Monday, May 4, 2009

Close Encounters Of The F****** Kind

Inspired by the undaunted efforts of navin,i decided to call up the admissions office of IIM-L today.Here's a brief transcript of what followed.The characters involved are Moi,Operator(appu),Admissions Officer(AO)

Moi:Hello Sir,can you connect me to the admissions office please.
appu:Kya?
Moi(slightly tensed):Admissions office please?
appu:kya bol rahe ho?

Realisation dawned on me that this was Mulayam's home town,so switched to the vernacular.

Moi:Kya me admissions office se bat kar sakta hoon
appu(satisfied with my hinglish) connects me to admissions office.

AO:hello?
Has anyone noticed that irrespective of the mother tongue everyone uses hello when responding to a phone call?anyways
Moi:IIM-L ka revised list kab release hoga?
AO:revised list kya hota he?
Moi:stunned silence
AO:hmm kya tu waitlist puch rahe ho
Moi was irritated now.Waitlist is something you release with the first admission list,now you relese a revised list based on the acceptance of offers.
Moi:han..woh kab ayega
AO:Pata nahi...woh ayega magar confirmed kuch nahi bata sakta hoon
Moi[What???]:Waitlist ayega ki sab seats fill hogaya?
AO:Pata nahi..Dean admissions nehi he...Pata nahi kab list niklega

I was really irritated by now and one of my split personalities,the one with a really foul mouth and derives immense pleasure by accusing someone of all kinds of incestous relationships in a variety of languages,was threating to burst out.So in order not to jeopardise the teny tiny possibility that i can escape this mind numbing job i thanked the guy and ended the call.

1 comment:

Navin said...

Your "Hinglish" is truly hilarious ! And now you can probably guess why the "madrasi south Indians" make it to L in smaller numbers, probably the preferred language of communication is Hindi !