A common sight that you see outside a movie theater, especially if the movie is brand new or super-hit is people selling tickets in black. I've purchased tickets that way 2-3 times in the past, never did i experience what i did today.
Normal day to begin with. We went just in time for the movie only to see house-full board at the ticket counter. And, the guy at the counter said 'you should've come before 2 minutes'. Sigh! Wondering what to do we look around only to see mere baap pehle aap playing in the next theater. Throwing one another an expression of disgust we waited for don't know what. After a wait of around 30 minutes, we gave up.
We finally started walking out which is when there were these people who were chanting 'balcony balcony'. On being asked how much, he said '100 rupees madam'. My friend very smartly asked '100 rupees for 2 tickets?' (I couldn't suppress a grin because I knew (so did she) that the tickets costed 65 bucks apiece) . There began the bargaining. We said we were ready to pay him 160. He dismissed the idea without even considering our beseeching looks. With heavy hearts we began tracing our steps back to where we parked our vehicle. The guy who earlier said no to 160 rupees came running towards us and said 'give me 160 and take these tickets, the show is about to start'. We couldn't belive our eyes, readily gave the amount and walked inside the theater.
We went in the theater, the guy nicely tore our tickets, and then we happily went to occupy our seats and we found 2 other people already sitting. The guy who shows people to their seats asked us for our stubs and verified with those people and saw that they had the same seat numbers. He asked us how much we paid for these tickets. We said '80 rupees'. He grinned making us look worse by the minute. He later came and said ' these are tickets for the morning show'. We were stumped, felt extremely stupid and walked out hurriedly(with one half of the ticket) in a hope to find the guy who sold us the tickets. Hah! Like he'd lurk around, wait for us to come yell at him or whatever. End of story? No, not so soon.
Now that we didn't have any other option, feeling awfully cheated we walked towards the parking lot which is when we were approached by 2 people. One of them told me ' I want two tickets please give them to me'. The other one said 'no, no don't give him both, give me one'. The 1st man had already snatched the tickets from my hand, oh they weren't even tickets just the stubs, thrust 150 bucks in my hand and left in a jiffy. I was so shocked when he asked me for the tickets, even more shocked with how quickly it all happened and I had the 150 rupees in my hand. I still am very puzzled with the whole thing. There is something very wrong. But we were tensed-happy that we got our money back. All sorts of things started reeling in my head. What if that money was fake? What if it were some kind of a nasty business that we got ourselves into? Who was that man? Well, you know..
How strange do you think it is?
Friday, June 20, 2008
Friday, May 30, 2008
Make new friends
but keep the old.
One is silver
the other gold.
Mim, from The Guy Next Door
I dunno why i got reminded of that now.
Change is good, but how good is the question.
I've already blogged about how things have changed so much. Nothing is gonna be the same again. The people, the circle of friends, the hanging out part, the classes you attend and the people that you attend with, nothing.
Somehow at this point of time it just doesn't seen right, Birla uncle take away one entire year from the college life that we can have. Early goodbyes, work, money, project, intern is what these holidays have been about. It's not the just-lazing-around holidays. When do you have ps? Where are you planning to stay? What company? How much does it pay? When'll you come to Bangalore (or Goa)? Ah, I just wanna not go through all this a year before it actually should happen. Anyway, I just wanted my mind off this thing for a while so the post :) . For those of you who are going for ps, good luck and for the rest of you, enjoy the last (or the 2nd last) sem in college :)
Auf Wiedersehen!
P.S.- This will probably be my last post before ps. One or two of those stupid questions in my head might come up :P
P.P.S- I love that book ! :)
but keep the old.
One is silver
the other gold.
Mim, from The Guy Next Door
I dunno why i got reminded of that now.
Change is good, but how good is the question.
I've already blogged about how things have changed so much. Nothing is gonna be the same again. The people, the circle of friends, the hanging out part, the classes you attend and the people that you attend with, nothing.
