Superheros!

Watched Spiderman-2 recently and while the movie was quite timepass I found myself drifting back to my childhood days in Andamans and my brush with superheros. We used have a maths teacher called Ramamurthy. He was quite a brilliant teacher and more than a bit weird. Once in a while he would go into this spells of pure unadultrated lunacy. e.g. he once rode his moped right into the classroom. His antics were mostly harmless till he discoverd "Superman". Aparently he had got hold of this superman comic from somewhere and started fantasizing about being superman. Unlike most of us he did not rest on his fantasies and got a superman outfit stiched in from Madras. Then in those spells he would ride around the town in his moped wearing this familiar blue and red outfit. When he climbed the tallest buildings in Port blair threatening to fly off from there, people got seriously worried and he was kept under observation and treatment till he seemed OK again. Things back to normal with him back in schol teaching with zest, then one fine day someone handed him a letter to give it to someone who was flying to Madras as he was going towards the airport. He was running late and he decided since the man cannot do it it is a job for superman. He put on the suit jumped on to the moped and off he went to the airport. By the time he reached the airport the plane was already taxiing bu that did not deter superman he rode his moped right on to the runway chasing the the disappearing plane.Three things resulted from that episode. he was put into a mental institute for a long time, we lost a great maths teacher and the security of the airport at Port Blair improved dramatically.