Attraction and Chastity - Episode 4

The Googlie Rounds
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Recap: Prompted by Nattu's mail, Gattu has given his intro and has asked Nattu for hers.

so our man Gattu is waiting for Nattu's intro. and it comes in like this...

"i dont give my intro to strangers".

???? Gattu is confused. what the hell is that supposed to mean!!? dint she say he had reached the right person and asked of him to tell a lil bout himself ? and now, ma'am says she doesnt give her intro to strangers!. I am as confused by Nattu's response as Gattu is and at a loss what shud be done. But the email has to be replied to cos Gattu is a hard core optimist and is not ready to entertain the thought that Nattu has just blown him off like that. So he writes back..

"unless we talk the stranger status is not going to change now, is it? may be if you gimme your intro we wont be strangers anymore and can talk"

to this came Nattu's reply
"For starters i am a fresher from BLAH BLAH and am working with BLAH BLAH "

Gattu is happy to get a response and i am laughing at him as well as at her. what the hell is going on!...really!!...dint she just write she doesnt talk to strangers...what the hell was she thinking when she wrote that
OR
how did Gattu become a non-stranger now??.

Gattu is telling me she is intelligent and i am telling him boss you are a damn fool. He is impressed with her being from that college and i am telling him colleges do sometimes take girls in to dress up their sex ratio. (feminists dont start hunting me down...this IS true..we can debate separately on this). all of you who have ever been in the state where you think you are getting attracted to someone from the opposite sex (or maybe the same one for some of you), would vouch that reason is never a party at the table at such times. Knowing Gattu, i am sure had she been from any damn place with any damn background, that wud have been immaterial to Gattu. He was smitten and thats what mattered to him.

Looking at Nattu's last name, Gattu is under the impression that she might be from UP or Bihar. So he asks her in his next mail and she clarifies she is from neither. she is from some other state altogether but her family is in UP at this time.

After a few emails both ways, Gattu thinks its bout time to meet once. I congratulate him for sense having dawned on him for the first time in his whole sorry life. So he asks
"do you like coffee?"

Nattu replies she loves coffee and can live on it for days. Now going by Gattu's presumption that Nattu is intelligent, i tell him she would like to go out for a coffee or something, else she would not have replied like that to a straight question "do you like coffee?"

Gattu right now is in a state he would agree to anything which hints towards Nattu's being interested too and so asks her
"I know a few places in this city where they make really good coffee. If i ask you out for a cup of coffee sometime, would you come?"
and the reply came
"i dont go out for coffee with strangers"

is she ok at the top floor!!!??? what does she want? ...or hey wait a minute!...may be she is just enjoying the chase right now. i dont think i need to tell you which of the two options Gattu was going for. so he plays on. there was a series of emails which i abridge and narrate as a conversation, but i request the reader that while reading these, keep in mind these were short emails from both persons and each email was preceded with anticipation/excitement (from Gattu's side at least), opened with a lot of expectation and followed by ever growing confusion.

Gattu (trying his best to be funny): We have been communicating on email for quite some time now...i think we know each other enuff to be able to go out for a coffee at a safe place :)
Nattu: i cant go for coffee with you. i dont go out for coffee with anyone.
Gattu: email is ok for a mode of communication for a while. i think meeting would help us get to know each other a lil better.
Nattu: may be after some time.

now, this 'may be' thing is what Gattu got glued to like FEVICOL and wudnt let go of.

my take on things: she is playing him or may be she herself is not sure what she wants. either case...waste of time. He needs to get out of it RIGHT NOW.
Gattu's take on things: she is enjoying the chase but is surely interested why else would she reply to his emails otherwise.

Gattu doesnt want to see reason..doesnt want to listen to me, doesnt want to think any other way than that she is interested. the sweetness i talked bout in the last episode is all gone..at least in my mind.

Now lemme tell you a lil bit bout Gattu<though everything bout him is boring i think>, a couple of things which are relevant here. He has a big Ego, would never go to a place he is not invited to, would never stay somewhere he feels he is not getting his due respect or space <how the hell is he going to grow professionally..he cant even kiss ass>. so somewhere inside, he does have a doubt if he is coming on too strong or if he is imposing himself and the girl is just being polite and not shouting FO in his face. so he writes

Gattu: i hate ppl who act as chipku lotion. i have always hated such ppl whenever i have had to face them and i would really hate to be one of that kind to you. Your past couple of mails are giving me the kinda impression you are not interested in talking. If thats the case, please dont reply to this email and i ll take the hint and stop bothering you. If not, i am sorry for thinking like this...its just that i hate to be an uninvited attendee at any party. <somewhere in this email which i have abridged, Gattu had used the words 'tacit indication of intent'..i ll come to their relevance with Nattu's email>
Nattu: tacit indication of intent!! are you prepraing for CAT or something..your email looks like right out of some passage in RC.

Ladies and gentlemen, what would you think now that Gattu has received a response to his email in which he was more than clear. So Nattu IS interested after all....and Gattu is happy again. and i am also kinda thinking Nattu might be really intelligent after all..she dint give away anything in any mail at the same time she replied back too. smart girl!!..may be she actually IS enjoying the chase. nothing wrong with it now ...is there?

ok...i know i promised we ll cover the first meeting with this episode...but somehow in my rotten habit of blurting out things in detail, i have already written quite a lot. so much so that i think i ll have to jot down the first meeting in the next episode. but the first meeting is going to be a heartacher, if not a heartbreaker for Gattu..i can tell you that much right now :).