Priya
(I know her name, so I'll use it) makes a face as laughter starts to build
behind her. The four roughnecks from the courtyard tease her and tell her that
they'll meet her inside. Having seen enough, Raj pushes his way through the guys
and tells Priya that he'll show her the way to the office. Sure enough, moments
later Priya is in the right place, and Raj wanders off smiling like ... a guy
who's just shown a beautiful girl the way to the principal's office.
Later that day, we see Raj at work at Kartar Singh's garage. One of his co-workers comes over to see what Raj is working on. Raj shows him the designs he has worked up for the car he is remodeling. The mechanic seems impressed, then tells Raj that it is payday, and he's to report to the manager's office to get his money.
Up
in the office we see Kartar Singh himself handing out the salaries. We also see
his, how to put this nicely, intelligence-free son Golu munching on a little
cake and smiling at the phone on the desk. As it begins to ring he asks if he
should answer it, and Kartar tells him to go ahead. As this is happening, Raj
comes in. Kartar tells him that he's docking his pay for the time he missed last
month. Raj explains that he missed work because he had to attend to some of his
grandmother's needs. Kartar asks him what he gets paid for - working in the
garage or working for his grandma? He then sends Raj back out into the work
area.
Kartar then notices the empty pitcher on his desk. He tells Golu (who is
off the phone now) that he had put milk curd in the pitcher with some ice to
cool off, but now it's empty. Kartar asks him if he knows what happened to it.
Golu proudly explains that a customer had come in with an overheating engine,
so he poured the ice cold milk curd into the radiator to cool it down. As
one might guess, Kartar is not happy about this, and threatens to keep Golu
out on the lot with the used cars.
Kartar adds a swat to the head to emphasize
his point.
We cut to Raj's house as he arrives home. He calls out for Grandma to have dinner and talk about the day. Grandma asks him how the first day of college went, and gets an overly technical reply. According to Raj, the day was 75% good. The other 25% was bad due to his run-in with the upperclassmen. After an awkward pause, Raj asks his Grandma if she thinks he is good looking. She smiles and tells him that he's one in a million.
Raj
doesn't accept this answer, and tells her to be serious. He asks her to imagine
herself as being a teenager again. Would he be someone that she would like to
come over and talk to her? Grandma gets to scheming, and figures out that Raj
met a girl today. She tells him that boys today are very smart, and know that
the girls are looking at the boys' features, and not their futures. (I thought
that was kind of clever, personally.) Grandma asks who the girl is. Raj explains
that she's a new student that has transferred here from Oxford University, and
already has quite a following. He also adds that some of the guys gave her a
tough time, but he helped her out. Grandma tells him that she understands now
why the other 75% of his day was good, and follows that up with her opinion that
if she were a teen, she would think Raj was handsome.
Raj gives her a look that can only be described as "happy at the reply, but realized he just asked his Grandma if she thinks he's hot."
