Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Adventures of Sam

I have been away from blogging for a long while now, thanks to more pressing matters in my life. But now that I have become busy with my routine at IIT, I finally find myself left with enough time to spare for my blog. It's this thing with being kept busy that amuses me; I always feel that I have lots of free time to kill then. Give me nothing to do and I become preoccupied with boredom.

Most of you may know Sam from a previous post. Sam is our typical personality who has the not so uncommon knack of making me laugh with his quotidian colloquialism. The other day he told me that he was tired of wasting time in bathing. I asked him what other options did he have, to which he happily told me he would dry clean himself. He has these clear cut solutions to simple issues in life that intrigue him as hell. If you want to see the height of stupidity, you just have to ask Sam how tall he is. Sam tells me he wants to become a doctor, so that he can help humankind. I feel that he is helping more humans than he can ever do by becoming a doctor the way he is now; at least no lives are endangered due to his stupidity. He once stumbled upon a fortune cookie that said "Seek your fortune in another cookie". And he did.

Sam I believe, was born only with a single brain cell, that has now been reduced to half following repeated usage over all these years. He was trying a guitar in the store the other day.

Sam: Hey it's been so long since I played a guitar.
Me: Sam dear, you have never played a guitar.
Sam: Exactly.
(Plays around with it for a while. Then, )
Sam: Hey how do you play this chord again? I forgot.
Me: I thought you don't know how to play the guitar.
Sam: Ah! That's why I keep forgetting.

Yesterday he came to me holding a cool Federer-autographed tennis ball in his hand, and asked me

Sam: Ain't this cool?
Me: Good, but whose is it?
Sam: It was lost. I found it.
Me: How do you know?
Sam: Well, the kid next door is still looking around for it.

Sam owns a car that he says has never had a wreck since 5 years. I don't want to disappoint him by telling him the truth - that he owned a wreck and has never had a car. Sam is also quite good at a dance called the elevator; he avoids the steps. Lately, he feels that everyone has been ignoring him due to his stupidity. So he went to see a counselor.

Sam: Everyone ignores me. What should I do?
Counselor: Next please!

Ha ha.

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