World's most Strange Fine!!!

It was our Machine Design -3 paper. As usual Anna taught us few chapters which were enough to get through. In all there are 6 compulsory questions in university exams. We did thorough analysis of previous papers and came to a conclusion that only 5 chapters out of 10 are enough to pass.

We entered the exam hall. Everyone in the class was equally worried about the paper. Luckily the supervisor was lenient and moreover the paper was easy. we completed our paper well before time. One thing that was common between myself, Lokesh and Anna was that we wrote the numerical's answers on the question paper. It was just for verification after exams. One hour was still remaining and as we had nothing to do we got restless. An external examiner entered the class to confirm that nobodys is cheating. He found out that lokesh has written something on his question paper and asked him to leave the classroom immediately. He went out and started packing his bag when he saw me coming out for the same reason. He started laughing and said, "Tu bhi??" and it made me laugh too. We were about to leave the corridors and we saw Anna coming out. We could not control our laughter and bursted out. Anna started laughing too.

Little did we knew the consequences of it. The external examiner was wathcing us laugh. He thought we are making fun of him and immediately escalated the matter and asked the principal (Paddy) to disallow us from appearing any further papers. Paddy said, "I'll make sure that they wont complete their course this year". Before saying this statement he didnt know that the guys were we. Paddy summoned us to his office. We, still trying to control the laughter reached his cabin. When Paddy saw Anna he knew he can't do anything. How can a principal debar a university ranker?

He started thinking about what should be done. And to buy some time, he asked us

"Do you have any reason for this?"

It was quite clear for us because we were not making fun of the examiner. It was a situational comedy. We started explaining,

Lokesh: "Sir, we live for the moment and we don't like crying for the past bad things that happened. Whenever there is some tough paper or any other situation wherein people decide to give up, we LAUGH. We were just trying not to be emotional."

Anna: "Yes Sir. Previous paper of SOM was the toughest paper we ever faced in our engineering. But after reaching hostel we laughed out loud and that made us ready to face next paper with even more confidence".

Can you even imagine someone's saying this to the Principal of engineering college? We DID!!!

Me:"Sir we accept the place was wrong but our intentions were not what you are thinking. From next time onwards we will make sure that we don't create such nuisance." (This was my favorite line. One of our Teachers taught me this)

Paddy: "Such things cannot be tolerated in Campus. You can go back to hostel and laugh as much as you want but not in the campus. You should pay a fine of Rs 100/- each before appearing for next paper. You may go now"

Anna, Lokesh & Me in Unison: "Thank You Sir"

We should have said Sorry instead ;)

After coming out of the office, it was even harder to control our laughter. Somehow we went to the billing counter and told the lady that we are asked to pay fine and here is the money.

She asked: "Fine for what?"

Lokesh: "For laughing in the campus" and started laughing again.

Confused with the scenario, she took the fine and gave us reciepts. We cam out of the office and started laughing again.... this time for paying fine for such a wierd reason.