Memoirs

The Prison Break Stunt

It had been almost half an hour standing in an interminable line….and we had not even moved an inch ahead ….Even the ‘gals quota’ (that has helped us so much in such tough times :P) wasn’t working……Atif just got finished with his first song for the evening and we were still in the queue, waiting to get in…..dying to get his glimpse and enjoy the live concert by getting in the convo grounds…So, we started contemplating on ways to get inside….Bribing…..Wheedling…begging…shedding crocodile tears in front of some security in charge….and what not did we think of!! But in the end, the three ardent followers of prison break (or rather Scofield :D) could settle with nothing but jumping over the barbed wires (the PB style :D) through the back side of the audi.
Kittu was the first one to jump over it successfully, Nisha followed her…and now it was my turn..Just when I was standing on the barbed wires ready to jump on the other side, we heard a loud angry voice “NO….STOP…DON’T!!!”….”Stay where u r”……and we saw the figure of a man approaching us at a good speed…At that very moment, the three of us shared a look of mutual understanding….and started running towards the main grounds to disappear into the crowd….just 30 metres away from getting lost in the crowd, we bumped into a professor who was also the security official incharge of the show. Pretty confident that we can talk it out with an IITK professor and wheedle him into allowing us in the concert since we were “IIT Kanpur students”.
Prof: What’s going on?? Where are you people heading?? Do you think we are fools to be standing here, managing this chaos and asking everyone to wait in the queue for their turn…Or is that you consider yourselves too smart to stand in the crowd and wait for your turn….
We thought that probably the prof is unaware of the fact that we are IITK students and hence he is scolding us so badly….So, we thought of telling him the same, targeting his soft corner for IITK and hence the bias, so that he’ll allow us in :D)
We: Ohh sir….We are sorry!! But we are IITK students…
Prof: Which year?
We giggled, happy to see that he is falling in our trap….
We: Sir, third year 
Prof: (his voice suddenly rises to a very uncomfortable level) Third year, IITK students!! You should be ashamed of yourself! This is the image you are portraying amidst so many other college students, that we IITK people believe in breaking our own rules!! This is utterly shameful!!
We :O :O :O
Not knowing what to say next we started off with an incessant use of the word “SORRY”……Absolutely indifferently we were kicked out of the audi by him!!!
After some 10 minutes, just outside the gate, when the three of us were admiring the prof’s sincerity and his unbiased commitment to his job, my phone rang…One of my friend calls up to say that “the prof has had mercy on u ppl and wants to take you in…come in through the back door QUIETLY…”
And there we were….in the first row next to the stage staring and screaming in Atif’s concert….Who says ‘Fraud’ is a word in IITK associated with ONLY students ……….. After all the “IIT Kanpur” bias worked…