List of Situations
- When someone asks a redundant question in class
- “Teacher: Any doubts?
Student: What does ‘doubt’ mean?” - Baba: “Chimta time.”
- “Teacher: Any doubts?
- Friend repeatedly asks for movie recommendations but never watches them
- *”Friend: Suggest me a good movie.”
Me: “Last time you didn’t even finish one episode!”
- *”Friend: Suggest me a good movie.”
- Parents questioning after checking your phone notifications
- “Mom: Why are there 50+ texts from ‘Group Chat 🤯’?”
- Baba: “Ready with the chimta!”
- Coworker asking for updates before the deadline
- “Boss: Is the report done?
Me (still working on it): Baba enters the scene.”
- “Boss: Is the report done?
- Relatives questioning about marriage at family gatherings
- *”Aunty: Beta, shaadi kab karoge?”
Baba: “Hold my chimta.”
- *”Aunty: Beta, shaadi kab karoge?”
- Online customer repeatedly asking for the price of a product
- “Customer: Price?
Business: It’s in the post.
Customer: And the price?”
- “Customer: Price?
- Tech support facing repeated “Have you tried turning it off and on again?” situations
- “User: My laptop won’t start.
Tech: Have you tried rebooting?
User: What’s rebooting?”
- “User: My laptop won’t start.
- When a teammate asks for meeting notes after skipping the meeting
- “Teammate: What was discussed in the meeting I missed?
Baba: Chimta intensifies.”
- “Teammate: What was discussed in the meeting I missed?
- Roommate repeatedly asking for Wi-Fi password
- “Roommate: What’s the Wi-Fi password again?
Me: Baba is ready.”
- “Roommate: What’s the Wi-Fi password again?
- Siblings asking for food that they refused earlier
- “Sibling: Are you gonna finish that pizza?
Me: ‘You just said you weren’t hungry!'”
- “Sibling: Are you gonna finish that pizza?