Keeeeeees andooorsssss

Atul locks himself out of his car one day in a restaurant near his house.. But he looks quite confident and the reason being "I have a spare key in my room.. I can go and get it"... and keeps eating his food .. After 2 minutes, he suddenly lifts his head up and wonders "Oh, by the way my room key is also locked up inside the car" !!!!!

A Pleasant Surprise

Contributed by Saurabh Jain
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Sometimes even the most meticulous people can do a blunder....

December 2004, After my graduation I am moving to "LaLa Land" California for a job. My mallu friend's ever creative mind tells him, why not throw Saurabh a surprise farewell party. He takes pain (well not really, he just loves it) and write a few emails to quite a few common friends, convincing the guys (and girls ofcourse) to attend the party and make my day. Poor guys, most of 'em having final exam in a couple of days, couldn't say no to "The Shock" (would have definitely cursed me though).

Here comes the interesting part, excited shock knocks at my door asking me my email password. Its not that I don't trust him but you know....... its my email password...... After asking a zillion times, Shock tells me that he has sent me an email which I am not supposed to read so he wants to log in and delete that mail from my account.

Yes, he has included my email address also in the "Surprise Party" email which he sent to other people. Well I did got some idea as to whats going on but not to the extent it actually happened... It was great.

Moral of the Story: Every "Shock" has his day.

Raitha

Hardly does any cooking TURN of atul pass away without some BURN or some joke or some interesting incident

One day atul decides to cook pulav , and not the ususal daal

and what more.. even raitha with it, he claimed

we come home, see a cooker full of "pulav".. but no raitha..

"Hey da, where is the raitha"

Atul : "Do u see those cut vegetable packets " ??

"Yeah"

Atul : "Yeah, just mix them, add some yogurt and salt to ur taste, and that should be the raitha"

wangwang

again for a change this is about our landlady , before we moved into the house

the 80 year old fit chinese

Comes home one saturday, wakes up the first guy she finds , asks him to help her clean the attic.. both work hard.. two hours later, the 20 some guy is tired and goes to sleep again

She calls the next guy in the house, 2 hrs down the road, he is also dead tired..

The third guy could not stand any more than that either

the land lady goes "any more guys in the house " ?

roomies

One morning shock wakes up to see saurabhs University ID slipped under his door.... !

apparently atul had lost his ID somewhere, taken saurabhs id to get into the lab late nite, and then slipped it under shocks door thinking its saurabhs room

there are many occasions when he walks into shocks rooms shouting :"hey saurabh".. and then "Oh its your room"... Man, aren't u the "head of the house" ?

Phone joke-4

In 5816, we once wanted a sublet for one month

Note: 10 mins walk from our house was spring hill lake apartments, which at that time was considered a little unsafe , but some one checking our house need not know that and did not have to bother about that

some lady called up, and kudva shock and atul are on the phone explaining to her about the house

Lady: so where are u all from
Kudva: some of us are from bangalore- Me, Bharat, and... (he can't remember who else)
Atul : Hey, and Atul raaa

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Lady : is the area safe ?
Kudva: yeah its very safe
atul : springhill lake is across the road on the other side of beltway plaza ....

Silence for 15 seconds ....

Kudva : so when do you want the room from ? ..................

Some ini

Bharath sees atul talking to some girl... he walks in to meet them. atul introduces his friend to bharat "Hey meet my friend Nalini".. The girl says "No, I am Yamini"

ticket please

Somewhere in NC.. atul jumps a red signal- nothing so unusual, but his bad luck, a cop catches him.. and worst he did not have his records...- points + fine + "submit the records tomorrow"

The next day he comes back to MD, gets his papers and rushes back to NC

He decides to challenge the points in court.. On the summons day, goes to the court in NC, successfully gets it waivered, but finds a parking ticket when he comes back to his car !

