The story till now
Upon seeing the comments on a friends Facebook relationship status and upon deciphering the possible deeper meanings I decided to unearth the mystery myself. I created a lie and let my friends do the rest. The spark was beginning to turn into a widespread flame and I had absolutely no idea what I was going to end up in.
Here s the next chapter.
friend 3 is still over the moon on my engagement, apparently very inquisitive about my new innings. So she pings me
friend 3: hi hope everything is good at your end. So what plans of Onam.
me: nothing much
friend 3: what nothing much arent you going to your future inlaws house for Onam
ah thank you friend 3 for helping me create another bigger lie so grateful, here you go
me: oh yes I m how did you know?
friend 3: lo ye bhi koi poochne waali baat hain, its logical man
who the hell calls this a logic
me: ah yes how did I forget to reason
friend 3: so when are you declaring the news to all our friends
me: m waiting for my inlaws to give me a green signal, since there are those religious impediments
friend 3: I m dying to tell others, if you dont tell dem soon I ll
me: arre wait wait dont tell others, let me personally tell them, people dont take it nicely when they hear such news from a 3rd party rather than directly, you know relations can be spoiled
friend 3: but can I tell atleast x, y, z about this engagement
me: no, I ll personally tell them
friend 3: when
me: depends
friend 3: so please let me tell them then, I ll make sure that they dont feel bad
me: no
friend 3: please
me: noooooooo
friend 3: please please please
me: ok
friend 3: dont worry I have already told them :) :)
voilà the lie worked
me: why did you tell them even when I asked you to caution
friend 3: ah that is because I m sooo happy for you I wanted to share with everyone
Yea right, "happy for me", I would ve rather accepted the real logic (now imagining
me: why did you tell them even when I asked you to caution
friend 3: ah that is because I cant keep anything in my stomach, I have to blurt it out)
friend 3: so your church thing still an impediment
me: somethings cant be helped you see, especially with inter-religious marriages there are bound to be issues and church is very staunch on such issues.
friend 3: oh yes I know
friend 3: I heard your parents were in Bangalore some time back
me: yes who told you
friend 3: ofcourse friend 1
me: awesome
now this awesome was a sarcastic one, one to highlight the communication network between same gender individuals, in appreciation of how a gossip actually builds and how small innocuous developments in life are interpreted to have deeper meanings when they are not at all. Anyways back to the discussion
friend 3: so that is the reason why there were here
me: what reason
friend 3: duhhhhhh, for your engagement man, where's your logic
me: awesome
now this awesome was a really appreciative one, for creating something out of nothing, I had actually never thought I should have got this angle right, the parents one. How did I miss this? Anyways thanks to friend 3 now even my parents are part of this. Sorry dad, sorry mom. Thank you friend 3 for enlightening me to this insight and now that you have led me to this enlightenment I shall make most of it.
me: yea they came down for engagement
friend 3: so where the snaps
me: madam it takes time to develop it, create an album and courier it, where's your logic (friend 3: style)
friend 3: oh yes :) sorry but do send me one
me: ofcourse yes, you will be the first to get it
and after a lot of blah blah
friend 3: me going take care, have a great Onam at your fiancée s place
me: thanks, Happy Onam to you too
I was happy that my plan was working perfectly and I knew I had the right person doing the job for me. Would my experiment be a success, would I be able to unearth the true meaning behind my friends' happiness or would I end up like 2012 oblivious to the dangers but sitting on a sure shot disaster, this only time will tell. But for the time being I was enjoying the pseudo relationship status. Thanks friends you have made "a friend in deed is a friend indeed" hold true.
To be continued.........
