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A midnight
Priyanka Devpal
furniture heist
t is no secret that LH lacked basic
amenities- our rooms did not have and they half- heartedly agreed to join us in
study tables or chairs and our creaky nicking some furniture.
beds were loud enough to wake up So at midnight, all five of us ventured out into
Ipeople in the next room whenever we the dark corridors of LH and stumbled upon a
tossed and turned in sleep. study chair. It looked alright to us, except the
So when we finally got a room for the 5 of woven base was somewhat shabby. I decided
us in the latter part of 1st year (funny that it to sit on it to make sure that it is fit for use
sounded like a luxury at the time), we decided and the next thing I remember is being stuck
to make ourselves comfortable. Because, why on that chair as the torn base gave way. My
not? four best friends around me were howling
with laughter. The dimwits were totally
Now, those who stayed in LH will remember unaware that they could run away if anyone
that there was furniture lying around in came around to check but I couldn’t because
corridors that didn’t belong to any particular I was stuck… Literally… After some reasoning
room. Relocating some of these to our room and much pleading, they finally came to their
where we could actually use them can’t be senses and pulled me out of the bloody chair.
really called theft, can it? And how can people
blame us for not being studious if we don’t Needless to say, our dismal academic
have even a chair to sit down and study? performance in 1st year didn’t show any signs
Sreeja and I managed to convince the more of improvement due to lack of appropriate
morally upright Ami, Anitha and Reshma ( furniture.
in that order ;-) ) with these rational excuses
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2K1 MBBS, Trivandrum Medical College
