Who me???...Couldn't be!!!

This is a cover-up art.
You will need years to achieve the kind of finesse which will help you in everyday situations.Eyes in complete disbelief , your jaw dropped in shock , confused eyebrows , a frown to supposedly empathise with your victim and this just constitutes the body language for the this cover up strategy which I have just been able to admire in my friends.

Then you give a careful explanation which should be wrapped in a glibber response to slowly reduce the impact of your victim's state and then distract your victim with other reasons which might have lead to his state has to be done very smoothly until he thinks you are on his team.

(Experts can go ahead and blame their doing on a innocent guileless person who is absolutely oblivious to what happened and is still to recover from what hit him from nowhere)

Where do I figure in all this ? I am usually the innocent guileless entity 'blame it on KJ' is quite popular with my friends. Expert...hmmm...Has to be PRATAP.

(Day before yesterday, 10 pm at Bamboo House)

12 of us celebrating a colleague's bday

"There is a cockroach in my soup"..Someone said.

The amateur waiter was called by a angry crowd. He lifted the soup bowl and looked at the roach. Then he gazed at the sky and the surrounding tables.

"Hmmm...This has flown into the soup"(more pathetic cover up yet to come)

He was quickly dismissed and the manager was called.

"What happened sir ?" Manager was like Pratap.He was calm.He had the perfect body language and the presence of mind.He was about to take control of the situation.I knew he was going to give us a lecture on hygiene standards in his restaurant and relate the possibility to a flying cockroach which happened to fly right into the soup.A one in million possibility for which he shouldn't be punished heavily.

"There was a cockroach in the soup"

Then it had to come out of the stupid , amateur waiter.
"SIR....It wasn't a cockroach. It was THE OTHER INSECT"

Long pause.And he didn't charge us for all the soups. Not a word said.

Lesson : Not everybody can do a great cover-up.

P.S. - If Pratap convinces you he ain't the 'devil' here...The greatest trick the devil ever played was to convince the world that he didn't exist.