Coffee Conversation in South India Aiyyo!

I am part South Indian, especially the last part. My actual name being Roflin D’souza Vengarippu Double Decker Bus. Anyway, that is beside the point.

To get in touch with my roots I often take a hike to meet my brothers down there. Though the idea is usually relaxation, it sometimes also gives way to posts on this blog. Now one of my brother is this typical south brain who cracks all the unnecessary entrances and is walking running encyclopedia of the Indian Education System.

Fortunately or unfortunately (depending on which part of the country you come from) he is strongly rooted to his South Indian lineage. And it presents itself the best when he speaks English. Now I know what it feels to have an accent but this guy takes it to a whole new level. And Sometimes it leads to longer conversations than what was otherwise required.

Like the other day, I was packing my bags to get back to Bombay, when this dude came to me (name withheld due to my inability to spell it).

He was like, “Rofu I had my GD PI at IIM yesterday ya.”

“Arre, fantastic! How did it go?”

“It was all going fine till they asked me about Science.” (This is where it begins to stretch)

Me got curious..”What Signs?” I asked.

“General Science..now what do you mean by what science?”

“What are general signs.. How can Signs be General??”

“What’s wrong with you?”

“What’s wrong with you?”

“Are you asking which subjects?” (he asked that, in case you got lost)

“It is a subject?” I had by now lost all interest in packing, “Signs” as a subject was news to me.

“Oh I get it”, he said with a fast widening smile, “this your usual ‘irritate for fun’ thing right!”

“Beta,” said I, “I consider that a compliment but I seriously don’t understand why they would as about general Signs.. it doesn’t make any sense.. what did the ask you?”

Frustrated Bro..”He showed me a bottle of water and asked me its chemical formula..”

“Eh..OH.. Oooh”

I couldn’t finish my enlightenment for he continued in the same vein. “I thought he was asking about water, so I said H2O but the dick was talking about the Plastic bottle.. talk about lack of communication man..heh!”

Ahem, yea.. talk about it.

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