Friday, April 10, 2009

Caution! Vomit ahead!


I remember it clearly as if it happened yesterday. One of the funniest incidents in my life, which is bound to produce a giggle from me each time i relate it. The most memorable New Years Day ever.
My cousins, Raunak(then 13) and Anuja(then 9), who reside in Wales, had come to India for their Christmas break. As is tradition, I always unfailingly take them to Ovenfresh, Shivaji Park to have pastries every time they are here, sometimes even twice. The "Incident" happened during one such trip two years ago, on January 1st, 2007. Anuja, though she was suffering from a bout of indigestion, nagged me till i relented and took her there along with Raunak. My friend Amogh decided to accompany us too.
After gorging on quite a few pastries, Anuja started squirming uneasily and said that she felt sick and a bit throw-uppy. So, we excused ourselves and I took her to the toilet(It was a unisex dingy one not lacking at all in the stink department), which was in a corridor in between the kitchen and the seating area. As we were about to enter, Anuja could contain it no longer and the pastries were back, only this time on the floor and in a semi-digested liquidy form popularly known as vomit. We jumped over it and entered the loo, where Anuja cleaned herself up. Getting out, we dodged the vomit again and were just about to leave the corridor when a heavy-set man in shorts pushed past us on his way to relieve himself. Either he wasn't paying attention or he wasn't paying attention (has to be at least), but he slipped on the vomit and slid a little in it and fell smack down in the middle of the puddle.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anuja and I were speechless with horror and uncontrollable laughter, that we were trying to fight back. We ran out of the corridor and then rushed to our table, tears of mirth streaking down our faces. It was the hardest i had ever laughed in my life. Through hysterics, we related the disaster to Amogh and Raunak who stared at us with their mouths hanging open and then burst out laughing themselves. To add to everything else, the poor guy who had just had the most humiliating incident happen to him with us as audience(though he did not know this), had been sitting at the table next to us and returned to his seat after having washed himself thoroughly(this was clearly visible from his soaked shirt and shorts). Even the waiters were smirking at him. We quickly paid the bill and cleared the hell out of there.
To this day I feel sorry for that unlucky sod and sincerely hope that he had his vision checked after that disaster(I swear that the vomit was as clearly visible as a man hole on the side of a street). However, I thank him profusely (whoever and wherever he is) for this memory as it is one of the best i have!
I know, I am mean.
ha ha.

9 comments:

Unknown said...

i am srsly saying u shud be a writer a cominc writer at that leave engg and all why waste time

Unknown said...

hahaha!!!!! poor guy...
i shud hv been der..wud hav gone mad..hehe

Mihir said...

yuck!!!!! well written though.. but i suffered from an immediate climax -> anticlimax .. the moment the story whooshed passed the delicious oven fresh pastries(mann i love em!!!) and then flushed down to the yucky vomit puddle..

another good blog from the gabblygooble..watever!!!! :)

Tanvi N said...

thnk u guys :)

Peeral said...

bechaara aadmi...i wish u had slipped on it tanvi n i shud hv been there...kitna mazza aata..hass hass ke paagal ho jaata main..hehe

Unknown said...

hahaha... write a buk tanVV...!!! too goooddd...!!! why dont such things happen wit me...!!!

Unknown said...

i mean... happen in front of me... :P

Lan said...

thats very humorous blog :) :)!! well written!!

Rohan said...

Rofl at the picture !

'Grossly humourous'!, Poor guy !

Caution: 'Cake with caution' :P

Cheers !