This time while going home for pongal, I came across a person who is very weird. I would name him a TERRIBLE MISMATCH. This person was(unfortunately) sitting close to me in the train making my journey miserable.
At the very first look, I've almost identified that he is a krackjack with his very unusual combination of a puma track, one junglee t-shirt(i'm hundred percent sure, he would have bought it in some local market in koti) and a reebok shoe.
This hero has just returned from the US and wanted to show his US-ish style to all the unfortunate folks in the train.
An angry "Khooollll dyoooode.. chillaax"(as if he was cool by himself) was the first expression that I've heard of his. This is another mismatch, angry and chillax :) . This was when he filled up almost 3/4ths of the empty space with his 3 big suitcases and another guy was trying to pull out one of his big bags to fit his in.
After the luggage issue is settled, he bored his fellow passengers to death by uttering his supposedly unique(he feels so) US stories. :) From the day 1 of his jet lag to the last day(that's when he boarded a flight in business class), he kept on telling his stuff to everyone.
A young girl(to her bad fate) showed him her iTouch and said, "uncle see this, you can scroll, zoom soo smoothly on this." That's the end of her life. He immediately took out his iPhone and shows her that this is a much superior device than iTouch. The girl wondered why was it switched off. The kanjoos s**la replies "i've actually have roaming enabled on this. so, if I power it up and I get some calls, i would be charged." But he didnt stop there. He turned on his flight mode to avoid any incoming calls and kept on showing the unlimited number of games downloaded on his iPhone. The girl with a bitter face asked him politely "can i also download these on my device?", to which I thought "Oh dear.. you made a big blunder by asking him this."
"See actually these are all downloaded for 2-5$ each, that is 100-250Rs. per game. These are the ones which are better than the freely available ones. To download you should also pay the money and install them on your device" is what he said. Actually I've missed out his lengthy installation instructions to not bore you'll :))
Suddenly, he gets a call(not in his iPhone. hero maintained 2 phones) from his father who is supposed to receive him at vizag. The mismatch wanted to tell that he is in coach B1. But since his father couldn't get that "B" properly, he repeated "Dad it's B .. B .. B for ahhhh" he started thinking. I thought in my mind "abbe, if you dont tell B for Bombay, you will be murdered." To my disappointment he said "ahh yeah.. it's B for Boston." No, B for your blood... i thought.
All his night was with his laptop watching some English(obviously) movie. I wish he could have his headphones on.
Though I had a miserable journey through out the night, I was lucky enough to not see him again in the station the next morning when I left. That was a happy start for my Pongal, i felt :) and as expected, this time I had a very happy pongal :)
