Caught Cheating?

This pic sent by my friend made me smile and reminded me of a similar incident… that happened when I was in the first year of college.

And so, it happened like we were put in a batch of 60+ students and the class hours were more like school. We had to go to the department at 9:00 and it got over by 4:35. Most of the periods were boring with temporary faculties and old lecturers. But there were some exceptions too like English lecturer Praveen who captivated us with his knowledge in English, mechanical staff JK who terrorised us with his sadistic questions, Civil Lecturer Raghavan sir who advised more like great Grandpa and Maths lecturer Nelson sir who taught us everything but maths.

The only periods I used to like were the lab classes, wherein I can get to work at my pace and leave the lab as soon as possible and get back to hostel. And then, there was the dreaded workshop lab. Though I managed the “fitting” lab, I could never get any carpentry piece to a finer shape. My benchmates were more like the 6 foot massive builded villains and mastering the wood piece was a piece of cake for them while I sweated on bringing it to absolute measurements. After the class, I would be left with relatively no energy and I would march straight to my room bunking the next 2 theory hours.

On the fateful day, my evil friend kept on nagging me asking not to bunk the two hours. She didn’t have company on that day and hence cast me into a spell saying that I can always afford to sleep in the class if I want. And so I went to the class after workshop lab. The physics lecturer was damn boring in her lecture and I started sleeping. Well, to do this, my friend had taught me a little trick.

One has to understand the finer nuances in this masterwork. I would have to have my eyes open all the time and switch off the brain selectively. But then, the head would lose control and would want to rest itself on the desk. To prevent this, one should give support to the head using both the hands. The final effect should look like “kappal kavilndha sogam”. I too had graduated in this and was doing it very well for sometime. Then, tragedy happened. My brain cheated me and did an action involuntarily. It decided to give rest to my hands too. I was too deeep in sleep to realise what happened. I fell on the desk and suddenly woke up with a start..

Oh My!! the lecturer stared at me like anything that I didn’t know what to do. I caught a piece of paper and begun copying notes from the blackboard frantically. I didn’t dare look at her face. After a minute, (Or so I guess), I dared and looked. To my horror, she was still looking at me intently. Caught red-handed, I used my final weapon.. “a stupid grin”.. She smiled too and let me in peace..Appa.. aaana andha oru nimisham naan patta paadu!!!