Encounters of the Un-wild kind

I prefer to call this particular piece of text as “Unwild Encounters” for the sole reason that we as humans perceive other living forms as wild and unwild whereas there is no race or breed as wild and dangerous than the homo sapiens themselves.

IIT is a wild place, there are wild creatures all around us over here. The day starts with a wild and loud creatures gargling and spitting and spooing around in the common washroom. Those voices alone could make you barf on your empty stomach. But then more detailed descriptions out here would be enough to make you sick enough not to read the rest of the text, so I draw a full stop out here.

There are many a monkeys around out over here. Small ones, tiny ones, huge ones, cute ones, ferocious ones, curious ones, happy ones, excited ones and all other kinds. There is a convention centre being built opposite IDC main entrance which would be completed in 2010. This place being a regular construction site for the mathadis over the week turns into a fun Jungle Jim kinds of playhouse for the apes over Sunday, wherein they run all around the place, hang out in search for food (with their red butts out) from the trashcans which adorn the IIT campus, scare the shit out of the dogs and at times play evil.

A recent incident on a sunny week day during a lunch break, there was silence in the corridors of the department as all IDCians ‘enjoyed’ their tasteless lunches in their respective hostels there came a text message in my inbox which read “Monkeys in d studio.Biggg mess ppl.No1 arnd 2 help.Tk my mouse,rly likin anikets toy.eggs blasted.Smellin like hell.All are welcome to xprnc animal interaction”. A quick run to our studio and we found the whole place in a smelly mess. Eye witnesses reported that six apes had ventured through into the Interaction Design studio through an open window and made the whole place into a kindergarten playground. Paper sheets and thermocol toys were broken. A fellowmate’s cordless mouse was smashed around (He managed to save his laptop though). Some weakassed ape had shat on a girl’s desk and ofcourse there were some eggs on the windowsill (which were fond artefacts of the Ragging session we were put through at the start of the course) were smashed around. Later news reported that there were more monkey attacks in other studios as well.

A pair of monkeys robbed a box of poster colors from the Senior studio. A girl who was enjoying her siesta in the Product Design studio was rudely awakened by the sounds of monkeys jumping on a centre table in the studio. But she managed to scream loud enough to scare them off their pants (if they ever wore any) and the studio was saved. Later a scare fight ensued between the IDCians and the monkeys as each of the party tried to scare the other ones by screeching, hooting and shouting. Some weaponery help from the IDC staff in the form of bamboos and sticks helped the former be successful in their fight.

This was an one-off encounter with monkeys. But each day, lives of every IITian are terrorised and traumatised by the presence of these humanlike creatures.

Next up – Creepy Crawly Insects and Our Favourite Leopards.