26. Drinking and Smoking

Drinking and smoking had become like two religions in the hostel. For these two, guys always had time company money and capacity. No matter what, guys would just find a way out, for sample, consider the case of keerda. One evening I knocked on his door for tea and he sat there smoking. Over tea I confronted his habit and very enthusiastically he declared,
“Harry, here from now onwards I give up smoking!” he said and picked up his cigarette pack from the table,
“Enough of cigarettes I’ll never touch them again I pledge” he reiterated and chucked the packet out of his window. I never knew this was so easy and was very happy about the change I was able to bring about. That night someone knocked on my door at about midnight, when I opened the door cursing I saw him standing there,
“Yaar do you have a torch?”
“What? Why do you need a torch?”
“Will you help me?” he asked.
“Okay” I said and went with him holding the torch. You won’t believe me he made me search for his cigarettes in the middle of the night, in the bushes below his room where he had thrown them, and for company we had Mandi (the hostel doggy) and her pups helping us out. O god that was crazy…
After drinking people would become weird characters, Depesh became devdas and Tazzy became chunnibabu.
“Da se dil hota hai, da se dewangi hoti hai, da se Depesh bhi hota hai… ha ha ha hee hee hee”
“Asi movies nahin banani chaiye… chotte chotte bacchon par kya asar parde ga…” Depesh remarked.
“Kyon?”
“Are mummy bolengi ABC suno, to baccha bolega…
“A se apple hota hai mummy, B se bat hota hai, C se chocolate kab dogi P se promise kiya tha mummy...”
“Ha ha ha hee hee hee” yes that indeed was funny we had a good two minutes roller coaster laugh. Then Depesh yelled,
“Are o paro, kitne aadmi the?”
“Oye devdas ki aulaad, yeh to gabber ka dialogue hai…”
“Hain, gabber ka hai… ese kese… objection my lord…”Guys were real fun to be with when drunk, it was totally a different world.