31. Don’t forget to take her Number

We returned with a clean sweep at Spardha in the first week of Feb and Depesh returned a broken heart. Spardha was a sports tournament organised by IT BHU Banaras for all the engineering colleges. I represented the football team while Depesh accompanied us for the throwing events in athletics. During this tournament our macho fell for a table tennis girl of BHU, I won't forget he ditched me for next three days to be with her. She too hung around with him and they went places in the campus and outside. Her name was Swati and she was in her second year. On the evening of the prize distribution Depesh gave her his email id and didn’t bother to ask hers, I don't know why. When we returned he desperately waited for her mail and waited and waited...she didn't write back. Probably he was ditched again. He was very upset,
"Yaar mere saath hi esa kyon hota hai?" he cried. I had no answer to offer him, but just another question,
“Yaar why didn't you take her number?"
He didn’t reply, just hung his head.
"At least you could have taken her email id?" I asked as I didn't understand even now why he didn't do this obvious thing. He lifted his head and replied dejected,
"Yaar I thought saali ek baar to mail likhe gi, to mail id pata chal jaye ga..." he was hopelessly sad and angry. Anyway, that was that...

Hey all you smart guys, learn from my friend’s mistake, just don’t forget to take her number…