Copycats :P

It's something all of us have noticed at some moment or the other, and most of us have commented on..boys in their late teens sporting a Dhoni hairstyle, or girls going gaga over long coats attempting to double up as Naina in KHNH...people flocking to the same destinations for their hard-earned holidays, most boys choosing blue as their favorite color..so on and so forth...

Well, the other day I was stuck by a curious incident that might be treated as an analogue to the above cases..but the time, place and moment seemed so far removed from the ones stated previously..that it took me a while to develop the connection..It was in the middle of a computer aided English proficiency test (which am not going to name here, but I'm sure most readers can correctly guess!). There was this part of the test that had a speaking section wherein we had to respond to the question by talking into a microphone. About an odd score of us were seated in the same room, and it was soon obvious that it was a real hassle trying to listen to our own voices above the din of our neighbor's. Nevertheless, we tried to resolve the quandary in the most obvious way, namely, by increasing the volume of our voices. Soon, everyone in the room was replicating it and before long, a virtual cacophony ensued! :)

So much for herd mentality...