Popcorn Crunch
Thu, Oct 15, 2009
"I hate programming! I hate computers even more! There’s nothing wrong with this program. It’s absolutely correct. Still this stupid compiler says Error on line 32.
There is nothing on line 32. Line 32 is blank!"
Shilps put her head down in frustration.
“There’s a semi-colon missing on line 31”, Aniket murmured.
“There’s what?” She got up and gave him a glare.
“Aherm. There’s a semi-colon missing after the statement on line 31.”
“Well. Um, okay, so it’s missing. But the machine is still stupid; it says Error on line 32!” She kept staring the screen, avoiding eye contact.
“Not exactly. It parses the line and then generates an error message.
The newer compiler returns the correct line, current one was always like this.”
“Oh, you know it all don’t you? Smartass. I am still not talking to you by the way.”
“And how long do you think, you’re gonna keep this up?”
She folded her arms and held her chin up. “That’s up to you. You started the fight. You apologize and we’ll talk, simple.”
“Me? I started the fight?”
“Well, I said I wanted Caramel popcorn didn’t I?”
“And I did get caramel and salted mixed. It’s the same.”
“It’s not the same.” A few heads turned in the class and she lowered her voice. “It’s not the same. I wanted just Caramel”
“And, what about me? I like salted” he defended.
“So you should have got one for yourself.”
“I don’t get that much pocket money. I could barely afford two movies on a weekend.”
“You could have said so. I said we should Dutch. Its not like we’re dating or anything”
“I just don’t let girls pay in my company” he said proudly.
“Your loss then, chauvinist. You should have got me caramel.”
“Seriously? I mean, seriously! You want to fight over Popcorn? Next time I’ll get you ‘just caramel’, okay?”
“So you’re apologizing?”
“No!”
“Not talking then…”
“Alright", he hanged his head in defeat, "Am Sorry!”
Tags: Flash Fiction, Humor
Wow! This is sooo real! Happens all the time with me… Of course, I’m the one seeking apology.
I’m assuming it must’ve happened to you too. Didn’t it?
Not EXACTLY!
I mixed up two incidents between me and my best friend from school days.
We’re always looking for reasons to fight.
Part of the conversation happened over ‘Wake up Sid’ and obviously I’ve spiced it up a bit.
The day I fight over popcorn is the day I’m looking for any excuse to fight! Besides, you should tell her that the mixing of sweet and salty is more appealing to the entire tongue, and you were just trying to represent the two of you… Oh, Aniket. You can take her!
We fight over all the nonsense things in the world. And all fights end with one saying to another ‘How long are you not gonna talk?’
And well, about the ‘take her’ part. She is really gorgeous. I mean totally smashin’ and all.
But we are in the friend zone now. Been great friends for nearly a decade. So nothing fishy here.
On re-read, it sure looks like a killer pick up line.
Looks like, you’ve had you’re fair share of trouble with boys.
Huh..? girls act so stupid sometimes
Happened with me so many times..so stopped taking them to movies
Good one buddy, i loved it till the end
I can’t imagine watching a Hindi movie without her company. We talk and irritate people most of the time.
And I can afford 2 popcorns now, but still mix it with salted ones intentionally.
Dump her quick!!
Now I’m hungry for caramel, thanks a LOT Aniket.
We were never together in the first place.
Rush, rush to the nearest theater.
rofl! you have just written a page outta my life.. girls can be demanding sometimes and boys don’t know when 2 shut up and just listen!
good writing..
Well, at least you are one to admit it.
If she finds this post somehow, am in serious trouble.
You know, even if this scene was somewhat tongue in cheek, and lighthearted, you did a nice job of showing her beating him into submission. With just her words, and sense of entitlement. Good dialogue, Aniket.
Look what you get for trying to be kind at every turn! I mean, geesh. Just complete humiliation and defeat.
Nah, these kinds of friendships can be playful and fun. Especially when we’re young. I can see her with a twinkle in her eye.
And c’mon, Aniket…caramel IS the superior popcorn.
Only when we’re young? You’re scaring me…
And with her I admit, I cannot win…
Well to be honest, a part of me never wants her to get married.
And puhlease caramel is just too sweet!
Yeah, he’s over-matched. The apology was inevitable.
Great dialogue! I love programming, btw.
Coders rule! And come on, you must hate caramel too! The ladies are just killing me out here.