What Not to Do On A Rainy Evening

Step One: When you are quietly and calmly seated in the library, studiously avoiding distractions, IM conversations and are working like a good lil' girl, and it starts raining outside, do Not spend fifteen minutes staring at how pretty the trees look in the rain.

Step Two: After staring at the aforementioned flora for an extended period, do Not take the advice of a crazy senior and go for a walk in the (by now) thunderstorm, just to see what it feels like(again). Following which, do Not have long and extended converstaions in the canteen over hot coffee(with the aforementioned rain continuing outside) about the change in the temperature of pee with the change in weather conditions.

Step Three: Once you're done, do Not decide to not change your clothes and go sit in the library wearing wet vetements and 'dry off under the fan'. This is good advice for a number of reasons. For one, you are often more transparent than you think you are. For two, you will feel as Cold as if Hell Hath, indeed, frozen over.

Step Four: If, by chance, better sense prevails, and you Do, infact, go back to change clothes and be all warm, it is advisable that you wear All clothes. Do Not go around wearing a shirt and a towel, loudly yelling "I Dont want to wear pants". Unfortunate experience leads this chronicler to reveal that the result of such actions is generally an irate female coming out, slamming a skirt into your hand and telling you to get lost. As an addendum, it is probably advisable not to wear the said skirt and twirl around and generally enter rooms precdeding the entry with the loud yell of "Im not wearing pants". You may or may not get yelled at quite a lot.*

Step Five: (Admittedly, this has been added because the chronicler feels that five is a nicer number than four). It is probably best Not to insert sentences like "Unfortunately the researcher feels that pigs are fat" into the half-done projects of floormates whose laptops have been left unattended. Beguiling them into thinking that the said sentence has been added a number of times in their project, is again, not the Best of courses to follow.

But then again, you are open to make your own decisions when such situations arise. I sure did.


*- You really gotta love girls hostel.