Prompt:- Write about a brief but scary encounter that you had with any one of your school or college faculties.
This happened when I was in class 10 and my exams were ending. You can imagine the relief and relaxation at the back of my head. It was the end of the first big exam of my life after all. Trust me, a student in India needs no additional help to realize how important this particular set of exams is. Anyways, there used to be a place near my school where me and my friends used to wait for everyone to arrive and then leave for our homes on our cycles. My friend Vivek Patel and me used to go on my cycle, with me as the pillion rider as he was healthier (Ya that was my excuse, plus the fact that it was my cycle 😛 ). I had just gone to a nearby shop for a moment and Vivek had gone a little ahead of the group as everyone was leaving when I came back. I started asking everyone where he is. That was when D.K.Pandey sir got there. This is how everything happened after that.
D.K: Which class are you from?
Me: 10D, sir.
(DK jumps and slaps me!!)
D.K:(screaming) “You were playing football on the streets here in school uniform with a bottle? You don’t know anything about discipline? You wait till I get my hands on you in school. I will talk to your class teacher!”
Saying that, he walks away with some of his colleagues who were standing at a distance.
I walked back to my friends who were having a really hard time stifling their laughter and not making one of me. Some of them actually did, pretty brutally. Well, they are friends after all. 🙂
Amidst all of this, you might wonder, why was I slapped? Was I not curious after being humiliated like this in the middle of the road? It didn’t take my friends long to understand that and put it to me in nice and polite words, emphasizing how unlucky I was.
Apparently, I was calling Vivek the same way everyone calls him, “Patel! Patel!”
I am not surprised that to a midget of a person, who is well beyond the physical age of occupational retirement and mental age of social retirement, that sounded like “Bottle! Bottle!”
That was all it took 😛
Arnab Mukherjee 