While I write this, I can feel the mad rush within me to relive those great days in this place I call “home”. Well, it’s the obvious feeling that you get after spending 72% of your life with this institute. The funny part however is that when I look back at what I enjoyed the most in school was at “nonsense”. The term “nonsense” out here would refer to incidents that had no distant relation with sanity. A laugh riot which followed after every such incident would be bought under control by a curfew laid by the teachers, who themselves, I guess, enjoyed every bit of the incident. Thus, it gives reason enough for this weird title which also means – Nonsense.
To start of with, the ingredients that formed the perfect recipe for Gobbledygook would be a funny character, which I’m sure every class even today has it. Then it would be an occasion of serial bomb-blasts, which are, a teacher (a must have in class), an irate class and the unforgettable remarks in the calendar. When a teaspoon of each is added to a boring lecture, and garnished with smart comments by both the teacher and the students, I guarantee the best dish ever which can be enjoyed with generous dollops of laughter.
One such incident still preserved well in my brains (if at all I have any), would be, what I refer to as the “Slap-Stick Incident”. A classic case where my Std 9th class teacher, Mrs. Neelam Sharma, a caring, sweet and a patient lady, among my favorites in school, was as angry as a cut snake, and me being the prime accused. I still remember her charging towards me like an angry elephant and was determined to slap as hard as Tendulkar would to a poor ball. The cream of the joke was, I was determined not to get slapped, and the class was watching who wins. The result anyways was both of us won because she fulfilled her goal and I fulfilled mine. The moment her palm neared my cheek, I squatted down and the funny character like mentioned above tasted with his cheek. The expression on his face would give Mona Lisa a run for her money. Imagine being slapped for no reason, slapped hard. The look on his face was surprised, hurt, angry and comic at the same time. The funny person was this mate called Rohit Gupta who had the capability to make a scorned woman laugh her ribs off. After he was slapped, being stick-thin, he took a flight after the impact and landed a few feet away. The whole class surely enjoyed this moment to the fullest and our roaring laughter echoed in the whole floor. The follow up was, all of us being asked to stand on our benches, even a few taller ones because of whom, the fans were switched off. To add insult to the injury all of us were given remarks in our calendars that read “was distracting the class”. Now if you scratch your head deep down, you’ll realize, the gobbledygook here was, that if everyone was distracting everyone…….hahaha.
To sum it up (I’m sure you desperately want me to) I’d quote Horace “Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant.” These are the days when we have Right to Nonsense as our fundamental right. Thus, enjoy this to the fullest.
To start of with, the ingredients that formed the perfect recipe for Gobbledygook would be a funny character, which I’m sure every class even today has it. Then it would be an occasion of serial bomb-blasts, which are, a teacher (a must have in class), an irate class and the unforgettable remarks in the calendar. When a teaspoon of each is added to a boring lecture, and garnished with smart comments by both the teacher and the students, I guarantee the best dish ever which can be enjoyed with generous dollops of laughter.
One such incident still preserved well in my brains (if at all I have any), would be, what I refer to as the “Slap-Stick Incident”. A classic case where my Std 9th class teacher, Mrs. Neelam Sharma, a caring, sweet and a patient lady, among my favorites in school, was as angry as a cut snake, and me being the prime accused. I still remember her charging towards me like an angry elephant and was determined to slap as hard as Tendulkar would to a poor ball. The cream of the joke was, I was determined not to get slapped, and the class was watching who wins. The result anyways was both of us won because she fulfilled her goal and I fulfilled mine. The moment her palm neared my cheek, I squatted down and the funny character like mentioned above tasted with his cheek. The expression on his face would give Mona Lisa a run for her money. Imagine being slapped for no reason, slapped hard. The look on his face was surprised, hurt, angry and comic at the same time. The funny person was this mate called Rohit Gupta who had the capability to make a scorned woman laugh her ribs off. After he was slapped, being stick-thin, he took a flight after the impact and landed a few feet away. The whole class surely enjoyed this moment to the fullest and our roaring laughter echoed in the whole floor. The follow up was, all of us being asked to stand on our benches, even a few taller ones because of whom, the fans were switched off. To add insult to the injury all of us were given remarks in our calendars that read “was distracting the class”. Now if you scratch your head deep down, you’ll realize, the gobbledygook here was, that if everyone was distracting everyone…….hahaha.
To sum it up (I’m sure you desperately want me to) I’d quote Horace “Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant.” These are the days when we have Right to Nonsense as our fundamental right. Thus, enjoy this to the fullest.
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