Say What?!

It so happened that one day we were supposed to have class on a Saturday. And, this class wasn’t mentioned in our time table. It was a very important class since we were nearing the end of a semester and we had a lot more to cover. The teacher, very anxious to take class and finish the portions, called one of us a day before and said “please pass the word around”. Surprisingly though, the Saturday came and there were six out of thirty students in class!

“Where is everybody?” she asked. We all said we had “passed the word around”.

Here’s another instance. Quite recently there was a cat fight in college! One tore the other’s clothes. One got scratched on the face and both were suspended when some lecturers intervened. The “word” wasn’t supposed to “go around”! However, within a day there were many stories flying about college. Everyone went about telling the others “Don’t tell anyone, okay?”, and every one of these narrated the story like they witnessed the whole scene personally. One said that one girl stole the other one’s boyfriend! Another said one of them called the other a b**** and so they started pulling each other’s hair off! A few more stories went around and soon the whole college knew about it. The most surprising part is, this too was after college hours and wasn’t of course mentioned in the time table! So how did the “word go around”? This question always stays.


How come information about a class being scheduled out of routine doesn’t go around? And how come news about someone “stealing” another girl’s boyfriend reach everyone like it has been broadcast on AIR? No one knows. No one ever will.

Moral: If you want to pass on some information, however important it is, ALWAYS prefix it with the sentence “Don’t tell anyone, okay?” (Even if it is about having an exam the next day!!)

-Kiran