90. - The Dukku Chronicles😊 – 3

Welcome to the third and the concluding part where we look at more incidents during my friendship with Dukku😊.

There was a time when Dukku had to drop a scooter at his sister’s house in Jaipur.  He wanted some company during the trip as Jaipur was around 300 kms from Delhi and he didn’t want to drive the scooter himself for the entire distance.  He asked me if I can accompany him and I agreed. We decided to drive on a Saturday morning so that we can rest in Jaipur at night and then return by bus on Sunday.

He drove most of the time as I was not yet comfortable driving a two-wheeler at that time. I would have driven some 20% of the trip on the highway while he took care of the balance 80%.  During the trip, while he was driving, he was blocking many vehicles who were trying to overtake him😊.  It so happened that a truck came behind us and blew his horn asking us to move aside. Dukku being Dukku 😊, decided that he is not going to give side to the truck too😊😊.  The truck driver got so angry that he literally came so close to us to hit us with the truck!!  When Dukku felt that anytime we might be getting hit by the truck, he left the main road and tried to ride on the kutcha road just adjacent to the road.  That road was littered with stones and other debris.  Imagine the scene, both of us are desperately trying to use our legs to slow down the scooter before falling over😊😊.  Luckily, we did not fall and were able to halt the scooter after our exertion for some distance.  The truck guy roared past us by blasting his horn at full volume!!  After that Dukku kept to the extreme left lane of the road and allowed everyone to pass us😊

When we were in the college in the final year, we used to bunk several classes which were boring, by playing cricket in the college pathway.  Now this pathway was a slope.  From the 2^nd or 3^rd floor of the college, you can see and assume that some people are there in pathway but cannot be sure.  We used to play here.  Sometimes the professor would come in the 2^nd or 3^rd floor staircase and shout for us to come and attend the class😊.  We used to crouch down in the pathway so that he could not see us😊 and then continue to play after he goes off!!  Of course, luckily, we never got caught!!

There was a Sikh girl in our Computer Science class, who was called “X Kaur”.  Dukku used to tease her by calling her as “X Singh”.  For a couple of days/months, she used to say she is Kaur and not Singh.  After that she literally used to run behind him to beat him up😊.  And it was really hilarious to see Dukku running with Kaur running behind him😊!!

Whenever there was any wedding/function of my relatives, it was mostly held in Chennai.  During that time both my parents would go there to attend it.  That meant, during those periods, every afternoon, Dukku with my other college friends will be visiting my place from the college and we will be watching movies on my VCR at home.  Mostly we would be watching only horror movies like Friday the 13th, Evil Dead and so on.  Dukku always used to keep the sofa pillow in his hands instead of leaning against it.  Whenever there was a horror scene, he used to keep the pillow before his eyes so that he is not able to watch the scene😊!! Sometimes he will just tickle whoever is sitting beside him so that the guy would get distracted and shout!!  In the ensuing melee, the horror scene would have finished😊😊!!

With this the Dukku Chronicles get over.  Will add more as and when recollections throw up more incidents😊

Today’s Daffy Definition

Puberty – A period of life in which kids stop asking questions and start questioning the answers!!

PS – At last, Dukku’s son met with my son and talked to each other!!  Now it is up to them to take this forward!! Our job was just to introduce them to each other.