my group, envisaged a disaster, as we were talking about breaking things, but the majority was in mood of doing it - "Don't worry yaar, we will try to keep it as low as possible. Koi ne khabar pan nahi pade (Nobody will know). Anyways it's a Saturday, half rooms are empty and there aren't many ppl around."
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