In which Sridhar plays the guessing game

As many of you know, my wife's brother-in-law is Sridhar (my co-brother for those of you who speak Indlish).

The event I am describing here happened several years ago. He was escorting his older daughter to her dance class which was then in some school in Northern Virginia. As it so often happens, the dads of these aspiring dancers hung around the class trying to somehow kill the one hour that seems to drag on like the days before the start of vacations. One such dad who looked like he had landed from India just the previous day, made eye contact and Sridhar felt impelled to introduce himself. So here is the rest of the conversation.

"Hi, My name is Sridhar. What is yours?".

The most unexpected response came back at him, "You guess".

Now Sridhar had not been in India a while and had not moved in FOB circles a lot. So he was nonplussed for a few seconds, but decided that he should humour this person inquired politely "Rakesh?".

The other person had a strained smile in his face but persisted in playing the game said "You guess" again.

Now Sridhar was unsure what to do, he decided to mentally profile him and came up with a list of common names asked "Ramesh, Mahesh, Shailesh, ...?" all in a row.

Visibiliy upset the guy still said forcefully "You guess".

Thankfully, a parallel thread had been running in his brain which told Sridhar, if this guy were recently from India then potentially his accent is suspect and at that instant a flash bulb went in his head and he exclaimed

"You mean, your name is ......!!"

Did you guys figure out what his name was?

Yup it is Yogesh !!

Disclaimer:
The events described above did take place. Jannavi, Sridhar, and Yogesh are real. The conversation between Yogesh and Sridhar did take place in the manner described above. The words of the conversation may not be accurate but I hope the spirit is captured reasonably well here.

After reading the previous edition of this blog, I found some people did not get the joke. Yogesh has a thick Indian accent and pronounced his name as "You Guess"

You Guess = Yogesh