TECHNICALLY CHALLENGED

We come across such a wide variety of people while staying in an hostel !!! Being a proud resident of hostel from the last 4 years, I have come across a number of people. And the worst part about it is we get to know people really well here!!! And of all those species that I have met until now- the worst have been of this species whom we fondly call as 'TECHNICALLY CHALLENGED SPECIES'.

My first room-mate was a medico. This girl is an extremely brilliant girl and had been scoring exceedingly well in all her college examinations !!! One night when we were busy studying, we decided to make Maggi in the hostel room. Now cooking in the room, and that too on a hot plate was strictly prohibited. That night I took the entire initiative of cooking (Maggi), and happily delegated the task of washing dishes on my room-mate. Next morning every time we used to switch on the hotplate the fuse used to blow off- and would horribly annoy our hostel authorities, since somebody had to come over and replace the wire after every 5 minutes.

Finally, I had to put all my engineering skills to test and I decided to open this hotplate, only to find 2 cups of water inside it !!! I was really shocked to find water inside a hotplate, and almost had a mild cardiac arrest when I discovered that it was because my dear medico roommate had tried to WASH it..

Imagine holding this hotplate under running water, and washing it with a detergent; or still worse, dip it in a bucket full of water. How clean it would appear isn't it????
I still remember spending hours together trying to dry the water with a hair drier!!!


There is one another MBA (HR) friend of mine who doesn't understand how to insert a cassette in a Cassette Player !!! She always manages to insert the wrong side, then the player automatically ejects out, then she again inserts the wrong side, hits the button with full force, vigor and anger, and then finally when even that doesn't works, decides to reverse the cassette or alternatively asks somebody to insert it in the player..

I used to share a flat with her, and once we had guests at home. Those were the post 26/7 days when we had to boil water and drink. But since we had to immediately offer it to our guests, she had to use all her skills to cool it. She had filled hot water it in a plastic bottle, then corked it tightly to make it watertight and kept it in the freezer !!! IMMEDIATE EFFECT U SEE... I wanted to retain this bottle to show her children how primitive plastic used to be !!!

I have also seen her getting confused between a water pump, and a generator. And I was shocked to see that she couldn't identify the difference even when the pump had pipes running in all the possible directions!!!

There are several such encounters with my room- mates and friends, where I am always left surprised to see that people don't understand even the simplest principles of Physics, or Chemistry (or Common Sense)!! And I invariably lose my temper while teaching them these basics.....

However now my patience has greatly increased after meeting one another girl in my hostel!!! Sadly enough she is a engineering student. She had her submissions the other day, and had not been able to finish the drawings, and like every other engineering student she decided to Glass Trace the drawings ( GT / Topo- whatever people call it). And to my surprise she had kept a 60W fluorescent light bulb in a plastic bucket and then covered it with the glass, only to find that the bulb got so hot that there was an accurate round shaped hole in the bucket!!!!


MAY GOD SAVE THIS TECHNICALLY CHALLENGED SPECIES ON THE EARTH!!!! AMEN......