Confident Gutso's Unwitting Faux Pas

          This post is about a dude I met in IMS one year back, who’s studying electrical engineering in C.E.T. The dude is a very self confident person with an extraneous amount of guts. He will be the first to jump out of his seat, be it group discussion or debate or role playing or any kind of activity. So for namesake let’s call him Gutso. In short, Gutso is active, pro-active, hyper-active, retro-active, radio-active, you get my drift right? But little did he know that, at times, not looking before leaping can land up in making some of the worst social gaucheries.

Scenario: Classroom in IMS

        The usual class was over and SK sir decided to conduct a mock interview session for us. Now hearing that Gutso sprung up from his chair zealously, volunteering to be the 1st participant. The interview began; SK sir started asking the routine, trite questions and Gutso is confidently retorting with the perfect answers. Suddenly SK asked an unusual question and that’s when the fun began.

SK: How many friends do you have?
Gutso: I don’t take count of my friends.
SK: How many girlfriends do you have?
Gutso: Not much. About 4 or 5.
SK: 4 or 5!!
Gutso: Not in “that” sense, they are just friends.
SK: Why don’t you have any girlfriend in “that” sense?
Gutso: Naa, I’m not that interested in the opposite sex.
SK: So you’re interested in the same sex???
Gutso: !!!!!!  (Boom!! End of Story for Gutso)

        The class became silent for a moment which was followed by a wild outrage of laughters and guffaws. Gutso slapping his head realizing the gaffe he just made. The ever confident Gutso felt a temporary draining away of confidence. Rumors are there that Gutso started receiving a lot of phone calls and anonymous messages from creepy gays following that incident. Anyway, the gusto in Gutso subdued, temporarily though.

Epilogue:

        The real inspiration for this post is a scrapbook conversation in Orkut between Gutso and Botsu that I fortuitously happened to read yesterday. Botsu at the time is really mad about the recent publication of his bloopers by me (which can be seen in the previous post), and is desperately trying to save his so called dignity. The chat goes like this:

Gutso: Hey Botsu , I read Thomas’s blog. Would like to see you in person for more details.
Botsu: I felt like ripping Thomas’s head. You didn’t believe anything he wrote, right??
Gutso: I did believe and lots of witnesses confirmed it. And I should say it was really funny.
Botsu: Funny!! Guess you’ve proved that you have a rotten sense of humour.
Gutso: Ya ya, great. Is the baby about to cry or raging with puny vengeance over his petty kindergarten shenanigans being known all over, take a break sonny, GROW UP, that look at you from a distance & improve your decaying “impress-chicks-concepts”; Only my humour is rotten!! What about your nuts & brains; I pity, even worse, it has decayed beyond recognition, not to mention your “who’s-the-man” ego.

Though I didn’t quite understand what Gutso meant (I’m sure even Botsu might have scratched his head reading the reply), I thought it would be worth posting it in here.

P.S. Gutso is in fact very much heterosexual as far as I know. The gaffe during the mock interview was due to a momentary twist of tongue, says he. So creepy gays out there, please leave Gutso alone, he's not interested.