The 'blue film' incident

Once upon a time when I was in college, I had this sweet, little naive friend. Reena was an ace performer in her class, but when it came to worldly knowledge, she knew close to little. There were times when I thought she believed in the stork and the baby story !! She would shudder if we would try to tell her what actually happened, stare if someone used the 'f' word and was altogether ignorant about such petty things.
Things would have gone on just fine, had it not been for that fateful day when our gang of gurls decided to visit a nearby lake. The weather was perfect, with a cool breeze blowing, a cloudy-but-not-enough-to rain sky and immense greenery all around. Just the kind of day when one decides to go to a lake. So there we were, absorbing all the earth's magnificient beauty and wondering about our next semester exams...and well, chatting in general. The only ingredient missing was food, I always believe that food should always be a part of all conversations, it makes it so interesting! And what more do you need, if not a little chaat ! Nothing springs one up like a little bit of pani-puri and aloo tikki. Food for thought, aint it? So off we went to the nearest thela and placed orders for loads of pani puris.
The day would have been just fine had it not been for those two gentlemen who came in and parked a huge car with blue-tinted glasses right beside the thela. One of them then rolled down the glass and was about to place his order when suddenly Reena went all hippity hop and yelled out to us, "Look!", she said, "blue-film!" Poor little dear was referring to the car's glasses, though how many of us figured it out is anyone's guess. Two of the girls distanced themselves from her and pretended like they had neither heard or seen anything that was going on, a third dropped her pani poori right on the floor and well, as for me, I stood there, shell-shocked ! Glad to have an audience in me, Reena stressed out even louder this time, pointing all the time at those well-dressed men and calling out, 'blue film'. By this time, the thelawala was thoroughly flustered, I have never seen anyone work as efficiently as he was working at that time and as for the carwalas, well, chaat or no chaat, they fled! To save an ounce of dignity that they figured they had.
As for Reena, she stood there, unperturbed, enjoying her pani-puri, oblivious of the world and the commotion she had caused all this time. There was little then, that could be done, but smile at this naive and innocent gal and let bygones be bygones. Ofcourse, it had to be blogged. ;)