Kangaroo!

I embarked on foot a rather soothing evening today, with the rain having made the unrest of the hot day calm. I actually had to take refuge under the tin roof of a shop near Permit Field. Piyush, who accompanied me on the stroll, took out his cell phone startled by the vibration in his pants…

 “Dude! Sardar apna password kya rakhte hai bol”

“Sardar?” , I said, scratching my head.

“Incorrect!”, he retorted.

“What did I say now?”, I was confused even more.

“Abey, their password is ‘INCORRECT’, taaki jab wo koi galat password  de toh wahan reply aaye  - PASSWORD –INCORRECT!”

We couldn`t help cackling enough to realize people noticing us.

But it surely sent a train of thoughts down my mind then. Try and remember the first time you tried to think of a smart password for your e-mail id or chat client. Not easy as you thought, you realized? In my case,suddenly I had this brainwave and lifted up the mouse-pad on the desk . “CORTEX,  hmm… good one”. And so my first password became CORTEX6489…yeah some alphanumeric crap. I didn`t know what else to think! This other time I asked my sister to create an e-mail id when I was in class 7…turned out, when she asked what password I would like to add on, I quietly took the keyboard to myself and typed some letters in a jiffy. Of course, the passwords didn`t match during the confirmation! Worse, my sister says, “Give me the keyboard idiot…Now what was the girl`s name you were typing? This time say it letter-by-letter.” I 

saw a sweat trickle down my smiling face in a room temperature of 16 degrees.

I never had problems forming new passwords since then. I could create ‘fireash689’ or ‘deathzone89’ in a blink. The problem always started when I couldn`t remember the kinky titles or matching the correct password with the correct account and then went through the painful procedure of ‘FORGOT PASSWORD?’ in an annoyingly slow dial-up connection…if you know what I mean. Then there was this intelligent thought in my mind one day-“Kyun na PASSWORD ko hi password rakha jaye? Bah! I am a genius”. The following day, someone opened up my yahoo account and sent some disgruntled mails to his boss, I suppose, judging by the words and kind of language he had used. Found out that BSNL fixes the passwords of the modems as PASSWORD and that I was using the internet on the computer connected to the new modem…the rest you may infer.

And there`s always the password starring the name of the gal you wouldn`t dare to ask out in your life and yet you have had already pictured both of you every day and night in the happily-ever-after photo frame. To those people I say - Do something soon or you`ll end up naming your daughter the same after your folks marry you off somewhere else!  Some of my friends, even I have a similar syndrome…but as I told u…I am a genius at innovating passwords! Not to mention I am terrible at remembering them.

A distinct event I remember happened when I suspected Ranjan was after some girl. It had to be his password! So when the guy was finding the keys on the keyboard to punch in his password, I simply clicked on the dialog box where he wrote his e-mail id. ‘…ANGAROO’, is what I saw on the box. I was laughing my ass off when Ranjan realized what he had done.

“I thought tu kissi ladki ka naam likha hai!”, I was disappointed.

After a string of slangs, he said “Saale aisa karega naa be!”

My belly ache laughing all the while. “Abey! Ladki chhod…jaanwar ka naam last me password diya?”

It was when he too joined the jest. Then all of a sudden he became serious and said “Please be…kissi ko mat 

batana”.  That was the punch line. It was so hilarious, ‘Kangaroo’ became the slogan of the day among us friends.

Password is a pretty hot stuff to handle. Keep it safe keep it cherishing…please don’t keep it ‘KANGAROO’   ;)