Things that go hump in the night*

So here I am way past midnight, right? Minding my business, which is making sure a release goes out before the sun sets in Houston so that I can bill this quarter, right? All of a sudden I get this Yahoo IM message, "asl?". Now I'm way wary of messages that just say "asl". More often than not, it's from a spam bot. So I reply.


akidna_04: asl?
Madhav: sgdsgdsgfdsfd
akidna_04: i thot u were hhkljjtygfgdsfga
Madhav: who is this?
akidna_04: 21/f/pune
Madhav: ok
akidna_04: and urself?
Madhav: where did you get my id from?
akidna_04: yahoo member addresses
Madhav: your id is very familiar..do i know you from somewhere?
akidna_04: are u interested in chatting?
Madhav: aren't we chatting right now?
akidna_04: i cant say. i dont know u
akidna_04: where r u frm?
Madhav: what are you doing up so late?
Madhav: bangalore
akidna_04: i was studying. taking a break
Madhav: where do you study?
akidna_04: symbiosis. doing my mba
Madhav: is this your first year? or second?
akidna_04: 2nd yr. specialising in telecom mgt and infotech
Madhav: cool
akidna_04: but to get to the point. are u interested in talking baout other things
Madhav: what other things do you have in mind?
akidna_04: how old r u
akidna_04: not a 16yr old, r u
Madhav: not quite..33
akidna_04: 33?????
Madhav: why the question marks?
akidna_04: want to do some hot chat?
Madhav: oh, that's coming to the point
akidna_04: ofcourse
Madhav: whats your real name
akidna_04: do i have to tell u
Madhav: you know my name from my id
akidna_04: its shefali
Madhav: i'm just curious
Madhav: hi shefali
akidna_04: hi madhav
Madhav: so here's something that's funny
akidna_04: ??
Madhav: i'm looking at the list of students in SITM (what would one do without google!)
Madhav: cant' find a shefali
Madhav: you are in the 2004-2006 batch, right
akidna_04: we have an option to decide if our names can be listed
Madhav: interesting
akidna_04: but why are u doing a background check
Madhav: i would have thought everyone's name would have been listed
Madhav: why not? just curious whom i'm actually going to do a hot chat with
akidna_04: no. its noy compulsory
Madhav: i see
akidna_04: its just a short fling imho
Madhav: at symbiosis?
akidna_04: well. i needed a quickie
Madhav: no guys around in real life over there at the campus?
akidna_04: not at 1:30 in the am
Madhav: too bad
Madhav: what do you use for quickies?
akidna_04: i'd have liked some frank responses. bye
Madhav: funny, that's what i would have liked too, you know


Shefali, my ass. Might have been for all you know.

*Filtered for the core group, of course.