College FlashBack

This post was triggered by an article on my college-mate, Sathya's blog. He had written about some of his funny experiences in college, and I just could not help thinking about some of my very own 'really funny' memories from college! So here goes..

We had this sir in college, who was addressed as 'T.R'. Before you guys start wondering too much, it was because of the similarity in looks :-) He was the ultimate "comedy-man" anyone could ask for! A crowd puller, in his own sense. Just the thought of attending his class, made us wake up early in the morning with a smile on our faces. His english was next to horrible but the man used to deny that to the core. You know what, when a friend of mine tried talking to him in Tamil (cos he was tamilian), you know what he said, " Actually I am more comfortable speaking in the English, so please avoid Tamil in the" !!! Now that requires guts!! :-) The guy who had tried speaking in Tamil was embarrassed to the core, and yes, true to college life, he got teased all through his college life...

Moving on, another thing that made T.R one of the most popular people in college, was his inclination towards 'articles'. Yes you heard me right, the man just would not be able to sleep if every sentence of his did not contain atleast 3 or 4 articles !! He was one person who could start a sentence with an article, and end the same with an article too :-) Invariably, all his sentences ended with 'the'. How it made sense, dont ask me! I'll quote some examples, cos I know all u guys are pretty confused. "What is the time of the?", " Where is Vinay in the?", " All of u listen of the " lol. You wont believe, a friend of mine and I, used to go late for his class as usual, and guess what my friend used to ask him, standing at the door? " Excuse me sir, in the " ..... Any guesses what our sir's reply would be? " Yes yes, come in the ". :-) The entire class would burst out in a fit of boisterous laughter! Such was the fun we had.

Then there was this incident when a friend, sitting next to me, was caught talking to another guy. At this point of time, T.R was in full flow, deep into a tough part of our syllabus. He noticed that my friend was not paying attention (He probably was not looking at anyone else in class! Cos none of us were listening). And he got so wild that he threw his chalkpiece at him (That it hit some other guy, is a totally different story). T.R just jumped off the dais and came running towards the horrified student and asked him to stand up first. He was sooo angry that he dint know what to say (Otherwise also he doesnt know), and guess what he screamed - "You fool, take it down the board of the chalkpiece in the notebook of the!!!!! " lol. I agree that it was not word by word what he had said, but then, no one knew what he had said exactly either, not even T.R.. :-) This was the closest that we could make out, that too after a great deal of effort!

All said and done, heart of heart, he was a nice man and all of us from Crescent Engineering College were extremely thankful to him, for having added colour, to our already colourful college life!!! :-) Miss those days !!!