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These days, Ash has a new favorite word: Arrrgh! and she uses it frequently to express bouts of frustration. I rib her whenever she uses it. But something happened this weekend that made me steal her word and use it more emphatically. I bet you will too when I am done explaining.
Let me start at the beginning. My roomie left the apartment mid-semester and I am left with the arduous task of finding a roomie when no one is looking to move. Nevertheless, I posted an ad on the mailing list and got two phone enquiries. The first one failed to turn up and the second one called in almost 2 hours late to let me know that she was on her way. Right now, I am not getting into explaining why I am open to having a female roommate but I decided what is the harm in letting her have a look before I decide, right?
Not having included my address in the message, I was having a hard time trying to explain where exactly my apartment was located and she on the other end didn’t seem to understand or relate to any of the many landmarks I told her [I live very close to the town’s entertainment and bar district, Northgate so usually directions are easy]. But when she didn’t even get the major highlights of the area, I was hoping to see a stereotypical dumb blonde with a sheepish grin soon. I was already pissed that she had called late and this directions mix-up was gradually eating into my study time.
Finally, when she couldn’t even get to my home from the football stadium which is hardly a 2-3 minute drive from my place, I decided to go fetch her. The fact that it was the frikkin coldest day in Texas didn’t help either. I asked her to meet me in the parking lot of the most-easily identified landmark in College Station – Kyle Field (the football stadium). I parked right under the humungous sign that announced its legendary name [and also under a sign that was flashing 32F].
She still couldn’t get there and said, she was in the parking lot but couldn’t see my bright blue car (there were hardly 10-15 cars in the huge lot). I asked her to meet me on the opposite side of the road bang opposite the Recreation Center. Surely everyone in the university knows where that is, right? She still couldn’t get to me. I was driving around aimlessly hoping a cop wouldn’t stop me because I had forgotten to take my license along. Finally, I drove back to the stadium and when she [still] couldn’t get to me, she asked me if I was talking about the University of Utah. I was like, heck no…I am in Texas A&M, College Station. She was talking from Salt Lake City, Utah and here I was driving around College Station Texas trying to meet up with her. I laughed aloud and uttered the aaaaargh!
I have no clue how in the hell my message to the Aggie Google group got to her in Utah (Google glitch?) No wonder, she didn’t get my references to landmarks. It also doesn’t help that every college town in the U.S. has a University St./Blvd/Ave. and also College Station has a library next to the post office that she kept referring to. Every college campus has a humungous football field. It also explained the weird area code of her phone number (after I looked it up online, it was indeed from Utah) but it is common for students in remote campus towns to have other area code phone numbers; I have one rooted in Atlanta. She wasn’t a late latif either; she was just calling at 10:30 PST and not 10:30 CST. Finally, it boiled down to the fact that I was driving around aimlessly trying to meet up with a person who also was driving around aimlessly…in a different city and a different time zone.
I reposted the ad; this time with a prominent Mapquest link.
by Patrix | on Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006 at 12:00 am | 
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February 22nd, 2006 at 7:22 am reply
tu dumb blond nikla re. funny..i had a similar one.might post it someday.
February 22nd, 2006 at 9:07 am reply
haha!!! r u sure it wasn’t someone jus playing a huge prank on you ;o) Alpha?! :D
btw i read “what is the harm in letting her have a look before I decide, right” as …”what is the harm in having a look at her before I decide!!”
I know I’m gonna get belted either by you or Ash…so ciao! :D
February 22nd, 2006 at 9:17 am reply
Shub, LOL !
Not to worry, decision to consider having a female roommate was taken after due ‘permission’ from me. Although I was in College Station too, ready to give her the once-over :P
Though I am grinning over ” hoping to see a stereotypical dumb blonde with a sheepish grin soon “
Freudian slip, P ?
February 22nd, 2006 at 10:18 am reply
Alpha, I am not surprised that such a thing has already happened to you. You seem to have the most wackiest incidents (or at least make it seem so with added mirch-masala). But you’re right, mera full popat ho gaya.
Shub, now now, you aren’t supposed to reveal the inner workings of my mind on my blog ;)
Ash, Nah! I prefer brunettes and redheads too :)As is said in Shawshank Redemption, hope is a dangerous thing.
February 22nd, 2006 at 9:22 pm reply
shub! shub sub bolo..wish i cud think of that kind of a prank..aha..let see who cud I trap.
patty/ash: is this some kind of testing your relationship strategies?? having a female roomie that is.
i wudnt trust patty with any girl.
February 22nd, 2006 at 9:28 pm reply
Alpha, yaar gaddar…this is how you sow doubts in innocent Ash’s mind. But Shub seems to have given you an idea. I expect to hear about it when it is implemented but don’t try it on me; I have your number. But anyway, now what’s the use of thinking about that. It would have been a long commute for her to U of UT.
February 25th, 2006 at 10:10 am reply
Something similar actually happened to me - although I did not have to run around as much as you did. My car broke down near my apartment and I needed to have it towed to the garage - called AAA and they put me through to a towing company. As I was trying to give directions to the towing guy, it didn’t seem like he knew any of the roads or landmarks I was talking about. Initially I just thought the guy was just stupid or new to the city and finally it emerged that he was located in Rochester, MN, while I was in Rochester, NY. !!
February 25th, 2006 at 11:34 am reply
BongoPundit, that’s priceless :) now I don’t feel so bad.
February 26th, 2006 at 12:03 am reply
hahahahhaha, now thats a classic “Priceless Moment” , P!
totally priceless!