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My Noiseless Memories – Chapter 13

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Not long ago…

What is that?

‘My luggage for the trip…’

‘Are you kidding me? We aren’t going on a marriage or social trip. It’s a trekking and camping trip for god sake!’

‘Yeah…! I know… But I am still not clear on what to wear!!!’

There is this strange stuff about women and their outfits… If a man goes on a seven-day trip, he’ll pack for five days’ worth of clothes and will wear some outfits twice; if a woman goes on a seven-day trip she’ll pack 21 outfits because she doesn’t know what she’ll feel like wearing each day. How true…

‘Ok… Listen… Have you ever been on a camping trip?’

‘No…’ she said confidently.

‘Do you know what they do during camping?’

‘Sit around a bon fire, talk, play games and sleep in the camping tents…’

‘Wow! You know a lot of stuff about camping… But on a serious note, let’s face reality! You don’t know anything about camping. Whatever you have seen or heard about camping is from films…I am I right?’ I said in a satirical tone.

‘What should I do now…?’

She sat on the bed with her head down dejected. Her expression was so heavy that had someone seen us in the moment, they would have thought I am teaching algebra and calculus to a poor little kindergarten kid…

‘Alright listen,

Rule 1: Thumb rule, always follow the camping leader

Rule 2: Always, carry disposable luggage. Fewer luggage’s’ and more comfort!

Rule 3: No matter what happens, you always have stuff that is disposable so that it would greatly reduce a lot of carry weight!

Rule 4: You need to carry a lot of mosquito repellants, creams that would save you from insect bites and last but not the least, a good camping gear’

‘Are you done?’ she said is an exasperated tone…

Without looking at her but her luggage, I said, ‘And yeah… the most important rule is Rule 5

‘And what is that?’

‘Follow Rule 1 religiously’

She was already in a teary mode, but I pretended to not notice it… But as you know girls always need a reason to cry. And they won’t do it alone unless they know you can hear them. So in a matter of seconds, the entire explanation of the camping trip fizzled out.

I said sorry close to ten times, apologized to her a hundred times, and explained her that she can carry anything and everything… but she still sobbed.

‘Alright, if you promise to stop crying, I will get you a surprise gift…’

The sobbing stopped…

‘And it would be at a surprise moment…’

‘Seriously…?’


‘I promise…’

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Ganesh Raam

Written by Ganesh Raam

I lead two lives. On weekdays, I'm a machine learning engineer obsessed with AI, cloud innovation, and sharing what I learn. On weekends, I'm a landscape photographer chasing all 60+ U.S. national parks. Pick your pill—tech or trails—and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

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