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Some relatives whom I fail to recognize even after they naming a 100 people through who we are related have come home to invite us for their kid’s wedding
After serving them the oh-yeah-I-know-you-guys fake smile and coffee, there seem to be a long pause. Only sipping of coffee can be heard. Irritated by the sounds of slurp I decide to break the ice.
Me: So aunty where do you stay these days?
Aunty: We have built a house in Mandya and stay there
Ha if someone would have put the same question to me, my answer would be “Mysore”. Whether I have built the home or someone else built it, should that matter? But for such annoying people it does.
It doesn’t end there
Aunty: So you both go in car everyday to office?
Me: Yeah we do.
MIL: Sometimes they take the two-wheeler too.
MIL is scared that the lady would plant her not-so-good-drushti on us and we’ll be affected.
Aunty: Actually we use our car only when we have to go to far off places.
Me and MIL: ok
She just told us that they have a car.
After few minutes of idhar-udhar ki baatein they leave and to my surprise they handed over a card, but never in a hospitable way invited us for the wedding.
Shucks, it’s better off not knowing such people, I tell you.
I will make you scream "Mummy Mummy"
14 Sept 2010
They blow their own horn
Some relatives whom I fail to recognize even after they naming a 100 people through who we are related have come home to invite us for their kid’s wedding
After serving them the oh-yeah-I-know-you-guys fake smile and coffee, there seem to be a long pause. Only sipping of coffee can be heard. Irritated by the sounds of slurp I decide to break the ice.
Me: So aunty where do you stay these days?
Aunty: We have built a house in Mandya and stay there
Ha if someone would have put the same question to me, my answer would be “Mysore”. Whether I have built the home or someone else built it, should that matter? But for such annoying people it does.
It doesn’t end there
Aunty: So you both go in car everyday to office?
Me: Yeah we do.
MIL: Sometimes they take the two-wheeler too.
MIL is scared that the lady would plant her not-so-good-drushti on us and we’ll be affected.
Aunty: Actually we use our car only when we have to go to far off places.
Me and MIL: ok
She just told us that they have a car.
After few minutes of idhar-udhar ki baatein they leave and to my surprise they handed over a card, but never in a hospitable way invited us for the wedding.
Shucks, it’s better off not knowing such people, I tell you.
2 comments:
O I could just visualise this.. :)... So true... And very typically Indian, sometimes I feel... Even I get put off by such people.
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