Fool Me Once ….
Nope, no shame on me. I’ll just fool you twice. :)
Girl meets Guy.
Girl decides to get engaged to Guy.
Girl announces to her Friends that she’s gonna get engaged to Guy.
What’s wrong with this picture?
That she chooses to make this announcement on April 1st, so we know it’s not true. And now we want to turn the tables so the joke’s on her. The Girl is my friend, Rachana. The Guy is, well, let’s just call him The Guy, because he’s not supposed to know he was one of the protagonists in this labyrinthine maze of lies.
Parikshit’s frantic call came around lunchtime: Hey Manas, hop on over to Owens Food Court, there’s a piece of news you should know. I bike there and the whole gang’s at the table, waiting for a toast. Then it began, the first round of “No, not me; she’ll tell you what it’s all about” with everyone refusing to say anything. Vivek got the ball rolling, pointing to Rachana, “hey, why’s your ring on the wrong finger?” Then it was out. It made partial sense, because even her mom is supposed to be here a week from today.
But Mansi, who had been at the receiving end of a prank earlier today, was in the mood for some vendetta. She and Vivek decided we should continue the prank, just switch targets — so we did some preliminary research on the Guy and found his photos online. (Mistake #1: Rachana told us what school he went to.) Then I told her that my friend Kavita actually knew the Guy. Happy as she pretended to be, now she’s telling me not to let Kavita talk to him yet.
And so it went; I called up Kavita, and explained the prank to her, and gave her a script for her role. We also roped in Parag, another friend of mine here in Blacksburg, to act the part of the Guy. Kavita was to call around 11:00p and then get the imposter Guy in a conference call.
But we didn’t need any of this. As I reached the party house, we all began insisting that we wanted to talk to the Guy, and if she didn’t let us talk, we’d get the number from Kavita. We also showed her some photos of the Guy in which Kavita was supposed to be present (but of course, she wasn’t.)
Poor Girl broke down, and our prank was over before it began. :(
“Fun and games are part of life. Otherwise work would get seriously boring,”
We realised it even more as we spent the entire day planning pranks on each other yesterday! First it was Mansi, who ended up wailing away and punching our poor Parikshit and then it was me, who almost ripped off Neeraj’s T-shirt in an attempt to retrieve my cell phone in which my “so-called fiance’s” cell number was stored…:)
I admit it was a well planned strategy by our “opponents” proving “inhone koi kacchi goliyaan nahi kheli”, but ofcourse, then there was a point when they almost fell for it too…
I must admit it was indeed a very eventful day ….a day filled with excitement, laughter, some tears and friends….and lots and lots of fun!!!
Rachana — April 2, 2005 @ 10:37 pm
Well….I admit that it was fun..but situations get confusing when the prank is regarding ‘Girl Likes Guy’ scenario.
I seriously feel that Manas should have called Kavita and let the cat out of the bag.. Then we would have got to watch some excellent fireworks from Rachana’s side. For one, Rachana ur performance is far from mindblowing..I wud never second your nomination for Lifetime Achievement awards…LOL…cos the tears never came how hard you tried…LOL…guess you shud have kept a bottle of glycerine with you…LOL…
Neways We 3 (Manas, Mansi and yours truly) had lot of fun conspiring against Rachana… Thanx to Google and Yahoo Photos…:D
Anonymous — April 3, 2005 @ 1:38 pm
LOL…its funny you thought I was crying! Infact I wasnt…the whole point was to keep you guys from getting the number…which was successful…so if acting works, who the hell requires glycerine!!! What say;)
Rachana — July 29, 2005 @ 4:25 pm