Can you jump ?
It all started with this statement between myself and aruchu. We both had come out of the mess after the snacks and were standing on the first floor of new boys hostel outside his room looking at the lush green grass on the lawn. At that time, there were no grills on those huge openings (or whatever they were called). As we were approaching his room, I challenged him, "Bet you cannot jump from here onto the grass. You are shit scared to do that".
He looked at me, knew he was really scared, and smiled, "I can. No big deal". We both knew that he will not jump no matter how much I challenged him so I kept on pressing, "You chicken, You loser, You are scared to death to jump this small height. Everyone in this college can jump but you. Even a kid can make it, but you."
We were having this argument, when our mr-tall-with-longest-legs was passing by. He listened to us and said,"This jump. I can make it with my eyes closed." Went to the room, put on his shoes, came back and jumped out from that place without a thought, came back up the stairs and said, "That was easy." Aruchu did feel a little insulted and replied, "This is it. I am doing it as well." He went to the room and got on his shoes, came back and sat on the window facing the lawn, "arey yaar, yeh bahut zyada hai." I and peddy were laughing like mad and continuously taunting him. By that time, a good 8-10 people had joined us and poor aruchu was sitting there trying to muster some courage so that at least he could look down.
By then, Prashant Verma appeared from nowhere and saw whats happening. He was like this-will-give-a-nice-kick, and jumped from the first floor, came back and jumped again. By that time, some 3-4 folks have also made their jump including myself and aruchu was still sitting there waiting for a push. Then came some more fellows from 99 and 2K batch and made the jump without hesitation. Now, our guy was having a serious inferiority complex as to what to do. By this time, he had tried 3-4 times to jump out and one point he was almost on his half ass, about to jump, and came back into the corridor as soon as he saw someone approaching him. Now, I do not remember how many people had already jumped and how many more were still coming to the hostel to enact this. Finally, aruchu gathered some courage, when he saw that people have left after being tired of taunting him and he is not gonna jump, thats when he finally pushed himself out and realized that he was the tallest person to have made this jump. People continued this till the dinner.
A few days later, we got the grills.
He looked at me, knew he was really scared, and smiled, "I can. No big deal". We both knew that he will not jump no matter how much I challenged him so I kept on pressing, "You chicken, You loser, You are scared to death to jump this small height. Everyone in this college can jump but you. Even a kid can make it, but you."
We were having this argument, when our mr-tall-with-longest-legs was passing by. He listened to us and said,"This jump. I can make it with my eyes closed." Went to the room, put on his shoes, came back and jumped out from that place without a thought, came back up the stairs and said, "That was easy." Aruchu did feel a little insulted and replied, "This is it. I am doing it as well." He went to the room and got on his shoes, came back and sat on the window facing the lawn, "arey yaar, yeh bahut zyada hai." I and peddy were laughing like mad and continuously taunting him. By that time, a good 8-10 people had joined us and poor aruchu was sitting there trying to muster some courage so that at least he could look down.
By then, Prashant Verma appeared from nowhere and saw whats happening. He was like this-will-give-a-nice-kick, and jumped from the first floor, came back and jumped again. By that time, some 3-4 folks have also made their jump including myself and aruchu was still sitting there waiting for a push. Then came some more fellows from 99 and 2K batch and made the jump without hesitation. Now, our guy was having a serious inferiority complex as to what to do. By this time, he had tried 3-4 times to jump out and one point he was almost on his half ass, about to jump, and came back into the corridor as soon as he saw someone approaching him. Now, I do not remember how many people had already jumped and how many more were still coming to the hostel to enact this. Finally, aruchu gathered some courage, when he saw that people have left after being tired of taunting him and he is not gonna jump, thats when he finally pushed himself out and realized that he was the tallest person to have made this jump. People continued this till the dinner.
A few days later, we got the grills.
posted by Diablo Reigns at 5:15 PM
4 Comments:
Nice one asif.. i remember this incident, though i was just a spectator :)
You did not jump?
Yah. Not that I could not, but I chose not to :P Now don't start the same game (as was with Arul) all over again ;)
Aruchu gave me the same excuse for not jumping. So there is no difference.
Post a Comment
<< Home