Truth Hurts!!!!

Yess it does...and it does real terribly!!!
Heard this one in some movie..though it took me quite some time to realize its relevance in today's world!!!Here it goes:-
"You speak truth lightly and nobody agrees, you shout a lie and it becomes truth!!"

Had a Data Structures class today....one of those usual classes,I say usual because its the same old going to the class and enjoying a few short naps coz you don't get anything as you do,rather as you don't in other classes...
But I couldn't have missed this one the way I do the other usual ones...Proxy rules my dear....so I couldn't have missed it because the professor's quite strict(thats not it...all profs are strict,huh!!) and he had been takin a thorough attendance for the last two consecutive classes..mind it "thorough" ...thereby resulting in me being absent when I actually was..which generally didn't happen!!!
SO...I went to the class and sat on my usual second last bench....(Things seem to adapt to each other with their time of association with each other...And you get used to things...It seemed everybody had had some seat number already fixed for him/her..and mine was default second last....to assure me always that there is someone behind you!!!Even after getting into the class late,that bench always lay vacant for me..),so I sat on the second last bench after a little cleaning up, the dust indicating the long but finally fruitful wait of the bench for its occupant...someday,I know,you'll come,atleast the day you have the fear of your attendance falling short!!!Today was 'the' day.....
Everything looked to be the same way it looked before...when i say before...I refer to the last class I attended,(now don't strain me by asking when that was),the class with the exception of two guys(Saket and Sparsh) and some I-want-to-study-even-if-you-teach-or-not-minded gals was engrossed in the sombrest of sleeps,which they probably found difficult to catch on in their rooms,the teacher was humming the same old lullaby,this one with audio-visual effects too(he teaches with a laptop,projector,and a mic)....and so with the same adoration for this professors advanced 'teaching' techniques,I started on what I presumed to be an imperturbed 1 hour nap.
But it was soon disrupted by the professors attendance calls,as expected,he was askin everyone the reason for missing the last class,the way a judge questions a murder suspect....and I thought I was a serial killer who has comitted repeated crimes...what would become of me!!!!
And so came my turn...After much consideration,I had decided upon the 'I'm not well' excuse..but that already had been used twice before my turn ....and didn't help much too.....but I still decided to stick to it,the other alternative being keeping quite...and I do not generally like one-sided conversations with one person speaking and the other one practising the silence of the lambs......
But lo,my turn came....I,with a little lower and saddened voice,but the same old girly shrill still involved (thats what people say)..shouted PRESENT SIR...And so it went,he did not say anything!!!Telepathy..I thought,yes it works!!
But I was probably not loud enough,told my surrounding maties,who by that time,had started wiping their eyes with their handkerchiefs,everone hurling whatever they could at the prof...the person responsible for the destruction of their much awaited dreams!!!!
I was just thinking of going to the prof after he gets done...just to tell him I'm finally there..right in the classroom,but he just spoke up:-
"Ye Shubham Khurana 'Ji' achhe hain,pehle hi ghar chale gaye lagta hai,3 absents in a row!!"
And meri watt lag gayi mamu!!I stood up clarifying that I'm there...probably wasn't loud enough...and voila,he called me!!
I went with the most serious and bechara of looks as some Mike Tyson had just beaten the shit out of me(as I was told later by fellows who by the time were over with their sledging-the-prof sessions)....and said rightaway:-
"Sir I had fever"
Looks at me with that I-know-you-are-lying attitude.
"I didn't attend any single class for the last two days apart from the essential practicals Sir"
(I was pretty confident saying that coz I actually didn't,what if the reasons were different,and that I think did the trick)
"So....can I believe you?"
Mission Accomplished dude!!!
"Sir you can check the attendance sheets of other profs!"
(I'm sure you won't,even you know you won't)
"OK Go"
The way I unexpectedly returned untouched from the lion's den,it felt as if Lady Luck was making serious passes at me.
So thats how I escaped...but others who were absent for even 1 day were called by him after the class and I wasn't....so Howzat!!!Now that was like Lady Luck asking me directly to sleep with her!!!!
But there is another side to it...consider my humanism...if I would have told the prof that I was sleeping at my room coz I watched some movies late night,then chatted with arbit people...it would have hurt....real badly...plus if he gets to know...I'm not the only one..rather I form the majority scenario....it would hurt,wouldn't it???
Maybe he knows the truth,maybe he doesn't,maybe everyone in this entire frickin world does know the truth...but everyone knows this too,that TRUTH HURTS and this is the truth.
Does this one hurt by the way??