Teenage Nostalgia

In the growing up years, each one of us would have had a crush on someone or the other. Writing the guy's or the girl's name on the last page of all notebooks and darkening it with a pen and then the Sonu Nigam song which you heard with him/her becomes your favorite song. Then there is applesauce like I-won't-eat-until-you-eat, i-think-of-you-even-while-watching-tv, my-dad-trusts-me-a-lot, first-we(you)-need-to-settle and lots more.  

In the process of pataoing that girl or getting pataoed by that boy, there are a lot of funny things that happen right from fatal errors, miscalculations and in some cases, fights with the local goonda/dada who I'm sure, even after ten years is still standing at the end of the lane chewing Gutkha with no work to do or is driving an autorickshaw.  These things become memories for the rest of your lives. However, if you are a boy and were trying to patao a girl sometime in your life, there are these things you would have come across

• The girl has an irritating friend who wears spectacles and is mostly stoic
• This friend is allowed to go out or talk to boys but not your girl 
• Your girl's parent's need that friend's company to send her outside
• The friend is the reason why your proposal gets delayed but you will have to live with it 
• Then, you are forced to befriend her 
• Initially, you will volunteer to pay for her ice-cream, coke, movie and everything else. Later, you are forced to pay
• While passing on your message to her, she will deliver only half the message. The other half she doesn't want to
• When you finally manage to convince your girl, the friend gets jealous
• She will try to do UNGLI and most likely she will tell her parents.
• If she doesn't, the friend has turned into an insomniac and now wants a boyfriend like her best friend
• Then, you do some market research to realize that this friend has someone following her and is a guy who you hate
• You are forced to befriend and brainwash him
• A month later, all four of you go out of the city to a resort. 
• Rarely do both the relationships become a marriage. 
• If they do, good. If they don't , one or both of the pairs get separated but both guys end up as friends and have beer every weekend.

-  Deepak Karamungikar