Of Slippers

What's the weirdest thing rain's done to you? I was walking along the SAC road one fine Thursday evening (the day the endsems ended!)... the day was anything but fine, what with cyclone Nisha literally banging away all night long. The SAC road (err... road from now on) is one of the lowest-lying areas in the whole insti. Currently, that means waist deep water. That also means water flowing downhill with river-like force.

So we're walking along, trying to get to CCD in one piece so that we can speak to the guys who we hope will be arranging Paintball for us at Saarang. Juwa: "Yaar SAC road se chalte hain". Okay, so we start walking. The water gets into our slippers; its fun! The water gets till our ankles; its fun! The water nears our knees; its fun!

Then, we get to the uphill part, where water's flowing down at us. Not only is it hard to walk up, the current is tugging at my slippers. And then, without warning, my right foot hits mud. Why? My slipper's decided it loves the current more than it loves me, and has followed it into the IITM wilderness (which looked then like a big, random lake just placed there).

Picture the situation. My right slipper's floating downstream, its pouring cats and elephants, I have an umbrella in hand, and I'm chasing my slipper. I try to stick the umbrella in front of it in the hope that it'll stop. And guess what? It does! For a few seconds, at least. Then, the umbrella decides to fold into its upside down position, and the slipper goes past.

That alone was annoying enough. But while running after one slipper, the other one decides to come off my left foot and follow its partner downstream. No doubt they're making love in one of the insti swamps right now. Make me godfather, guys..

I did eventually make it to CCD.. barefoot, soaked, and extremely annoyed. At least the sight of the exceedingly cute Planet Adventure representative was uplifting.

PS: Put our writeup back on the Saarang website, ya bozos