the funnIEst

What is the funniest moment in my life? That’s been the question am struggling to answer for past couple of days. I can definitely tell you the most memorable, that’s got to be the trip to Kodayar hills. Yea that was amazing; let me see that was some ten years back and I still remember it so as yesterday. That’s not much but definitely qualifies as most memorable. I can try my hand at the ‘saddest’, that’s got to be a heartbreak. So there was one. Let me see, I can even come up with the ‘most absurd’. That’s would be spending all the money on lunch and traveling unreserved on a train; sleeping in the luggage rack for twelve hours straight. I can go on, If you insisit on trying me; Here goes. The ‘Most exciting’? That would have to be the first day of my first job. The ‘most romantic’? the ride to Mel Kotai and even the tough one the; ‘most embarrassing’? That’s perhaps for another time.

But now I’m having a hard time figuring out the funniest, just where did my ‘funniest moment’ go? O yea, there it is. I guess it was around four years back, and it was New Years Eve. We did the usual stuff then my roommates and I called it a day in the wee hours of the morning. I was as tired as Roadrunner must have been between takes. But my friend kept on talking, without me realizing I had slept in the middle. I woke up with a start, realized I missed what he just said and dutifully asked him to repeat himself. To which he refused and I for one who didn’t want to be pushed, came back with this imaginative yet smart reply. “Not a big deal, I would look it up in my missed calls”(for people of last generation or simply those not in touch with the world, missed calls are the list of calls which you failed to answer on your mobile phone).

Right, Accepted. I could see the frown on your faces. What a moron I got to be to come up with something so lame. I thought about making up something so cool and funny in a Vin diesel kind of way. I even contemplated of writing this and then you call reading this to be your ‘Most embarrassing’ moment. Even copying something from a 80’s edition of Reader’s Digest crossed my mind. But that is besides the point. I guess funniest need not be Jim Carreyish, in most cases it might not even make sense to others. But imagine this, after I just said that; it reached my brains of what just came out of my mouth. We both sat up laughing, laughing our arses off. This even woke up my other roommate. And it took five minutes to compose ourselves to narrate what happened then we kept on laughing.

Yup, that was the funniest moment of my life; he teases me to this very day. Even my wife to be, got so scared thinking what’s in store for her when she heard this story. Miss you guys.