Fight for the First Bench

Peculiarly we used to have fixed places, and we were maintaining the same seating all the four years. No one remembers how it started or how we chose our places, but those were the best choice for every one. We had a good rapo, shared good relationship and we were perfect for that bench.

Four rows of benches, first two were left for the girls and boys took the next two. Because of more strength of boys, we had to occupy the last benches of second row also. Ravi Kiran, Janardhan and me took the first bench of third row, right in front of the lecturers table. It proved to be very advantageous moving ahead and helped to improve friendly relation with lecturers as you can see later.

Sridhar used to sit in our bench at times, so it was four of us, or one of the three has to choose other place. So we decided to book the place who ever comes first, and he too started coming early for the place. Then he started putting a book of his at the end of each day so that he has a place the next day. Few days we took it off, threw it away to last benches and lastly used pages in it to clean the benches. An absolute childish act, and we used to laugh at our behavior from the very next year.

Similar fight happened for the bench behind us. Amar, Dinesh and Pratap took the bench and Rajeev used to fight for a place in it. Most of the times he succeeded until they found Tulasi better with them than Rajeev, but due to some reasons Rajeev couldn’t continue the place and journey with us.

Soon we are also into batches for labs. All were team of 4, and mine was of three. Ravi Kiran, another one… not my bench mate, Vijaya Lakshmi, from polytechnic and me. All of us were friends with one another because of lab batch, benches, hostel and every thing.