A Metro Menu (Part II)—The Amazing Amiyo

I can easily remember Amiyo, our class-mate( a one of his kind boy who deserved himself to be a real know-all). A rather plump figure with a pair of specs having glasses made from the base of two tea-glasses . Sitting usually on the front rows he tried to give an impression to the teachers that whenever they would search for an answer from the students he must be the first choice to ask. And then the scene. When a question being asked, he stood up like a confident looking one. At first his body language showed he was ready to deliver the most appropriate answer. He swayed his hands frantically with words coming out like waterfalls from his mouth. But the teacher could not realize a single point. Then he helplessly started scratching his head (which almost reminded us of a perfect nest of a bird) as if Einstein was trying to describe his E=MC2 in front of a bunch of hollow brains. Obviously the teacher could not realize this and finally we saw him standing on the bench or kneeling down outside the classroom. But that never deterred him from doing the same act in the very next class.

Last year in Durga Puja (Durga Festival) he took a bet with his group that emptying a 750 ml. of McDowell alone would take a seven and half minute spell to him and that too without taking anything. In reality, everyone in the vicinity heard a shrilling voice tearing apart the area that night at 3 a.m. telling someone “It’s not fair that you three attacking a helpless guy like me at a time. Come one by one.” It was heard that after consuming a quarter of it Amiyo went k.o. Some times later when others were busy in playing cards he wanted to stand up but failed. Seeing this, Bhoja, a stoically-built- partially-crack, who was sitting next to him getting some fellow-feeling oozing out just like volcanic eruption and therefore tried to help him. So Amiyo stood like the Leaning Tower of Pisa over Bhoja's shoulder and moments later he showed his gratitude to Bhoja by gushing out everything from his stomach to all over him. Every one was ready to watch a live bull fight as Bhoja was now gradually marching towards Amiyo like a raging bull. Then came that utmost cry of him as he still seeing one into three. However, at the end he was saved by all of the others present there.