7.11.08

"Well, fuck me!"

He always said that. It was his thing. To have met him was to have heard him say it. With variations. Alternative stress-points, dramatised delivery, multiple exclamation points, the works.

After the initial shock/amusement, people just got used to it. They barely registered the actual words, but instead focused on trying to gauge the emotions that accompanied their expression.

Towards the end, he began saying it more frequently, and at the very last, that was the only thing he would say. It didn't matter if you bumped into him after months, or if you'd been seeing him every day, or if you were talking music, or discussing politics over dinner, or even just playing chess. That's all you would hear, those three words, again and again and again, the only notes emerging from the record as it wound down to its scratchy little end.

It was only later that they realised why.

Nobody ever had.

10 comments:

Unknown said...

nice :-)

HP said...

hah! brilliant build up :P

Shammi said...

aw, the poor thing :)

km said...

:)

Goes to show directness in communication only takes you so far.

Anonymous said...

Brilliant!

Anonymous said...

actually LOL by the end!!!
all this while......he wanted it dat badly....n the rest thought it was just a takiyakalam....:D

Anonymous said...

awww! we really oughtn't be smiling :-)

??! said...

All:
Thankee.

And for those showing sympathy - the dude could've just asked nicely, no?

Neha:
Hello and welcome.

dipali said...

So sad. Poor guy.

FifthBeatle said...

Bloody hell! I didn't know people had taken to writing about me!