THE STORY BEHIND ‘PEG LAG’

The ‘sudden invention’ of this term happened approximately three months before when I along with my closest college friends visited SR’s (Shreyas’) place for an afternoon party! SR’s house was undergoing renovation then and the charge was lead by the head mistry Kazem.

The first to reach his college street house were me and Chamar (Judhajit) and then the others followed. Lassi (Niladri), Pata (Atanu),Shiva (Shib Shankar), Sumanta and Dental (Gaurabmoy) joined us.I still remember the bunch of grapes Shiva had bought from the Sealdah station. We were supposed to have them with the whisky! This party was solely organized by SR and all credit goes to him. He took the responsibility of preparing the chicken curry, the chapattis (50pcs.) and of course the superb green salad.

Soon the bottle of Antiquity arrived! The golden liquor looked as if it had been imprisoned in that bottle for ages and it desperately wanted to free itself. And then, the glasses arrived too.

I would like to share something unique. Among our friends, Chamar was the only one who never drank and Sumanta decided not to drink that day (as he could not come out of the previous night’s hangover by then). SR was serving us our pegs. The atmosphere was slowly changing!

When we drank, we followed certain rules. Everyone does. Firstly, everyone was given equal amount of liquor in their respective pegs and secondly, the next round of distribution of pegs will only start after everyone has actually finished with his previous one. The party went on. We played pranks on each other and made fun of ourselves. Pata was tortured the most and Lassi on rare occasions. Pata’s cell phone was even dipped in Antiquity by someone I don’t actually remember now. May be it was Lassi or SR. Chamar carried on sipping onto his Mazaa which Sumanta had brought for him. I was swearing at Dental as I always do! SR was the busiest of all as he was our host. We were having fun.

Then suddenly SR went out of the room leaving behind his half finished peg in the room. He had to go to check the progress of our food that was being prepared. It was nearly 15 minutes by then but he did not return. All of us had finished our pegs by then. Only SR’s one rested half filled on one corner of the bed. We waited and waited for him to return. It was getting really late. And finally Shiva broke the rule! He served us our next peg! May be we were becoming impatient and that was why he did so.

And at last SR returned with a fresh new plate of green salad. He was astonished to see that we were having our next round and smiled. He came and sat beside me. I think he never expected that this would happen. And to break the silence out of nowhere I said, ” SR tui 1ta peg lag khey gechis bhai!” Everyone started laughing hearing this. Students are accustomed with the term ‘ year lag’ but this was something unusual yet meaningful. My friends suggested me to put this up as my Orkut profile name. I did so and it still remains so!

So, this was the story behind my Orkut profile name being ‘PEG LAG’..

(I apologize to all my friends who have asked me the meaning of ‘peg lag’ but I avoided them saying that it is a long story. It really is a long story as you all can see now!)