A: suna joseph ki shaadi ho rhi hain
B: aisa kya mujhe to nahi pata
A: haan mujhe bhi nahi pata tha lekin pukki khabar hain
Once I stumbled upon what I saw was a friends status message on Facebook, mr xyz is in a relationship. The fact that caught my attention was the number of comments I saw on this status message. It was humungous, from congrats to who is the lucky girl, whats she doing. Just then another fact dawned on me this guy never managed to get more than 3 comments ever before on whatever he used to post on FB. Not that I had the free time to scrutinize the number of comments on his post or others but twas far too irrestible to ignore. So I sat down to think why are people so interested in your relationship status. Is it the feeling, hey look the looser got one too, or one is really happy that another is hitched, or is it the precursor of a gossip chain a vicious circle of events where the subject is in true trouble and the original story (here the marriage gossip) gets a 180 degree. One another benefit the chain gives is open up the closed conversation between 2 individuals who havent spoken in ages.
So now after setting the context I decided to get my piece of attention, not that my posts on FB dont attract comments, they do and much more than the number of comments mentioned above. But a topic like this needs to be explored for the fun and risks involved (which I ll expln later). So it happened one day when my friend calls up on friendship day
frnd: Happy frndship day
me: u too
blah blah
blah blah
me: did I tell u tht tht I got engaged
frnd: wht????? (I cud literally hear the question marks, and yes absolutely the same number of them as shown here)
frnd: bt u din tell me
me: yes it happened so soon
frnd: ok
frnd: so whats her name
now u need to be aware while playing a prank that u never give out the imaginary person's name, cause in this technologically advanced generation finding key details are so easy leave alone the name. The case here would be: I would tell an imaginary name, the first thing the friend wud do is go to a social media site check the name in friends list, and if the friend finds it, soon there would be additional researches, any recent scraps, any recent congrats in mine or the fake fiancees page, any testimonials one wud ve written for the other (now this isnt my illusion, believe me its real, the research goes much much deeper than you can imagine)
me: ermmm naam jaankar kya karogi (filmy style)
frnd: phir bhi
me: rehne do
frnd: bt itni jaldi engagement, na koi khabar na kuch
me: haan yaar complications thi so jaldi karni padi, "plz dnt discuss with anyone"
I stressed upon the last quoted words with as much strength I had.
So I finally I did manage to end the conversation without giving friend the name
I told another mutual friend about this prank. Now here starts the real fun, the very nxt day I get a mail from another friend (friend 3 here)
"kya yaar sirf friend 1 and friend 2 hi tumaare dost hain, kidding ('I understand what kidding means in this context'), anyways congrats."
Voila the fake news just needed 2 days to travel from central India to South India and that too after stressing on those key words: plz dont discuss with anyone. Scientific fact is light travels faster than sound, but when its a rumor the fact does take a deviation for sound always does travel faster than light in this case. So starts my second round of more sophisticated lies, only this time I had to play it more safely.
friend 3: so man congrats
me: thanks
friend 3: kya yaar bataya bhi nahi
me: pehle ye batao aapko kisne bataya
friend 3: friend 1 ne
sigh these girls can never keep something in their stomach
me: oh, haan yaar things got complicated so had to
friend 3: accha aisa kya
me: yep the girl is a hindu and u c intereligion marriages r such a problem, the girls side wanted to make it a private function attended by just family members and they dont want to announce it until things are sorted out at the temple and church level
I was patting myself for such a brave and outrageous lie and just about then friend 3 drops a bombshell. Friend 3 doesn't ask for a name but something which was very very logical.
friend 3: to phir engagement pics kahan hain
phans gya
me: ermmm haan haan engagement pics abhi develop hone gyi hain. ll get it in some days. u c the photographers dont give the digital copy of the pics
To my surprise she bought my lie
friend 3: oh ok mujhe bhi ek bhejna
Within 2 days I had pulled off another stunt, to convince a girl that too within no time, either she was not interested in what was happening or I was good or whatever.
To be continued.........
All characters mentioned in this post are not fictional at all and are very much part of the real life of this blogger, though the blogger is not to be believed at all for his posts. Lies are incorporated highly into this blog to keep the fun part intact.