Somehow at this point of time it just doesn't seen right, Birla uncle take away one entire year from the college life that we can have. Early goodbyes, work, money, project, intern is what these holidays have been about. It's not the just-lazing-around holidays. When do you have ps? Where are you planning to stay? What company? How much does it pay? When'll you come to Bangalore (or Goa)? Ah, I just wanna not go through all this a year before it actually should happen. Anyway, I just wanted my mind off this thing for a while so the post :) . For those of you who are going for ps, good luck and for the rest of you, enjoy the last (or the 2nd last) sem in college :)
Auf Wiedersehen!
P.S.- This will probably be my last post before ps. One or two of those stupid questions in my head might come up :P
P.P.S- I love that book ! :)
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Toothpaste theory
Are you like "what the hell!!" ?
What do you think it might be?
How close do you think you can come to the actual theory? :P
Well, tell me what you think it might be, i'll make gow post abt the whole thing (it's her theory!:))
Cheersssss!!
What do you think it might be?
How close do you think you can come to the actual theory? :P
Well, tell me what you think it might be, i'll make gow post abt the whole thing (it's her theory!:))
Cheersssss!!
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Err what?! :O
Few shocking things i've seen on tv in the recent past-
On some mtv programme on being asked who wrote the national song- the girl replied Subhash Chandra Bose. thats not all, she dint seem embarrassed or anything on saying something as foolish as that! What do these ppl learn in school?
More famous mtv roadies - qsn- whos the president of India? How can a person not know the president of his/her own country?
Answers that came up- Manmohan Singh, APJ Abdul Kalam, Sushma (I know its a lady but dunno the name.. i mean how on earth!).
Channel V Iq- people couldn't identify Pratibha Patil but most ppl could identify Esha Deol.. Tch tch
If this is the literate population of the country, we seriously are in grave danger! :-\
Oh this is something worse (happened in the US, pheww)- On the show beauty and the geek when someone was asked when the next presidential election is gonna be held, someone said 2006!!!!!
Peace!
On some mtv programme on being asked who wrote the national song- the girl replied Subhash Chandra Bose. thats not all, she dint seem embarrassed or anything on saying something as foolish as that! What do these ppl learn in school?
More famous mtv roadies - qsn- whos the president of India? How can a person not know the president of his/her own country?
Answers that came up- Manmohan Singh, APJ Abdul Kalam, Sushma (I know its a lady but dunno the name.. i mean how on earth!).
Channel V Iq- people couldn't identify Pratibha Patil but most ppl could identify Esha Deol.. Tch tch
If this is the literate population of the country, we seriously are in grave danger! :-\
Oh this is something worse (happened in the US, pheww)- On the show beauty and the geek when someone was asked when the next presidential election is gonna be held, someone said 2006!!!!!
Peace!
alien kid?
whos this alien kid oink keeps talking about?
is there some hidden code that we are supposed to decipher?
does it refer to oink/any of us in the next birth? :P
am i the only person who didn't understand what he's trying to say?
is everyone else pretending to understand just cuz they dont wanna make a fool of themselves? :-\
too much star wars effect or something?
Cheers!
R2-D2 :P
is there some hidden code that we are supposed to decipher?
does it refer to oink/any of us in the next birth? :P
am i the only person who didn't understand what he's trying to say?
is everyone else pretending to understand just cuz they dont wanna make a fool of themselves? :-\
too much star wars effect or something?
Cheers!
R2-D2 :P
mind block?
has it ever happened that you cant think at all?
even if you wanted to real bad ..
oh during an exam, your mind just goes blank and all you can remember is that it comes on this part of so and so page but nothing relevant to the answer comes to your head!?
ah this mind block(as i call it) also happens when you want something to happen so desperately and it doesnt! (you all know what i'm talking abt :-\) and this post which comes as a result of all that!
even if you wanted to real bad ..
oh during an exam, your mind just goes blank and all you can remember is that it comes on this part of so and so page but nothing relevant to the answer comes to your head!?
ah this mind block(as i call it) also happens when you want something to happen so desperately and it doesnt! (you all know what i'm talking abt :-\) and this post which comes as a result of all that!
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