I am Roger Federer II, I cant play with you...

Its been 2 months since we moved in to the new apartment. Lot of Indians around but not friendly ones. Well thats not exactly the subject of this write-up. Once when we were busy with our usual laundry chore, we met one of the Indian lot. Sarathy spoke to him introducing himself and I joined in. Since I make friends easily and I wanted to befriend some of the Indian lot in the neighbourhood, joined Sarathy in the conversation. The guy literally was on his heels and tried to run away and after much persuasion uttered his name or should I say mumbled? He was like "My name is cham"? We were like what? He went on again "Chame" faking an american accent which sucked big time and Sarathy was like "Sorry, we did not get ur name, Is it C H A M Y". He continued his mumbling "Chamee", "Palanichamy". Oh my god! Idhukku ivvalo build-upaa?

We got his number and gave him a call few days later and invited him home with his family to which he mumbled something as usual. Seri, ivanukku friends aaga ishtham illaiyonnu vittutum(Looks like this fellow does not want to be friends with us). All this happened a month back.

Sarathy and I wanted to play some outdoor sports. I am more of a badminton player having learnt it professionally in chennai and Sarathy likes to play basketball. We reached a consensus and decided to play Tennis as there were 2 nice tennis courts in our apartment complex. So we went ahead and bought rackets and handful of tennis balls and ventured out last monday evening. We were in the midst of a ralley when this Mokkachamy oops Palanichamy with his better-half made his entry. His wife walked towards me and introduced herself and while we were exchanging pleasantries, this guy went and stood in the middle of the court with hands on his hips a la (Balarama pose). This gal told me "Why dont we play doubles? You and your husband on one side and Me and my husband on the other!". I said "I have no problem. Lets play!". To everyone's surprise or shock, this guy made a BIG FUSS for 10 mins refusing to play and uttered "You are all beginners. I cant play with a beginner!" loudly.

Man...I got royally pissed off! What the hell does he think of himself? How can anyone say like that especially since we were already playing at the court. Whats funny is this guy has been playing just for the past 10 days.I dont know what his wife said to him, he yielded in. By then I asked Sarathy to ask him to leave and come back after 10-15 mins as we would be done playing by then. Sarathy told him the same profusely but he relented to his wife's decision...And we played for 15 - 30 mins. Hmm...Wonder what made me write this...but I then read Srini's account of his cricket match with some Infy guys at Newyork and crazy attitude of one of them when they were on the verge of losing.http://imsaiiyer.blogspot.com/2006/07/cricket-sandai.html

Dont know why such specimens are around. This bugger irked me so much. He was like "I am roger federer II". You are "no-one". Wonder whether this pain of a guy knew who Roger Federer or Marcos or Nadal were.

I guess that there's a bane or curse as far as tamilians socialising is concerned. We cant let anyone join our already formed group a la wolf-club but would mock or ridicule when fellow Gujjus, Mallus, Bongs, Gults co-exist in harmony or socialise.