B: aisa kya mujhe to nahi pata
A: haan mujhe bhi nahi pata tha lekin pukki khabar hain
Once I stumbled upon what I saw was a friends status message on Facebook, mr xyz is in a relationship. The fact that caught my attention was the number of comments I saw on this status message. It was humungous, from congrats to who is the lucky girl, whats she doing. Just then another fact dawned on me this guy never managed to get more than 3 comments ever before on whatever he used to post on FB. Not that I had the free time to scrutinize the number of comments on his post or others but twas far too irrestible to ignore. So I sat down to think why are people so interested in your relationship status. Is it the feeling, hey look the looser got one too, or one is really happy that another is hitched, or is it the precursor of a gossip chain a vicious circle of events where the subject is in true trouble and the original story (here the marriage gossip) gets a 180 degree. One another benefit the chain gives is open up the closed conversation between 2 individuals who havent spoken in ages.
So now after setting the context I decided to get my piece of attention, not that my posts on FB dont attract comments, they do and much more than the number of comments mentioned above. But a topic like this needs to be explored for the fun and risks involved (which I ll expln later). So it happened one day when my friend calls up on friendship day
frnd: Happy frndship day
me: u too
blah blah
blah blah
me: did I tell u tht tht I got engaged
frnd: wht????? (I cud literally hear the question marks, and yes absolutely the same number of them as shown here)
frnd: bt u din tell me
me: yes it happened so soon
frnd: ok
frnd: so whats her name
now u need to be aware while playing a prank that u never give out the imaginary person's name, cause in this technologically advanced generation finding key details are so easy leave alone the name. The case here would be: I would tell an imaginary name, the first thing the friend wud do is go to a social media site check the name in friends list, and if the friend finds it, soon there would be additional researches, any recent scraps, any recent congrats in mine or the fake fiancees page, any testimonials one wud ve written for the other (now this isnt my illusion, believe me its real, the research goes much much deeper than you can imagine)
me: ermmm naam jaankar kya karogi (filmy style)
frnd: phir bhi
me: rehne do
frnd: bt itni jaldi engagement, na koi khabar na kuch
me: haan yaar complications thi so jaldi karni padi, "plz dnt discuss with anyone"
I stressed upon the last quoted words with as much strength I had.
So I finally I did manage to end the conversation without giving friend the name
I told another mutual friend about this prank. Now here starts the real fun, the very nxt day I get a mail from another friend (friend 3 here)
"kya yaar sirf friend 1 and friend 2 hi tumaare dost hain, kidding ('I understand what kidding means in this context'), anyways congrats."
Voila the fake news just needed 2 days to travel from central India to South India and that too after stressing on those key words: plz dont discuss with anyone. Scientific fact is light travels faster than sound, but when its a rumor the fact does take a deviation for sound always does travel faster than light in this case. So starts my second round of more sophisticated lies, only this time I had to play it more safely.
friend 3: so man congrats
me: thanks
friend 3: kya yaar bataya bhi nahi
me: pehle ye batao aapko kisne bataya
friend 3: friend 1 ne
sigh these girls can never keep something in their stomach
me: oh, haan yaar things got complicated so had to
friend 3: accha aisa kya
me: yep the girl is a hindu and u c intereligion marriages r such a problem, the girls side wanted to make it a private function attended by just family members and they dont want to announce it until things are sorted out at the temple and church level
I was patting myself for such a brave and outrageous lie and just about then friend 3 drops a bombshell. Friend 3 doesn't ask for a name but something which was very very logical.
friend 3: to phir engagement pics kahan hain
phans gya
me: ermmm haan haan engagement pics abhi develop hone gyi hain. ll get it in some days. u c the photographers dont give the digital copy of the pics
To my surprise she bought my lie
friend 3: oh ok mujhe bhi ek bhejna
Within 2 days I had pulled off another stunt, to convince a girl that too within no time, either she was not interested in what was happening or I was good or whatever.
To be continued.........
All characters mentioned in this post are not fictional at all and are very much part of the real life of this blogger, though the blogger is not to be believed at all for his posts. Lies are incorporated highly into this blog to keep the fun part intact.
