Cable Karan Koothu ! a.k.a. Cable Guy Fiasco ! (Engliphish)

This is one amazing incident that happened during my college days. The hostel in my engineering college could be best described as a concenration camp. The facilities were so crappy that Hitler himself would have approved this shit-hole. Some of the stduents could not survive the camp conditions and they would slowly move out and stay in nearby residential areas. I accepted defeat during my second year and me along with Thatha and SuKu moved out into a small house nearby. By this time, the foolish notions that we would learn quality courses and become "real" engineers was also quickly dispelled. After giving up on academics and by moving out of camp, we suddenly had so much time in hand and the freedom to do what we wanted.

The engineering brains in me and Thatha started to work and we came up with this brilliant idea of buying a TV and to put cable. This might sound really trivial now, but in those days(making me sound old) this was shunned by society and out of the question as students were only supposed to study. Getting caught by our parents meant, BACK TO CAMP, as we had promised that the very point of moving out was to concenrate and study better as we were getting distracted in the hostel ;).We put some major fight and after saving up, we got ourselves a small 19' color TV. We could afford even this because of the major discount we got on the TV as it had a nice dent like the scar on Harry Potter's forehead. Hey, but who cares, we now had a color TV and thats all that mattered.

The third guy with us Suku, was not exactly receptive to the idea of the TV and put a major scene. So, just me and thatha decided to share the Tv cost and the monthly cable bill. Suku ended up watching more TV than us after intially giving us a lot of gyan. The problem really came when Suku's father was going to visit us for a few days. We tried real hard to foil his visit, but all in vain. We then disconnected the TV and cable wire and locked it up in the loft(these lofts are a life saver). So, for the first day of uncle's visit, everything went to plan. It was the second day evening now and uncle was leaving the next morning. We were playing cricket in the mottai madi and suddenly we heard a lot of noise comming from downstairs.

The cable karan had come to collect his monthly dues and was having a heated argument with Suku's father. Everything around me just froze for second and there were just about a zillion imgaes flashing across my mind.....

Uncle thrashing Suku right in front of us...

Me standing before my parents and my father going nuts at me after hearing abt this and declaring for the "Nth" time that I will never achieve anything in life and Orupadavaemataenu ...........blah blah...

and worst of all I am back in CAMP...that was brutal


and that is when I came back to reality and listened to what was going down below.

Uncle: Intha vetla cable kidayathu pa, thappana addressku vandhurka

Cable guy: Illa saar, masa masam inga than vasool panraen saar.

Uncle: Idhu padikara college pasanga irrukara vedu pa, inga cable illa pa (felt like someone just slapped us)

Cable guy(just lost his cool): Nan enna kaenaya, adhan solraen illa indha vootla cable irukku nu.

Uncle (getting pissed too): Olla vaya, nan vena katraen pathuko, inga TV yae kidayathunu evalvu tharava solradhu onakku.

The situation looked totally lost and I could feel the end nearing. Me and Thatha luckily made eye contact from the mottai-madi with the cable guy and he recognized us. The next words from his mouth would have been "Call those boys and ask them itself" before which we made one final move which came so naturally(thanks to our politicians).

We folded both our hands together with an apology written all over our faces. And then I sliightly waved my hand(in a gesture asking him to leave). The cable guy got the cue and was very gracious and helped us out. He apologized to Uncle saying, maybe he did get the wrong house and he just left. We just could not believe how close we had come to getting caught.

All thanks to the magnanimous Cable Guy, I still owe you one.