My class began and all were seated. The professor had started chanting the mantras which I presume she had learnt through years of teaching the students only upgrading the informative content to a certain extent catering to the nature, gender, style, fashion and age of the student group.
There was Christine sitting behind me and I was concentrating to understand the new topic unveiled by the professor. It was fun to understand that "marketing" had a slight hint of "psychology". The buyers and sellers, the consumers and customers were segragated into various types based upon the jingle in their pockets and their need. Need and satisfaction went hand in hand where the gap was tried to be filled by the sellers. The lecture diverted towards the topic of cars and what kind of a car is liked by which kind of people.
Suddenly at the door I saw a rainbow appear... well atleast the person had wored every colour in the rainbow. A complete retro looking guy. He was atheletically built and wore khaki shorts and stripped shirt with red-coloured square glasses fixed on his nose. He was confident or shameless enough to note ask permission from the professor who was flowing in her own stroy telling spirit and I was wondering if such kind of behaviour was acceptable from a student. He might have been a professional, proficient in his respective field but wasn't the professor deserving a polite permission seeking routine?? Hmmm... my thought was suddenly interupted by the retro guy who was asked by the professor if he could name a toyota vehicle and all he could do was give a smile, look at everyone around him and said tht he has never come across any vehicle brand of that name. My imagination took flight and I hit him on his head... Christine knocked my elbow off the bench and I was back on planet Earth! Suddenly it occured to me that certain people assigned certain things to status quo and it didnt take me much time to figure out that toyota was completely a different status desire. His might have been a Merc. I could vividly imagine him driving a black Merc and stepping out of it ignoring all the other low-lying vehicle which were completely below him.
I was pulled out of my dreamland by the professor who very politely and charmingly asked the retro idiot to give an example of drinking bottled water. He again did his usual expression only by now everyone in the room understood it as an idiot's attempt to shine. The kind of time he took for the reply, the professor looked at him and very plesantly said...." May be you haven't heard of it either! Life must be really tough!" We all giggled like silly little girls and went back to the notes.
There was Christine sitting behind me and I was concentrating to understand the new topic unveiled by the professor. It was fun to understand that "marketing" had a slight hint of "psychology". The buyers and sellers, the consumers and customers were segragated into various types based upon the jingle in their pockets and their need. Need and satisfaction went hand in hand where the gap was tried to be filled by the sellers. The lecture diverted towards the topic of cars and what kind of a car is liked by which kind of people.
Suddenly at the door I saw a rainbow appear... well atleast the person had wored every colour in the rainbow. A complete retro looking guy. He was atheletically built and wore khaki shorts and stripped shirt with red-coloured square glasses fixed on his nose. He was confident or shameless enough to note ask permission from the professor who was flowing in her own stroy telling spirit and I was wondering if such kind of behaviour was acceptable from a student. He might have been a professional, proficient in his respective field but wasn't the professor deserving a polite permission seeking routine?? Hmmm... my thought was suddenly interupted by the retro guy who was asked by the professor if he could name a toyota vehicle and all he could do was give a smile, look at everyone around him and said tht he has never come across any vehicle brand of that name. My imagination took flight and I hit him on his head... Christine knocked my elbow off the bench and I was back on planet Earth! Suddenly it occured to me that certain people assigned certain things to status quo and it didnt take me much time to figure out that toyota was completely a different status desire. His might have been a Merc. I could vividly imagine him driving a black Merc and stepping out of it ignoring all the other low-lying vehicle which were completely below him.
I was pulled out of my dreamland by the professor who very politely and charmingly asked the retro idiot to give an example of drinking bottled water. He again did his usual expression only by now everyone in the room understood it as an idiot's attempt to shine. The kind of time he took for the reply, the professor looked at him and very plesantly said...." May be you haven't heard of it either! Life must be really tough!" We all giggled like silly little girls and went back to the notes.
Wonder how the guy really was! Actual idiot or too smart to give answers that wouldn't have given him the attention he got otherwise ;-)
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