In case you wonder what this post is all about, you are definitely going to read further. And its a thing which happens to everyone. So its not a person-specific experience. And it happens when almost all children expect it to happen. It is the heart-in-mouth syndrome, abbreviated HIM syndrome.
This disease or curse or affliction is not to be confused with the foot-in-mouth syndrome. Though sharing the title of our body’s oral point of entry, these two diseases are completely different in symptoms as well as resultant affectations.
The FIM syndrome is usually person-specific and happens to the same person repeatedly. FIM syndrome-afflicted persons have an uncanny habit of saying the wrong things at the wrong time. Everyone knows an FIM-afflicted person. I mean everyone 
Now we come to HIM syndrome. Can you guess when it happens ? It happens when you feel as if your roller-coaster is going to be derailed, you’ve got a werewolf following you or when your exam results are out. When exam results are out…
In this age of science and technology, everything is available at a click of a button. Well, the clicking part of a mouse can’t be called a button, but oh, what the hell…
So, where were we ?
Oh yeah, when exam results are out. All our results are now a click away. Sounds like an advertisement eh ? Well, its true. One click, and Satan’s hand slaps you hard on your cheeks. Very hard indeed.
This is the actual Heart-In-Mouth syndrome.
Waiting for your results.
You type in the site’s URL.
You wait for your browser to process the results.
While you wait, Dad glares at you.
Mom glares at you.
Sis glares at you.
But it isn’t my fault!
Curse Mozilla!
Sweat pours out as if its been sold at nominal prices.
Screw these screwy similes.
What are the results ?
Again, Dad glares.
Finally, the page appears.
Lot of traffic, I explain.
Type in my roll number.
Sweat keeps trickling out.
Enough to fill the Utah Valley.
The page slowly processes.
This is when my heart has reached my mouth and is dying to get out and splatter the PC monitor
Doesn’t everyone experience this ?
neha m. said,
June 4, 2008 at 7:24 pm
This post progresses really well…
..just when the result episode starts, there is an urge to scroll down and feel the “already experienced” HIM syndrome…
I liked this the best on your blog!
thesongremainsthesame said,
June 4, 2008 at 11:19 pm
Appreciated the comment, Neha
Kimi said,
June 5, 2008 at 11:10 am
Dat was really quite realistic I must say……….
D day of THE results put up real well by d “scholar”!!
Of course…dis HIM syndrome is really worth a thought.
Though I wonder what happened to all dat sweat……
thesongremainsthesame said,
June 20, 2008 at 11:59 pm
As I said Kimi, all that sweat is used by the Utah Valley to quench the thirst of all the skeletons lying around …