I got the visa, but I almost got lucky too
June 29, 2004 · No Comments
It went something like this:
Consulate guy(CG): What’s your undergraduate degree in?
Me: Fashion Design
CG: And you have a Masters in Sociology
Me: That’s right
CG: And you’re going to a business school…
CG: … to get an MS?
Me: Would you like me to explain that officer?
CG: (looks behind me at the queue of “normal” students with an undergrad in CS and a masters in… guess what? CS! )
CG: No, that’s alright. Your passport will reach you in 2-3 days.
So I got the damn thing. That wasn’t the high point of my day though.
I had an appointment to check my eyes later in the afternoon. By what turned out to be a rather pretty young thing who liked gazing into my eyes. Of course, like all good romances, ours began with a small conflict:
Pretty young doctor(PYD): Do you have any problems with your spectacles?
Me: Yes, the anti-glare coating attracts too many fingerprints.
PYD: So what do you do about it?
Me: Wipe it.
PYD: (stern voice) With what?
Me: You know, the usual - t-shirts… jeans…sand-paper… domex.
PYD: (glares at me in an entirely un-doctorly way. I like that)
But soon what was supposed to be an hour and a half’s appointment dragged on to a 3 hour flirt-fest.
PYD: Notice the tip of this pen?
Me: Yes.
PYD: Hold it in your hand and move it closer to your nose. In your other hand hold this picture of two cats.
PYD: At a certain point both cats will appear to merge into one.
Me: But I prefer 2 cats to 1 cat.
PYD: After a while, when you bring the pen even closer, the 2 cats will appear as four
Me: Ah, 4 cats is even better
PYD: (Trying hard to look serious and doctorly while avoiding obvious pun. I like that).
We had our moments too:
PYD: Your spectacle power has gone down
Me: Hallelujah! (I do the happy dance with a retinal imaging device because PYD is glaring at me.)
PYD: Please get down from my table, It’s only down by .000000025 points.
(I notice that retinal imaging devices can’t dance to save their lives. It’s a good thing they don’t have to)
Me: Thank you so much. This was my first time.
PYD: (more glaring)
Me: I mean, this is the first time (mumble mumble) actually gone down.
PYD: (even more glaring)
But it was finally time to break up (considering my parents had been waiting outside for all this while, about high time too):
PYD: Here’s your prescription. Remember to do all the exercises.
Me: You bet. Can I have those cats please?
PYD: You mean the cat picture?
Me: Yeah, whatever.
So that was that. It was special while it lasted.
So I was relating this episode to a certain someone:
Me: Hey baby, good news. My spectacle power’s gone down by .000000025 - it’s only -7.999999975 now!
Certain Someone(CS): Wasn’t it 12 before?
Me: No baby, you got it all mixed up. That’s my di**.
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