College Hostel Stories

This is from the time 12 years back when I was doing an MBA from Sinhgad Institutes in Lonavala. A beautiful college campus in the middle of the mountain. Our hostel was at the top where fog used to enter into our rooms in winter. Most of the time was spent in the hostel doing some nonsense activity (all you can imagine) than in the classroom. It was a 2-year holiday package for most of us. Every room in the hostel had 3 students. We were 50 students from the same class living next to each other's room. All my 50 friends were distinctly unique in their own abilities to screw each other in some way or other. I had 2 roommates, Punit and Rajnikanth (Names are changed to protect the privacy of individuals) Punit was the most easy-going guy. He was a dedicated student when it came to playing games on his laptop. He was a kickass virtual fighter. On the other hand, Rajnikanth was exactly like his name says. Stylish, stunt man, cool with girls, born leader and also often easily misguided by his friends.

One Sunday afternoon post-lunch I was chilling in my hostel room. Punit was busy in his laptop playing a video game. And Rajni was lying on his bed which was next to the door. I was getting bored. So I thought to exercise my unique ability to mess with others for self-entertainment. In the very next room, our good friend Chetan was sleeping. Chetan was fond of teasing and messing up with Rajni every now & then. I got up and told Punit & Rajni that let's mess up with Chetan as he is sleeping. I asked them not to leave their place & stay cool as if had nothing happened. I went out, walked quietly to Chetan's room, the door was closed. I knocked hard on his door, ran into my room & laid down on my bed reading some book. Punit & Rajni started laughing so I asked them to shut up & stay cool. Then Chetan came in our room with his eyes half-closed from sleep asking us why did we wake him up. I said, 'We didn't wake you, we all are sitting in our room.' My partners in crime nodded their head trying to suppress their laughter. Chetan went back thinking someone else might have knocked on the door. After 5 minutes I again went and repeated the same drill. This kept on going for 4 to 5 times. Knock the door -> Run -> Lay on the bed -> Chetan entering our room pissed off -> Us saying we didn't knock. By this time Chetan had reached the boiling point.

This time I asked Rajni to go & knock on his door. I told him it is super fun and Rajni's bed was just next to our door. So he would have to run less. I encouraged him for this grand event. Convincing Rajni for such things were often quite easy. I assured him that to guide him I will stand in our door. Punit was watching all this drama. Our brave warrior went out keeping his life in the hand. In the name of The Great Rajnikanth, he knocked Chetan's door with his Thor's hammer-like hand that the whole sky echoed with that sound. And then he ran towards our room. As I saw he knocked hard on Chetan's door and ran, I closed our room from inside. I and Punit were rolling on the floor laughing while Rajni was knocking our door cursing me & pleading to open the door. Then Chetan came out to find Rajni knocking our door like crazy. He asked Rajni, 'You were knocking my door first and now you are knocking your own door. Is this your afternoon hobby or what?.' Rajni tried to convince Chetan, 'It wasn't me. All the time it was this @#*%## Sujeet and now he put me in a trap.' But it was too late to convince. I opened our door and both came inside to find me & Punit laughing our hearts out. To Rajni's surprise, Punit said yes it was Rajni all the time, making Chetan angrier on him. We cherish this incident whenever we talk. Hostel life was filled with such unforgettable stories of my friends. 

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