Aaaaaaand I'm back!
This post kind of got a little famous on Quora and I thought of sharing it here on my blog. It's about a few little things that really piss me off! More than irritating, it was annoying and I have absolutely no idea how shit managed to escalate so fast!!
So, sometime in 2012, I accepted a friend request from a girl on Facebook who happened to have a few mutual friends between us. Let's just call her Sonia! Assuming I had met her somewhere and just couldn't place her, I decided to get my memory refreshed with her help.
This is what happened:
And then all hell broke loose!! Here are the transcripts from that infamous conversation.
1/16, 1:43pm Neil Menon hey...
January 17, 2012
1/17, 7:46pm Sonia: heyy how r u???
1/17, 7:47pm Me hi....i'm fine.....u???
1/17, 7:54pm Sonia: how’s life going??
1/17, 7:57pm Me life's going good....umm...i'm sorry....but i can’t place u anywhere...have we met before???
January 18, 2012
1/18, 9:37am Sonia:Hey listen..i don’t want any chance from u. ok. And sorry for making friendship with u dude.u are not of my level. get lost.
1/18, 11:47am Me okay....i have no idea wot u mean...and listen...there's no need to be rude nor arrogant ok...it was a polite question i asked....whether or not i'm of your level, i don’t care!! Andn yeah...u'r the one who sent me the firend request....n i just wanted to know if we've met before....making friendship....hahahahahaha....so lame!!!!
1/18, 1:10pm Me and you don’t want any chance from me??!!! what on earth do you mean by that??!!sorry...but if that was supposed to be an insult....i'm not insulted..in fact i'm amused....i just can’t stop laughing now!!!
1/18, 4:00pm Sonia: ya i know that i had sent u request.....lekin galti to insano se hi hoti hai...so mujhse bhi ho gayi(but we humans make mistakes and I just made one).....and one more thing that you are not allowed to ask that type of question....so i’m not so lame in fact u should so shame....and you don’t a little bit that’s why you’re laughing... ..... and don’t take tension i’m just kicking off u from my friend list...i don’t need such type of rubbish friend...and now laugh again...
Here are the screenshots!
So, there you go!! This was back in 2012 and I still read this sequence of message for kicks!!
And you know what else irritates me?? Certain conversations I have with random people! I don't understand why bother messaging when you aren't really interested!
Random Girl 1: Hey, Neil. How are you? It's been so long! Bhule toh nai? (You haven't forgotten me, right?)
Me: Hey RG! Wassup! Long time, right?? Na na, I haven't forgotten you. Well, life couldn't have been better! I graduated from college and am now working as a writer in Bangalore!
(2 hours later)
RG: K! That's gr8!
Me (immediately): So, what have you been upto these days?
RG (half an hour later): nm
Me: nm? What's that? I'm sorry, I really don't get 'sms' lingo! I'm bad at this!!
RG (another half an hour later): nothing much
Me: Aaaahh! So where are you these days? Still in Delhi??
RG (an hour later): S
I guess S = Yes!!
By now I'm almost losing patience and decide to give this conversation one final shot.
Me: So, RG, last time I heard you were interning somewhere? CNN-IBN or something, right? Are you still there?
My phone stays silent for a few hours and then beeps. I check my inbox and see a her reply.
Displayed across my screen was one letter - S!
That was it for me. Maybe she was busy at work and didn't want to be disturbed. I don't know! I didn't care! So, I didn't!
No more messages were exchanged for the next five or six months.
And then she messaged again.
RG: Hey, Neil. How are you? It's been so long! How's life, yaar! What have you been upto??
Me: M f9!
Good times!
Good times!
