Thinking aloud

Messenger misunderstandings April 14, 2006

Messengers are cool, but many times they can be troublesome,
especially when you wanna have some “serious” talk rather
than just time pass. First of all in case the connection is
slow (like mine), the messages may be received out-of-order.
This is what has happened many times with me:

Me:Hello,you there??
….
No reply from the other guy

….
Me:Busy with something??
The other guy:yup
Me:OK then bye…
TOG:Naa re wela hoon…
Me:yeh kya abhi kaha busy
ab kah raha hai wela

…

What happens is the other guy was replying to the first
message when I was expecting the second one and so on… In
this case MSN and Google Talk are better than Yahoo
messenger,in MSN/Google, it will notify you when the other
person doesn’t get your message, whereas in yahoo you never
know ki the person is getting your messages or not.

But many times even if messenger is faithful, still there
can be misunderstandings. Yesterday, I was chatting with one
senior. He is the head of College Robotics Club. As most
people in our college don’t like to work on “techie” things,
so he always has a tough time keeping people motivated to
work in robotics.

He had to cancel a meeting of club and wasn’t happy about
it. And at the same time there was one other common friend
online. This is what happened.

Me:Hi bhai kya haal hai…(to
the common friend)
Mukhi:Achha hoon
Me:Aur kya chal raha hai
aaj-kal??
Mukhi:Kuchhh khaas nai yaar.
Mukhi:A bit busy rite
now,chatting with Vin also..

……

In the meanwhile me and Vin(the senior) were chatting..

Vin:Yaar maine kal meeting
bulai hai..
ME:Lekin….kal to chhuti
hai!!
Vin:Oh fir to meething
cancel karni padegi..
……after few
minutes…..
Vin:Main mukhi se baat kar
raha hoon..
Me:Yeh achha hai!!
Me:Tum dono baat karte
rahoge to main kya karoonga??

Vin:OYE I AM FED UP WITH
YOU GUYS.
…..I get a shock,yeh kya
ho gaya ise…..
Vin:TUMHE KYA LAGTA HAI
MUJHE KOI KAAM NAI HAI…
…..After listening to his
furious words for few more minutes…..

Me:Yeh kya ho gaya tumhe??
Achanak itna gussa kis baat pe aa raha hai?

…..He continued with more ranting…….

10-15 minutes ke baad pata chala ki he thought I said “Yeh
achha hai” in reply to his “meeting cancel karni padegi”!!!!
He said that “main mukhi se baat kar raha hoon” part was
just a side note while the meeting wali baat was the main
topic……..Finally we decided that in future,we should
chat face-to-face only. Warna pata chala ki dono ek baat kah
rahe they lekin fir bhi ladai ho gai!!!

2 Comments:

The_Girl_From_Ipanema said…

haan yaar-messenger
misunderstandings have happened way too many times in my
life. so much that i hate using it now to chat with friends,
beyond hi, hello ..

8:39 PM, April 16, 2006

Sumit Tada said…

TGFI

Finally koi to mila mere jaisa, warna sabhi mujhe hi dosh
dete hain ki tere saath hi yeh hota hai!!

9:51 PM, April 16, 2006

Hi April 14, 2006

Posted by Sumit Tada in Uncategorized.
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Disclaimer:
who says you cant have
totally useless and foolish posts on YOUR blog?? No one
naa,so here is this totally foolish post. Read at your own
risk,I have already warned you!!

What happens when you say “hi” to someone or wave
hands for someone standing at a distance and the other
person doesn’t look in your direction?? Or maybe even worse,
when you wave at someone thinking he/she is your friend but
who turns out to be some unknown??

Well,today I was on the other side of story. Today
morning,while on my usual walk, I suddenly saw one of my
classmates(whose home was nearby), coming form the other
side of road, was smiling, looking in my general direction.
Now there was one more lady walking in front of me, so I
thought maybe she (my classmate) was saying something to her
(the other lady,who looked like some kaam-wali-bai). But I
wasn’t sure, so gave back a meekish-smile. Finally the
classmate gave a-whats-wrong-with-you-cant-say-hi look and
went inside her home, before I could reach it.

Ok,it wasn’t a big deal and maybe she dint even notice it
but still I could feel that it does make you feel a bit
uncomfortable. And incidentally, few days ago,the same girl,
sitting next to me on college stairs, waved at a guy going
on the road in front. After the guy went away, giving her a
confused look, she realised he wasn’t the one she thought
him to be!!

My personal advice to her,which I myself follow is: give
some time to the other person to respond and better still,
just wait before he/she comes close enough to identify!!

P.S. (only for the
lady of our class):if you thought ki main chep ho jaoonga,
then lemme assure you, I wont, especially at 7:30 in
morning! So, no harm in pausing for a moment or two,isn’t
it??