The Regional Crowd

It was my first year in coll when I first come in to touch with these creatures, if I may call them creatures. Possibly the most queer species I have seen. They looked acted like humans from outside and came in all sizes and shapes. But thats where the similarity ends. Their strange way of talking, eating, doing things and most of all their mentality and outlooks towards others took me by surprise. I began to wonder...r they normal ?? or am I abnormal ??!!

The way that act in class or group, could make u feel embarrassed and often in a position, where you would not know what to do...n this happened to you because u committed the grave mistake of being with them...n lettin them think that ur his 'friend'. One such incident happened to me: It was first year...we were yet to no the whole class. It was common that they discussed girls of their respective batches. I happened to b present during one of those 'hot' discussions bcos it happened in my room. One girl used b the hot topic for discussion. I committed the blunder of sayin "luks lik shes a nice girl" (goin by their praises for the girl). The very nxt day I was suddenly called by my 'friend'. It looked as if he was in sum kinda emergency. To my surprize, he took me to that girl n said..."he's my friend n wud lik to b ur friend" and went away !! Now it was the first time that I saw that girl n came face to face with her, n moreover she looked like an aunty, definitely not a coll girl. At that point, wt the fcuk ws I supposed to do? I felt too embarrassed to say nethin. I jus ran outta that place, thinking...what hit me? Was it the girl (aunty) or was the way in which intro had taken place. It was clear that I was not expecting such a blunt intro and sounding as if I was a big despo who wants to befriend a girl. And not 2 4get that all this happened because I was his 'friend'.

With them around, if sum1 is talking to a girl, he working out his 'setting' with the girl. Teasing somebody if they chatted with a girl was a common site. C'mon we were in coll...not in some govt school. There etiquettes are outta this world, whether they are talkin to you, teacher, or worse, when talking to a girl. If ur out with them, its obvious that they will make u feel embarrassed but they dont mind any action of their's and think it to be perfectly justified. Bitching about others, faking things, to gain attention of girls was a common thing during those days. Later even girls came to no about their true nature. When it come to money matters, their parochialism was the worst I have ever seen. They would use ur things, even if they had their own (eg deo, pen. etc) so that it saved them money (will sum1 ask them how many paise did they save?).They never seem to be outta words when it come self praising. Possibly the best of best blowhards ever (esp in front of a girl).

Its a gud thing that they are limited in our coll...otherwise lyf cud have been hell. Imagine, what u do particular thing is wrong, but if they do same thing is absolutely FINE. Try listening to there choice of there music, I really dont understand how do they find such useless music tracks? I listen to both English and Hindi songs, but cannot stand a single minute of their 'best' of their songs. One more thing worth mentioning is that u dont want to stand near them. If for sum reason u (god forbid) had to, it wud have been difficult because the body odor of most of them would make a skunk shy away. And if ur around when they are taking their socks off....well...the smell could knock u off !!

It is not that all the regional crowd is alike, there are exceptions also, but they are very rare. I would not mind having friendship with them, but I cannot stand their behavior, there narrow-minded thinking and most of all double standards. My experiences with them leaves me always uncomfortable whenever I meet another person who is from the same region even though I do not know him. I hope you no why................