And then he forgets to pay the parking ticket in time, and gets a fine on that !!!

caaard

Once more, good picturisation helps

Giant store

atul is asked for the discount card,... he gives his univ ID.. the lady smiles ...

he is asked to swipe his credit card... he swipes in all the 3 different possible wrong ways, before he finally gets it right... try if you can match the feet .... I bet, you cannot get the 3 wrong sequences that easily in a row

A walk in the air

You have to picturise this

In the old house, the staircase and the door to our washer room were next to each other.. One day as kudva watched, atul is reading washington post and trying to climb the staircase into the washer room.. after keeping 2-3 steps in air, he realises, only to see a stunt kudva staring at him

"crystallizzzzzzzzed

11 pm.. shock and atul have an argument over a solid state problem.. about crystal lattices

Both hold on to their views.. shock goes to sleep at 11.30 pm

3 am in the morning, atul wakes up shock from his sleep "Hey man, you were right about that crystal lattice problem" !

"why din't u wake me up"

5816 seminole street

Saturday morning

6 am , atuls alarm rings.. sometimes its in "radio" mode, and so instead of alarm it will be world news all of a sudden from bhis room ... Atul puts it in snooze, but Kudva gets disturbed and wakes up

7 am, the snoozed alarm rings again.. shock gets up .. atul puts it to snooze again

8 am, despo gets up with a "whaat raa.. its saturday morning"

9 am, even swami gets up hearing atuls alarm...

the Lion king will still be sleeping .. and then 10 am he finally gets up.. and when junta crib to him about his alarm, he will go " You guys all woke up and u still din't wake me up" !

fruit

This is when swamy was staying with us.. apparently he had written is some groups that atul is a fruit.. so atul comes home and asks swami "why do u keep telling around people that I am a fruit ?" .. swami coolly replies "Oh, I did not know that it was a secret"

foolproof

atul keeps trying to open a can of something... and can't

calls kudva for help... Kudva man comes, looks at it and says "Obviously u can't open it.. it says foolproof"

Desires

Being in areospace, atul always wanted to fly helicopters and aeroplanes.. once apparently he even went into the cockpit of a flight he was in (hopefully he did not put any fundaes)

There was helicopter on campus- and it was tied using strings to the ground.. and we used to say that its for fear of atul getting in it and flying it one fine day

and we kept saying after helicopters and aeroplanes, atuls aim is to be in and fly a UAV, and then a UFO !!

"its a long way buddy"

One of the first weeks in US, ATul stands on the wrong side of the road (the india hang over0, and takes the metro bus in the oppossite direction.. At the end of the route, atul realised something's wrong.. It shouldn't take this long ... so he asks the driver .. "where is beltway plaza" ? .. "Its a long way buddy" goes the driver... thankfully he sat in the same bus and got back home finally

During summer, the same University shuttle runs in two different routes alternately... Atul was supposed to take springhill lake, but did not realise that the board has been changed to silver spring... he goes on one full round, comes back to the same starting poing, where his housemate gets into the bus, to be surprised to see atul in a what-was "silver spring" shuttle... Knowing fully well what he was going get, atul does a preemptive strike..something like "I went on a site seeing trip to silver spring.. Now this is springhill lake.. so come on in, this should take us home"

Have u seen the white house ?

This was the time when we were all just a few weeks in US

University takes us on a DC trip (but they don't take us to white house) ... twice atul got seperated from the group.. first time, he got back with some ones help... second time he was enjoying the pictures in the art gallery and the group just walked away.. when everyone's home atul is missing.. he comes back late and when we start making fun of him for being so absent minded, quick comes the reply "I just went on a walk... Have u guys seen the white house yet? I did"

It was not too long before we realised that when atul actually gets home, thats because he has lost his way, and accidentally got to the house .. whenever he tried actually coming home, he ended up somewhere else !! (yeah bit of an exagg...)

"Flat"tiry

After his one month India trip, atul comes back to find his car tyre flat...

He goes to a "used car shop" and gets it replaced for a cheap price.. only to find it flat again the next day morning

Goes to the same shop, drops of the car, gets it replaced for free by another used tyre, and picks it up in the evening ....

Next day morning, again FLAT ....

Same routine... morning... "new" used tyre.. evening pick up... This time he adds a word of caution to the shopkeeper.. "If it goes flat again, I will again drop it off tomorrow morning and pick it up in the evening"

I think it worked... or was there one more time in went flat ??? can't remember