Dr B

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Dr B stands for the Bemused, Bewildered, and Baffled mythical KGP Technocrat living in our Faculty Hostel in the 1960s.

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Dr B was in Cal, and his friends told him that Dr Zhivago was a great movie showing in Lighthouse.

He bought his ticket and walked over to the Gate where the Keeper (K) politely told him he was in New Empire and asked him to turn right at the corner and proceed to get into Lighthouse.

Five minutes later, Dr B presented his ticket and K politely told him it was New Empire and asked him to turn right at the corner and proceed to get into Lighthouse...

After the third encounter, K asked one of his friends to standby and 'walked' Dr B to the Gate of Lighthouse, and got a big ThanQ!

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Dr B always had a Favre-Leuba wrist watch which had this tiny cute knurled knob at the 3.15 position, rolling which the spring gets keyed up, a daily routine. And, pulling it out a bit and rolling turns the hands to adjust time.

One day he got a similar-looking latest quartz watch with 'day-date' display as a gift on the Foundation Day (August 18).

When he opened the packet the day-date were showing the factory-set February 25.

He rolled the knurled knob over and over but nothing happened. He then realized that there is no spring to key up in a battery-operated watch.

And he pulled the knob out and rolled it. The hands moved handsomely but the day-date stayed put.

He kept on turning the hands for over a couple of hours trying to match the slowly turning day-date to August 18, gave it up, and took it to Tech Market where Bishnu-da showed him the tiny 'intermediate' step that rolls the day and date this way and that.

Two hours of precious Techno-Time wasted...

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Every one of my friends knew that my ancient push bike always stood parked under the Mango Tree @ Co-Op Canteen while I was in the Insti.

One lunch hour, I approached my bike but found that beside it was standing Dr B's bike with his lock-chain interlocked with mine.

I was curious and unlocked my chain and was looking for Dr B but found him nowhere. So, I cycled down to the Mess and was having lunch.

Dr B rushed in and asked me how the hell I could get going when he had coupled our bikes together.

It turned out that he wanted to immobilize me locked in, cycle coupled to cycle, till he came to the Canteen and led me to CL to show me his Paper that appeared in the latest issue of ASME.

Dr B famously interlocked the two chains instead of the two wheels...

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Once an Army Major (AM) joined our Hostel and at once wished to revamp our homely Mess and transform it into a Gold-Plated 'Officers Mess'.

All of us happily gave in; if someone wants to improve us, good, let him!

He conducted his First Meeting and asked one of us to volunteer to take down Notes.

Dr B came forward with the Mess Note Book and started taking down the 'New' Menu dictated by AM.

AM started with the 'New' Breakfast:

"Two eggs to order"

Dr B wrote down, repeating slowly:

"Two eggs to order"

AM proceeded:

"One cup of milk"

Dr B wrote down, repeating and enhancing:

"One cup of milk to order"

And looked up leisurely for the next item.

He didn't realize that AM meanwhile staged a walkout and retired to his 'suite' in a huff...

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