Monday, November 06, 2006

Life without TUV

A couple of months ago, the '8' key on my cellphone went dead. It simply refused to respond to any magnitude of force from any physical object. The result: I'm living my life without 8. I can't dial phone numbers with an 8 in them(apart from those in my phone book). To make matters worse I can't type in any T's U's and V's on messages.
So what do I do? Well, I type in hybrid language. Hinglish to the rescue. I try and substitute some of the words with their Hindi equivalents(provided the equivalent contains none of the 3 taboo letters)
And in cases when even that is infeasible, I simply misspell, hoping that the person on the other side has an IQ fit for the MENSA and that by some divine providence he/she'll get what I'm trying so hard to say.

Well, this entire process is frustrating to say the least :p ..... the whole problem has affected me deeply-- I often find myself trying to kill me, having been totally psyched out at being deprived of my T's U's and V's. Life feels incomplete(incomple_e). Exis_ence is a bane. How long does des_iny wish _o torment me? (HAD to use a 't' there ;) )