"It is ok ma. Sari ok. I will buy that! Ya sure, it looks good! Believe me, it really is. Sari now keep the phone down, I will call you back". My friend replied this for the seventh time after his wife had called him to know about the purchase he had done for her. I stood there wondering what the problem was all about. May be, next time when Obama visits India he had promised to visit her house, I thought.
Nalla velai tower poiruchu( Thank heavens tower went off), he turned back to me. I could see his radiant face. 'M' was the guy who got married first in our class. I never thought cell phone towers can bring a man so much peace. After all he has the most experience in class. Aduthu(next) I will buy some thing for my sister, he said. So the entire process started again. What have you bought for your sister? The call came again! Is it the same as mine? Same colour? Orey(same) design ah? Try some thing new na? So after we selected a kurta, the call came again. Now! Which of the two you have bought is better? My friend of course is experienced! Unaku vaanginathu thaan ma( the one I bought for you only), he replied. Then ok! Is this kurta only or chuddidhar? I almost had a heart attack! I thought both are the same. So, unashamedly we asked the shop keeper and he said, pants you will ve to buy separately. Tk Tk! aap kya chaaiye, he asked? Pants or legumes? Legume ah, I thought they were plants. Then one other guy clarified it as leggin! Leggin? Then where do they put the pants? In hands? I was confused! After seeing them both and after another phone call we are finished with one shop.
Now to buy something for my daughter, he said! By now I was almost fainting. Really thankful that his daughter is only 2 years old and yet to learn to operate a mobile. We went to a small ornaments shop. So we started off with ear rings, the smaller ones and slowly the larger ones for the mother, then to bangles of different colours, then to bracelets, anklets, some clips for hair; some for pony tails, some for long hairs, some for short hairs, some for the back side of the hair and some for the scalp portion, some nail art, hair bands and some for the eye brow and some for the fore head and every thing in the same colour! My eyes were almost coming out, when I heard my friend say, " nalla velai phone varalai"( thank heavens the call did not come).
What next, I asked my friend! Should buy some thing for Appa he said and added, it is ok, last year I bought him a watch and it is still running.
So we decided on watching Lincoln, even as he was thanking that the shopping got over very fast. We had spent only 3 hours in those two shops he said. May be, last time he took his wife also, I thought!
As soon as the movie started I dozed off after a tired days work( I mean the shopping). Suddenly, my friend woke me up and said, you can be the president of America, but you have to answer your wife! In the intense moments of his life, when he was fighting to pass the greatest legislation of all times to abolish slavery, Lincoln constantly answered his wife's wifesh questions with similar aplomb. May be that is what made him the man he was!
Do you think I'm getting ready to tie the knot?
Nalla velai tower poiruchu( Thank heavens tower went off), he turned back to me. I could see his radiant face. 'M' was the guy who got married first in our class. I never thought cell phone towers can bring a man so much peace. After all he has the most experience in class. Aduthu(next) I will buy some thing for my sister, he said. So the entire process started again. What have you bought for your sister? The call came again! Is it the same as mine? Same colour? Orey(same) design ah? Try some thing new na? So after we selected a kurta, the call came again. Now! Which of the two you have bought is better? My friend of course is experienced! Unaku vaanginathu thaan ma( the one I bought for you only), he replied. Then ok! Is this kurta only or chuddidhar? I almost had a heart attack! I thought both are the same. So, unashamedly we asked the shop keeper and he said, pants you will ve to buy separately. Tk Tk! aap kya chaaiye, he asked? Pants or legumes? Legume ah, I thought they were plants. Then one other guy clarified it as leggin! Leggin? Then where do they put the pants? In hands? I was confused! After seeing them both and after another phone call we are finished with one shop.
Now to buy something for my daughter, he said! By now I was almost fainting. Really thankful that his daughter is only 2 years old and yet to learn to operate a mobile. We went to a small ornaments shop. So we started off with ear rings, the smaller ones and slowly the larger ones for the mother, then to bangles of different colours, then to bracelets, anklets, some clips for hair; some for pony tails, some for long hairs, some for short hairs, some for the back side of the hair and some for the scalp portion, some nail art, hair bands and some for the eye brow and some for the fore head and every thing in the same colour! My eyes were almost coming out, when I heard my friend say, " nalla velai phone varalai"( thank heavens the call did not come).
What next, I asked my friend! Should buy some thing for Appa he said and added, it is ok, last year I bought him a watch and it is still running.
So we decided on watching Lincoln, even as he was thanking that the shopping got over very fast. We had spent only 3 hours in those two shops he said. May be, last time he took his wife also, I thought!
As soon as the movie started I dozed off after a tired days work( I mean the shopping). Suddenly, my friend woke me up and said, you can be the president of America, but you have to answer your wife! In the intense moments of his life, when he was fighting to pass the greatest legislation of all times to abolish slavery, Lincoln constantly answered his wife's wifesh questions with similar aplomb. May be that is what made him the man he was!
Do you think I'm getting ready to tie the knot?
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good one.. dude :)
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