9: Who was she staring at?

"She is staring at me", Abishek said

"Nin mukha ge, ashtondu scene illa", Arjun replied.

(Literal translation: Your face, not that much scene :). The meaning: She can do much better than your face.)

            Nandhan interfered and said, "Dude, I think she is staring at me". Chetan and I burst out of laughing. This was the condition the guys were in.

            Out of all the beautiful damsels, one of them seemed like she was staring at one of the guys from our group. The argument, “whom was she staring at?” We still do not know the answer to that question even to this day. Everyone felt like she was staring at them, it was not like they would go and ask her out. None of them had the guts to do it, but some sort of childish satisfaction that a hot chick is staring at them. We argued on and on for the next couple of hours. At the end of the argument, each one believed that she was staring at him. That made all of us happy, so we stuck to that thought.

            That night we ended up coming home tired and hungry. We quickly gobbled up some food and were all ready for a game of cards. We played the 13 card game also known as "Rammi". The concept of the game is that, one needs to make sure that all the 13 cards given to him are in a set. A set consists of minimum 3 cards. Two kinds of sets are compulsory, a sequence where one needs to have a minimum of 3 consecutive rank cards with the same suit and a triplet which consists of at least three same rank cards with unique suit on each of them. The player had the freedom to arrange the remaining 7 cards either as a triplet or as a sequence. In order to view the joker which is chosen randomly for each game, a player needs to show a legal sequence to other players thus giving him the right to view the joker. Without this sequence a player cannot proceed to make the other sets.

            There are always some characters in a group to whom you narrate an entire story and they bamboozle with you with such dumb and basic questions that you feel like just landing a punch on them. It’s like you narrate the entire Trojan war at the end of which he/she asks you questions like, who is Achilles? Or who is Helen?

            As I was aware of the game rules, I explained it to all the guys who didn't know the rules of the game. All the guys listened to all the rules with a lot of concentration and we began the game. We were 5 minutes into the game and Abishek with a certain assertiveness said, "I wish to see the joker!" I was impressed as it was his first game and he got the hang of it real soon. So I asked him to flash the cards to cross check if it was a legal set. When he flashed the cards, I was dumbfounded and perplexed. I came out of it only when Nandhan spit out the water from his mouth unable to control the hilariousness of the moment. :) :).

            Abishek flashed a "hybrid" of sets, a sequence and triplet. Instead of flashing three consecutive ranks with the same suits, he ended up with three consecutive ranks with all different suits. We were all rolling on the floor laughing at this unique set created by Abishek and took quite some time to recover from it. Abishek was quite embarrassed  but he was a real good sport. He just laughed it away and gave us 10 minutes of rib ticking laughter by the act of his.