If there was ever an award given for "The most forgetful man on earth", I am sure I will be a prime contender for it!
Its not as if I am a dumb fellow!! When it comes to intelligence, at the risk of sounding immodest, I will say that I have quite a ticker up there!! But when it comes to the memory department, I aint got much if it!
I am quite sure that "The Creator" was ogling at some delectable creature while I was being made, and instead of attaching the spacy "40 Gb Hard Disk" to go along with my zippy "P4 processor", he put in a teeny weeny "4.3 Gb Disk". In fact, maybe that is the reason why I dont quite trust HIM!
If I was ever to submit a resume for that award that I just mentioned, listing some of my greatest achievements, this is what will be Numero Uno on that list!
This happened when I was in the junior college. On a lazy Sunday morning, I had gone to get some groceries from a corner shop, and instead of walking over as usual, I took my mom's Kinetic Honda. I was preoccupied by something else(I dont recall what, but it must have been something to do with cricket...cos those were the days!!). I was not really very involved with what I was doing. What happened next must be very obvious. You guessed right! After finishing the groceries, I completely forgot about the vehicle. I walked back in high spirits, thinking all the time about how I was doing my body a great service by walking back! The next morning, all hell broke loose. Mom thought that the vehicle had been stolen. All of us started to jog our minds, trying to remember if there could
be any other explanation! Freakishly, I did not recall having taken along the vehicle to the grocers!
Eventually, all fingers started pointing towards me! I was rather offended by this lack of trust in me. WIth an injured look on my face, I assured everyone that "this time"I had nothing to do with it! I did get this funny feeling, that maybe I am missing something.But having denied any involvement, I decided to keep it to myself.
Well, having established that it was a case of stolen goods, we decided to lodge a complaint with the local police. But first, just to be sure, we decided to mobilise some friends and search the neighbourhood. I volunteered to ride along with my elder brother to do the job. I even passed by the grocer, but did not remember anything. When we were on our way to the police station, it finally hit me. Sheepishly I tapped my elder brother's shoulder, and told him where it might be! The colour of his face turned a blood red! But having lived with me for so many years, he realised that I was quite capable of such a thing. Promptly, we turned around, and rode to the grocers place. Fortunately, the grocer had realised that I had forgotten the vehicle, and had kept it safely for us!! Pheww!!
I dont need to tell you what I had to face when I went home!! Hehehe!!
That day, I vowed that I will never do such a thing again!! Of course, you know what happens with these kind of vows. These things are not quite in your hands!! Such incidents keep on happening even now, but none of them quite matches this one!