'Buddy, I am underweight'

Back in 2006, we were a group of 10-15 living in an apartment complex in Seattle and 'hitting the gym' suddenly became a fad. I don't remember when it started or how it started, but there was a brief period when everyone thought, being fit and healthy is really important. So we identified a gym and as as every gym would want you to do, the gym instructor took us through the tour and it ended with a visit to the men's locker room. 3-4 guys freaked out, rather should I say 'had a culture shock' when they saw people walking with their ding-dongs out and they immediately dropped their gym plan. I don't blame them, a culture that is so paranoid and prejudiced about two men holding hands or even worse two men dining alone in an restaurant but it is still considered normal to walk around with your John jr on full display in a men's locker room? I think, it is like Superman's kryptonite Vs Earth concept, no rules/conditions apply inside the locker rooms, eh? Anyways, after the tour, the regular "desi" torment of negotiating a monthly fee and getting gym membership under a "family plan" happened, as fate's script should have it, we had another 6-7guys drop out at this stage. This is one other thing I don't understand, having done all the research and pep talk for days, when the gym sales guy drops the monthly rate, few guys find gym an 'expensive hobby' but expressed under the veil 'I don't need to Gym, I am already fit' reason. I think the moment the rate was mentioned their mental calculators went $40*50 = Rs.2000, no way is it acceptable to spent Rs.100 an hour each day for 20 days. I call them calculators and without these calculators around you, who would you pick/irritate to spend time or entertain yourself (don't judge me!)? So these are essential characters in the life's humour section.

After all this we had only 2-3 guys making it to the gym and as any initial gym fever would have the BMI calculation was always part of the discussion. As the calculators would always say 'You just need to eat healthy to stay healthy, hitting a gym is a scam the corporates have managed to pull over the innocent civilians'. In spite of all this chaos there was one guy who never showed interest in Gym and his reason, he claimed he was underweight. We always had our doubts as whether he was really underweight and for God's sakes, he had a paunch. So we cornered him one evening and asked him to prove his statement and here is the sequence of events

1. He opened the BMI index calculation page from the internet
2. He entered his age, weight and height
3. He hit the calculate button and it came back with 17 as the BMI which is very much underweight
4. We were stunned and when we went through his height and weight, he had entered his height as 6 feet and 2 inches
5. This guy was hardly 5 feet and 8 inches and we confronted him with this fact, he vehemently defended his height saying he was way over 6 feet.

So the fun began, to state something stupid amongst a bachelor group is considered crime, but trying to support your statement even after knowing it is wrong is like wishing death sentence on yourself. Well, who cares, we had absolute and total fun at the expense of our "underweight" friend/roomie.