So our college’s annual cultural fest has started again, this time in its newest edition – Festember XI. And it seems to be shaping up pretty well, at least when compared to last year’s edition, which was a train wreck according to popular opinion (including mine). College fests mean all sorts of food stalls that satisfy any cuisine one may crave, from North Indian chaats and South Indian idli-dosa to pizzas and pastries for the chic crowd.
To further encourage the crowd to spend, each person is given food coupons worth Rs 750 valid only during Festember, the amount being deducted from their mess deposit. These coupons come in denominations of 50, 20, 10 and 5.
Now two of my friends, let’s call them Damo and Sappa, were budgeting their expenditure for the next three days. Rs 750 falls way short of covering even a day and a half considering the sky-high prices that some of these stalls are charging (consider this – Baskin-Robbins is charging 60 bucks for 60 grams of ice-cream!)
Keeping this in mind, they decided to split a pizza worth a hundred by coughing up fifty each. This is where I need to mention that Sappa, though he may have a GPA of around nine on a scale of ten and what not, lacks a wee bit in the common sense department. Damo handed Sappa his coupon, and the latter went up to the stall to buy the pizza.
Upon getting there and placing his order, Sappa pulled out two coupons to find out that they only totalled 55 (that’s right, 50 + 5). Thinking he’d pulled out a wrong coupon, Sappa replaced the coupon worth 5 with another worth 50 and paid up for the pizza. When both had finished licking the box inside-out, Damo had an interesting anecdote to share. Apparently, he had handed Sappa the 5 rupee coupon after folding it in two, and the latter accepted it without bothering to check it first. Thanks to some quick thinking by Damo and an incredible bit of luck, he’s managed two slices of pizza for just Rs 5 – this has got to be a record of some sort!
Needless to say, we had a good laugh at Sappa’s expense, and he won’t be living this down for a long time to come 😀
As for me, I’m inviting Sappa out to lunch tomorrow, 50-50 of course :p
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