The Chronicles of Roy - The Exodus

In the first year of college, the life was tough; we had to bear ragging in any amusing form it would present itself, assignments by seniors, crappy food, filthy toilets and not to forget the academics. We all perspired to be good students, in vain. It was tough to suddenly get used to the college setup when we were just out of school. In school, teachers were friendlier but here the porfs were a mixed breed of Genghis Khan and Adolf Hitler. One particular prof, who taught microprocessors
, was so horrible we feared he would be conducting blood sucking rituals on the full moon nights. Anyways, there we were, spent an entire night on the railway platform and rushed to hostel for the morning lecture of microprocessors in the computer lab and in a jiffy all forgot that there was an assignment to done for that class. The prof arrived; he was a Bihari with a hilarious accent in Hindi and a very odd Italian accent when he would speak English. The first thing he did always was to clear his throat so violently that one could hear the cough in his bronchia rising up in bubbles. So just like Julius Caesar, he came he saw and he gargled. And then he inquired about the assignment. There was a pin drop silence, only a pin wasn’t dropped. He said “jaun jaun assignment nahi kiye hain jara khade ho jaiye”. Half the class stood up. He gave a horizontally oscillating head gesture that made us feel like we are the dregs from the underground and as he was moving his gaze from one to another he noticed a pineapple faced boy standing in quintessential confusion. He shouted “Mr. Roy, start the exodus”. Now whoever knew the meaning of word exodus, was looking up to him to lead us out of the class as Moses led the children of Israel out of Egypt, but alas! Roy was short on vocabulary. The word exodus to him was like every other new technical word we came across each day like pneumatic pressure or Darlington pair. And as always he tried to relate the word with the subject for the class and all he could think was that exodus might be another word for the CPU of the computer. The poor boy got down and switched on the CPU. It was seen by the prof that he couldn’t attend that class for next 30 days.