A page from a less eventful life

I completed my last paper of my engg: finals which I had no intention of writing,for by then i was sure i would have to spend another six months in this eastern suburb of Calicut to get my degree.Routine gestures about the exam, like "aliya, ethu pongumo"with me replying "elleda" were exchanged with my well wishers on my way back to hostel. We had planned a trip to Thekkady before we finally bid adieu to each other after four years of stint in the college together. So I did my packings with a wartime effort and joined my friends with whom I'll never share a classroom again and started the last outing from our alma-mater.
Hours of drive and packets of cigarettes after, we reached angamaly, by then it was too late so we looked out to spot a beverage shop there itslef otherwise we would be declined of our chance of making a small contribution to Kerala's economy for all such shops would be closed by 11 PM. Without much hassles we spotted one and I, accompanied by my friend joined the queue before the shop. The queue had ample length and soon I got lost in thoughts of plans for making our last booze session an eventful one. it was the comment "pengalee, evide paalu kittilla" that brought back my senses, it was then I noticed a women of middle age carrying a glass in her hand accompanied by a girl who had an age to be called her daughter standing beside the queue. It was too early for me to grasp the irony of her life so, I couldn't help it but to join the laughter that followed the passing comment. She stood there lost for a while and then hesitantly approached the counter, by then our queue has moved forward and we were only a few men away from the counter. She climbed the stairs infront of the shop and asked the men in the counter "evide loose ayittu kittumo" pointing her glass.She was replied in the negative and they stood there for a while and left.I thought about the kind of emotion she had for the man who had sent her here, by then my friend tapped me on the shoulder and we conversed thus:

Friend:" avarude oru gathikedu nokke"
Me:" njan desp ayeda"
Friend:" saramillaa,desp mattan namukku oru extra half koodi vangam", and then we laughed together!.