Umang's ROFLday! Part-1

In June 2010, I came up with this awesome idea to surprise Adi by visiting him at midnight for his birthday.

For next two years we did this for everyone in the group. It had now become so obvious that now there was no surprise left in this surprise plan.

17^th july is Umang’s Birthday.

We wanted to make the day memorable for Umang and for the entire FUKATS!

Tomorrow is Umang’s bday, what to do so as to catch him with surprise? Was what I kept on thinking.

Tej had decided that he won’t be coming alone all the way just to wish Umang.

Farhan had some exam in a month, so according to his own rules and regulations its “CRIMINAL” to enjoy anything a month before his exams. He won’t spend couple of hours for dinner as that would waste his time and would then update a status on whatAapp “desperately need a break” or would waste an entire day watching all 6 movies of star trek.

 So now even Farhan was not coming. 

Suraj and I had gone for trekking on 15^th so Suraj was tired and didn’t want to come all the way to Umang’s place.

This left me and Adi to do something so that Umang doesn’t feel bad. At 10.00 pm, the day before his bday I messaged Adi what to do, both of us were blank!

It was 11pm now, and we were still thinking…

Then I remembered that just 20 days back for Adi’s bday, I and Umang had thought of a plan that we would take Adi to Worli seaface at 12.30 or 1 and would have Tej, Suraj and Farhan waiting there with a cake to wish him and this would surprise him.

 We had eventually not surprised him at all and that plan had flopped then.

Knowing how Umang is (most of his friends call him C#∪|!Y@, and believe me he is one), I messaged Adi that lets take Umang to the seaface at 11.30 in the night and wish him a happy bday there and then return to his place by 12.15. If not to surprise him with a cake, then atleast make a fool of him so that he remembers this day for a long time.

Adi agreed with the plan and decided to come along. Now the question was how to take him out to seaface at 11.30. He would not just come to seaface for a round at 11.30 on a night before his birthday. It struck me that people would go to seaface to watch high tides in the sea, so I said we will tell Umang that today there is some special high tide at 11.45, which is going to be the highest for several years.

I called Umang at 11.30 and told him that I and Adi are going to the seaface to watch this special high tide, which is one of its kind and there might not be any tides as high as this in the near future.

I asked him to accompany us and come to watch it. He agreed then and there. Being the nerd that he is next moment he google’d about the tide, but couldn’t find anything regarding this high tide.

He checked the high tide timings and then he found out that 10.30 was actually a Low tide time. Then it struck him that it might be our plan to take him to seaface and surprise him there, just as we had thought.

So as decided I met Adi at 11.30 and then we met Umang and then by 11.40 went for a ride along the seaface.

It’s just a 5 minutes ride to seaface from Umang’s house. We reached seaface and then Umang said that he looked up the high tide timings and that it was indeed a low tide time.

I and Adi were surprised that knowing that it’s not a high tide time he is here with us. To cover up the story I started saying that it’s the highest of the low tides today, although a lame reason but it was enough to confuse Umang.

 He was thinking about it and in the mean time I and Adi were laughing hard.

 Then Umang said that he knows that we are going to surprise him there with others waiting with the cake.

We said no, nothing like that is happening.

After crossing 2-3 signals Adi who was driving suddenly stopped at a point in the middle of the road and pointed towards a building.

 I and Umang were confused. Adi said “can u see that building over there?” I and Umang said yes in unison.

 Adi said “That’s  my College”.

 Umang started abusing Adi like hell,  “Sale Bc Mc Adi raat ke 11..50 ko aise hi ruk ke apna colg dikhata hai! 10bar dekh chukka hu tera college, ab chal U turn le and ghar chal, kal mera bday hai mujhe laga 12 baje tum log kuch surprise plan kiya rahega isliye me aaya. Sale haramkhor chal ghar chal.”

I and Adi went crazy laughing at Umang.

And he went crazy abusing us.

 Adi then took a U-turn at next signal. It was still 11.55 so we wanted to waste more time before returning. Adi stopped at the seaface now, I and Adi got down, Umang now furious also got down.

Umang and I went to sit on the platform at seaface. And we didn’t come to know when Adi took the car and left both of us stranded at the seaface.

I was limping a bit because I had hurt my knee on the trek on 15^th. So I was unable to walk fast, and I was left with Umang who was just blabbering some abuses,  bc, mc, haramkhor, etc and shouting in such a loud pitch, that would put any Gujurati lady to shame.

 All the people on seaface were staring at us, giving weird expressions. Umang called up Adi and told him to return and pick us up.

In the meantime the clock struck 12.00.

At the stroke of 12 Umang took his phone and called a friend.

Ironic that on his bday at midnight he is calling a friend, instead of the friend calling him, but it turns out that it was his crush’s bday as well and he wanted to be the first one to wish her. He wished her and then in the meantime Adi returned to pick us up.

By this time Umang was furious with us,  he asked us “ye kya tha, mujhe seaface kyu laya??” to which I replied “ yaar baaki koi log nhi aa rhe the aaj tere ghar and mujhe and Adi ko samjha nhi ki tujhe kaise surprise kare, so socha ki bas aise hi seaface pe round marke ate hai, and tujhe C#∪|!Y@ banake atleast thoda memorable banate hai.”

Umang “Kamino kutto aise koi kisike birthday pe C#∪|!Y@ banata hai kya? Tum dono ne mera bday kharab kar dala. Kuch plan nhi bana tha to fir aise kuch bhi karoge kya?! Sala bday saal me ek baar aata hai and tum dono ne wo din hi kharab kar dala. 

Bc ab next bday kiska hai? Dekho kamino kaise kharab karta hu me uska bday, bas ruko ab kisika bday ane tak. Tum logon ki kehke lunga!!!”

On the way back we thought lets meet chaitanya on our way back, as we were going from near his building, we called him down and then headed to Umang’s house.

 Umang as expected was very frustrated and was fuming in anger, Umang “Kamino baat mat karo kabhi mujhse, pura mood kharab kar dala tum dono ne.” Chaitanya also started laughing at Umang. Finally we returned to Umang’s house by 12.15.

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