Reflections from the pensieve

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.