It's 7.00 pm. The phone rings. My mother calls out for me saying my friend A has called up. I hold the reciever for 20 seconds against my ear, put it on hold, fetch my timetable book, read out the next day's schedule and keep the phone down.
This run of events like today,occurred yesterday, last week,last month, last year n the year before that too. It began occuring from 1990 and continued till 1996. A was my classmate,neighbour and ahhh.. best friend. Before the 7 pm phone call, we were in the sandpit playing ice pice (I Spy),catch n co n stuff of the kind. A wrote the timetable along with me when 'teacher' dictated it. But the 7 pm phone would still come. A lost the paper..every year.
The turn of events that stopped this was when I had to leave town and change my school. A was no more my classmate, no more my neighbour...... still my friend but not in touch. I missed the 7 pm calls.
Then fate had more in store for me. I returned back to my old school. A was again my classmate n my friend(not my nieghbour though!). But the 7 pm phone calls din't come. A now had learnt to keep the timetable sheet carefully.
One evening, we finally spoke about the contorversial 7pm phone call.
A : My mom said I used to call you up everyday for the time table. Did I?
Me: yes!
A: I don't remember doing any such thing!
Me : * smile*
Alas.. I miss the 7 pm phone call...
2 comments:
Nice one..
Uuh...without thinking too much, I thought A was ashish ...ofcourse u dont have to deny or accept it...
but for a not-all-controversial post, u cud have mentioned expanded 'A'...he wud have felt honored to have an entire post to his doings and non-doings.
in my case, 2 callers were regular and focussed on academic matters - u know both of them ..both of them before exams...while one of them called to ask what is the syllabus i.e. what to study...while the other called to ask what is the syllabus and what is important ( what NOT to study )...any guesses !!
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