When life gives you lemons.

Hi, am planning to pen down my thoughts, share funny things I came across in my life so far and of course confuse you with senseless doubts that arise in my curious mind. 

Year: 1999 AD

Place: 10th Grade classroom 

Like everyone, (???) I too wasted few years of my (teacher's) life, in school

Well, it so happens that whenever our maths teacher distributes answer sheets she always saved Best for the last. That day was no exception!

Here enter our maths guru with a happy expression on her face, (looks like the lioness found her prey) She had bought our maths answer sheet! (ah, now I find the reason for her happiness! )

Fear has swept across our classroom, there was a pin drop silence, which was highly unusual!.
She cleared her throat and roared, " Am going to distribute your sheets today ( i bet this lady had something to do with the guy who wrote the daily forecast column in our local daily! Well for me that day it was "You will gain admiration") go through it and let me now if u have any doubts (i never asked doubt when you were teaching us that treacherous trigonometry, how will i now?? )

She started calling out names one by one, first one was #### (well its not manners to give out names! ) then next was @@@@ of course (what's next? **** ) then turn came for my best friend to receive her papers, she started sobbing as soon as she saw her paper (omg she was the best in our gang!. When she herself is feeling so bad, what about me ?) 

Now everyone received their papers except me! then I heard "R. Gayathri!!" . 

Wow! i can't believe am I the class topper or anything? No doubt writing so many sheets made her repent for underestimating my math skills... well my heart was pounding in surprise,

what should i say when she praises me ? should i clap back when my fellow mates cheer me

up ? i can't wait to get the medal for most outstanding student of the year (note "outstanding ")

i hid all my excitement and slowly progressed towards her, now she looked like a bomb that might go off at any moment , because i was always known for my notorious adventures when it comes to maths. 

Disappointingly she din't say anything, she just handed over me my papers and kept quite !

Well its always silence that prevails the cyclone 

I came back my seat, my friend was still sobbing over her paper, i slowly peeped into her sheet.She has scored around 80, "what?? why are you feeling so bad for this? !"i asked ,

"I expected around 90 da,I got only 80 oh no ..." she sank back into her sheet.

i slowly looked at my paper, What!!!!!!! 0.5/100 (yes please don't rush to get appointment with your doc have your eyes checked  , you read it right, its 1/2 for 100) oh god something things has gone seriously wrong! I carefully flipped through the pages and was literally searching for some valid reason.

 

My friend craned her neck and looked at my sheet , she stopped sobbing for a sec (her heart must have skipped a beat after witnessing my achievement) it was like someone has given her the shock of her life. 

I gave her "that's not my mistake "kind of look. She was still in the grip of shock.Slowly she looked away and started sobbing again. 

The way i flipped through the pages , made heads turn . 

"R.Gayathri , what's so impressive about your paper? .You are digging in so much as if you are .5 away from 100 ! all you scored is only that. Don't have high hopes! Am not going to give you any further marks for all those senseless numbers you have jumbled up on your paper ! " 

Whole class froze in silence, I still don't get it, whether it was  my adventure which silenced the guys or the look my maths teacher gave me . 

So many words raced inside me,  answer was spontaneous  " I wonder , how you managed to scrape up this 1/2 , all i can see is so many red line running across the pages! (believe me guys all the pages looked like she was practicing her drawing skill over my answers!)

I searched so much mam, i still don't get it!Where did this 1/2 mark came from?" 

There , I  have done it! I have dug my own grave through my words, whole class broke out in laughter ! i carefully avoided seeing her face, which was bulging with anger.

Moral: "When life gives you lemons, throw them at someone.!!! " 

Footnote : 

1. She specially arranged for an one to one with our Principal, in recognition of my notable!? achievement in maths . 

2. After so many sleepless nights ,I managed to find the culprit which earned me that 1/2 mark. It was nothing but a formula "a + b) 2 = a2 + 2ab + b2 "Which i have mistakenly written for a trigonometry problem! (i think she found it hard to put 0 /100 , after whole year of teaching a bright!!! student like me!) 

I will be back with another funny excerpt from my adventures