An upLIFTing experience.....

Ever ran out of excuses or reasons to cut college? Yea it happens as there are four years of it. But sometimes something unexpected comes and knocks on our forehead with an opportunity revealing itself. Seize it then and then with a bit of your imagination and yarn spinning abilities voila!! you've got an excuse tailor-made for the occasion.

A perfect monday morning it was. Boring and hard to handle. Or that's what it was till 10:30 AM. The tired 17 got on a lift to go down from fourth floor to ground floor. Little did we know what was in store for us. With a sudden jolt, and without a screeching halt that you have come to see in many a movie , the lift stopped. Just stopped. Like that.

A group roar went on for what seemed like ten seconds. Never having been caught in a lift before we felt jubilant. Of the 17 present there one tried pressing the alarm but in vain (Thank God!!). What ensued was one unforgettable incident.

17

Cast :
ALagappan
Anbarasu
Anand
Kaushik
Venoth
Sharanyan
Siva Visakan
Sidaardh
Krishnaraj
Karthik
Vibhu
Ganesa
Shri Hari
Vignesha
Kabilan
Vinoth
Dinesh
CS department OHP(Should I call it 18??)

Situation:
Shot totally in and around Y- block elevator with the climax going upto the fourth floor of E-block.

Gist:
The story of the brave 17 who survived 45 minutes trapped in a lift with thinning air and flickering lights before people came to their aid but not before they hatched a brilliant plan to escape monday misery.

The story:


.....There was no room for panic in that lift
. We were having so much fun. I mentally crossed out one more on my LIST-OF-THINGS - TO-DO-BEFORE-I-DIE list. Only three people panicked a bit. One of them panicked a lot. Vignesha was his name.

"Dudes..all of you don't talk much da. You'll breathe in more air" ( Which movie did he get that from??)

"All of you switch off your cell phones da. Only one of you keep his on. Battery save pannalaam." (Oh yea why don't you do yoga for consuming lesser air too?? What was he thinking?? Staying there for 5 days??)

Thank heavens some of them had their mobiles with them. Different songs played on the many Nokias and sonys. People danced. We looked as drenched as dogs int he rain. So much sweat. Confined space you see. The fan also had stopped running and one of the emergency lights went out too. Time for a collective cheer!

That's when we decided too much fun is senseless and called a friend for help. We also called the infodesk. They had summoned the people concerned who had to come all the way from the power house ( wherever that was ). The time was 10 45. 15 minutes had passed.

15 minutes later...
We heard sounds of people working. We called up a friend and told him we were suffocating ust to make the work go on quicker!! :P. The poor fellow told that to the workers and immediately after he finished talking they heard sounds of whislting from inside the lift . " oh yea suffocating people whistle and dance about!!!"

Cameras clicked. Group photos were taken. For the innocent bystander, the photo would have looked just like one of 17 guys on a field trip. That was how it turned out. We even took mock vidoes of our last words.It took 15 more minutes for them to lever us down. 16 and the OHP got out. Then there was a twist. Exactly when the 17th kept one foot out. KARRRRRRUUNCHHHH! the elevetor lurched up. A quick jump and he was safe! Group hugs galore. Even the OHP got a hug!

Then the mission began. We were not in the mood for some boring lecture. Monday God suddenly became merciful and thus an idea sprang in our heads. The class reps somehow got morning hours cancelled. That was the easy part. Afternoon had chemistry and computer organisation in store. Vibhu and me stepped up to the plate. We went with a plan well hatched to cut eve classes too.

The sir was a wary one too...A few excerpts of his dialogues..

"We sud ( not a typo!) always look for the welfare of the candidates pa...".."But as fer ( again) the college norms I cannot grant leave pa. " Talks went on about how he could not grant leave for 62 just because 17 were stuck in a lift. Then we delivered the masterblow. Stories of tell tale dehydration, fainting, and exhaustion came as free as molten butter. Better was the fact that he believed them!!! Adding to the already perfect reason was the fact that I choked on my chewing gum when he said that welfare thing!! As it turned out he mistook it for an "exhaustion cough". all hail fruity daddy (Kaniappan!).

They say all is well that ends well. It ended with us eating a bit at Rv cakes and a few playing cricket and me going home to watch a movie. Fun way to cut college eh?