A Evening at the Tea Shop

A Evening at the Tea Shop

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(Based on true story but the characters are fictions)

There might be many motives to be in “Roadside Tea Shop” but the common thing that we prefer to say ourselves is “Let’s have a cup of tea”. Yesterday was not the different day. After a tiring day with Colouris’s Distributed System I wanted to have a cup of tea, I called my GRE freaked friends and by 6:30 we were in The Roadside Tea Shop. Simple setting with 2 sets of wooden diner and a white dolphin sets. A shopkeeper in his mid thirties, small, with black beard and fat belly is not an interesting guy nor is his tea. Despite that irritating face and tasteless tea it is our routine to be in that Tea Shop. We ordered 3 cup of lemon tea.

“Let’s have a sip of tea” Sam sweetens his face as if some alcoholic is hunting the beer glass.
“Sip of tea” I laughed.”Where did that came from huh, I think that thing in the glass is not Royal Stag”.
As we know for guys like us the only that will catalyze us for English chat is Royal Stag (sometime Khukuri rum can play the trick)
“It’s GRE!!! Boy” Rob smirked at me and with a confident look at his eye he said “And for your reference we don’t drink anymore”.
“See who is saying this, hahaha” I giggled. “I know you left drinking for dozens times in the past”
“This time” Sam pointed the index finger at me and after a little pause he grumbled “it’s true”. He utter that word “TRUE” as if he was telling something true for the first time in his life, slammed the table and take a sip of tea. I and Rob were shocked by his dipsomaniac act so we stared at him without a blink.
“What? Common guys, It’s just a lemon tea” Sam stammered, eyes wide open.
“I thought it was Royal Stag” And the loud laughter burst out in the Roadside Tea Shop.

Rob and Sam made themselves busy with their GRE memorizing some silly words. I was sitting on the dolphin chair at the corner along with my lemonade tea and trying to remember some of my Colouris’s definitions.
“Why are you silent Orthodox guy?” Rob hit me.
I smiled (sarcastically)”Why you saying me an Orthodox? Can you explain?”
“Orthodox: believing and following all the traditional belief, laws and practices of religion” he recited the meaning of Orthodox. “So you are Orthodox” They give five to each other and laughed.
“My ass, Orthodox” I shouted. “I know some English, don’t try to fool me, at least use your stupid GRE somewhere relevant”
“Who cares Bro, all we care is remembering a word” Rob laughed. “By the way Sam, what is the synonym for stupid?”
“mmmmmmmmm” Sam tried to remember.
“Idiot” I told.
“That’s too simple, it’s not GRE” Rob again laughed.
“Shit! Shit! Shit!” Sam shouted as if there was a fire in his ass. “I forgot it man, I learned it just this morning”
“Never mind” Rob smiled. “We gonna find it tonight and use it for you Kailash”
Sam raised his glass to make a toast and we joined with ours “To our own stupid Kailash”
I was freaked out. “Assholes” I muttered.
I raised my glass “To you assholes” I paused to think some word more relevant than asshole “mmmmm assholes, that’s fine and to your asshole GRE” they laughed at me but that was ok for me. I drank the remaining tea in a sip.
“I think you can define me, ‘What is Asshole?’ can you Sam?” I winked at Sam.
“Wait, I can” Sam nodded. “It’s a hole in a part of body that you sit on”
“Aaaahahahahaha Aaaaaahahahaha Aaaaaaahahahaha” And the loud laughter burst out again.

It was about 7:30 PM, time to hit our rooms. “Hey Rob, move your fat ass, it’s time to leave” I chuckled and punched on his arm.
“Don’t dare to punch my machho arms again.” He yelled. “You don’t know how many bottles of Carlsberg I have emptied to make this big”. He pulled his t-shirt up and showed his fatty arms.
“What?” I winked. “That dialogue is from a Nepali movie, so you started to watch Nepali movie, good for you man”
“What’s good in watching Nepali movie?” Sam said. “Look we spent 700 to watch that movie and I lost whole day, now I don’t even remember the synonym of “stupid”, damn it”
“Really, Sam,” I laughed. “You should watch English movie to increase your vocabulary, not Nepali movie, and especially not with somebody’s girlfriends”.
“Hey, she is not somebody’s girlfriend. She is our friends, but god gifted her with girlish character” he chuckled. “But not voice”
“Her voice isn’t that bad” Sam lowered his tone. He looked as if he was lost somewhere. I think he was trying to remember the meaning of stupid.
“I got an idea man” Sam said casually. “We need to watch English movie, let’s go and get one”
“English movie won’t help me with AI, Distributed System or NP, so I need to head home guys” I bid goodbye and walked away.

“Goodbye, goofy” Sam yelled from the other side of road. He finally remembered the synonym of stupid. I smiled and wend my way home.