Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Results, parents, competiton and more....

Exam results have apparently come out. Apparently because, as usual, the site doesn't load. There are the Blessed Ones (BO) who always get right through, and are currently being inundated with requests to check others' results as well. Student S1 is sitting nervously on his/her chair, rocking back and forth, hitting F5 every few seconds. Sibling S2 helpfully asks him/her to try proxy servers. S1 tries about 5 proxies, to no avail.
Finally, twenty minutes later, S1 get through to the results. Pretty decent, but he/she decides to send some papers for re-evaluation. What are results without re-eval? He/ she also checks scores of friends who have asked him/her to check on their behalf.
S2, meanwhile, runs around the house heralding the results to all in the family. Mother M lists the names of all the Gods she can remember and thanks them. Father F grunts at the score and asks where that puts S1 in the class. Grandmother GM wants to break a coconut for the Gods left out by Mother. Grandfather GF is content to listen to the radio and not care.
Phone rings.
It is the concerned parent of a high scorer. We shall call him/her PHS.
PHS : HS (his/her kid) scored blah blah. What happened to S1??
Parent P of S1 realises HS might be the highest scorer. P: S1 scored blah.
PHS makes sympathetic noises : Which subject? What happened?
P gives details. Then, to salvage some pride, P adds: S1 is sending them for re-evaluation.
PHS vociferously supports this decision. Then asks about associated students. PHS is trying to make sure his/her child has come first.
P starts getting annoyed and to escape, suggests their children talk instead.
S1 and HS now come to the line.
HS: Enna da/di? Any arrears?
S1: No da/ di. May send this and this for re-eval.
HS: Everyone else ok?
S1: Ya man.
HS: Seri, cool. I am going back to playing Counter Strike.
S1: Great da. Me too.
Hang up.
Standard disclaimers apply - Post is imaginary, characters are imaginary, doesn't apply to anyone I know, doesn't apply to parents of anyone I know, it is just a general take on parents who are more competitive than the kids.

4 people's 2 cents:

Anand Chandramouli said...

Better than the presumptuous crap you wrote earlier ;)

skullz said...

I dont remember when my parents were so worried about my grades ... One funny & true incident
Daddgy (G) came to school to attend PTA. G parked his scooter outside the gate and standing confused and calculating son (M's) age.He does it like this. I(G) got Married to V in 1980. Had a daughter M2 in 1983 and M in 1985. How old must he be? 10? should be in 5th grade.

G to another parent : Excuse me , could you please tell me where 5th standard is ??

Your churning out thouhts faster than Bhangra beats of Sukhbir . slow down kudiye . :D ..

bitter_chocolate said...

@anand: good to know i am improving

@skullz: lol, lol. i know, i just feel like writing a lot these days.

@kv: freedom of opinion, child. peace. thanks for defending me though :) u always do that!

Vignesh Kumar said...

chuckles...very tru observation..keep wrytin...!!1