A lesson well learnt!!!!!!!!

It was June 1992, I had just entered my third standard class. We had shifted to a new place-ganapathy nagar. I joined a new school. though my face looked calm, i was always up to something....mischievousness was always at the back of my mind.

Just two weeks into classes, we had free hour in the noon....It is really a boon in those times to get a free hour. Yup in my school, u cannot find a free hour in the timetable. luckily for us, the staff for the period was on leave and their was a miss in assigning an alternate staff for us. Come free time, and kids are bound to be jungle lites :):)

we started chatting, and eventually it broke into a game within the class. some played sitting in their desk, while some monkeys started jumping from bench to bench. Me and a pal sudhakar, were sitting watching everything. we were not interested in these silly games of sitting and playing nor could we afford to jump from bench to bench...yup we had enough fat to restrain us from even thinking about it....

I started tapping the bench gently in a rhythm and it was well acknowledged by a similar tap from him. OH boy!!! now i had a company and found a game of my taste....

We started tapping the bench varying our phase and rhythm...people started to take notice of us and we became aware. A bit of fans and our energy level got boosted and we knew nothing of what we were doing....

As though Beethoven and Mozart were competing for pride, we started tapping the bench louder..that was the start of trouble for us!!!!! It went to such an extent i lifted the entire bench and pounded it on floor twice which was rightly acknowledged by him. Our audiences were awestruck while people in the office were irritated:):)

Came our PT sir, who was portrayed as a hooligan (definitely not a youth!!!), entered the scene....since we were fighting for our pride in front of our audiences, we took no notice of the surroundings and pounded the bench twice,thrice....it went on...all the while he was watching...when he knew the next time would be the count of 5, he interrupted the show!!!!We knew we were caught!!!! Maybe that's why elders said,

"When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom"

we were caught red handed. A tsunami raised very high in my stomach and i felt like puking!!!!!!Our legs started to tremble, a two minute walk to the office room seemed ages...Our awestruck audience were so entertained that there were a lot of giggles:):)

We marched to office room, and there we were asked to sit outside...all the while i kept my calm,

the minute i sat there a Niagara emerged out of my eyes....and my friend was no exception....

we sat there and i guess we were crying for 20 odd minutes. Then our hooligan came in and asked us not to repeat it and left us home!!!!!! oh boy!!! What a lesson, i learnt on that day, what ever it takes always work in the background and never go public!!!!!!!!!!:):):)