Monday, February 15, 2010

For Matrimonial Purposes

Gone were the days where the girl shyly takes tea to the boy whilst their parents look over approvingly. Gone were the days where the glances and sneak-peeks at each other were 5ms long at 10ms intervals.

So what has the pennukannal come down to ?

Well, take my household.

Sunday, 10:30 am
Dad: "We are going to see 2 boys today. We'll meet one at the mall at 4pm and the other at 6pm."

A low groan from my sis.

Sunday, 2 pm
Mom: "I'm not feeling well. I think we should invite the boys to our house."

A loud groan from me.

Sunday, 3 pm
Dad: "Why can't you girls be clean and tidy?! *Loud sneeze!!* Why do you have to have books everywhere?"

Me: "Why do you always criticize us? I didn't KNOW that we had to be military clean every day of our lives!"

Mom: "Do you have to argue NOW? Somebody help me get out the good tea-set!!"

My sis: "My eyebrows look ok?"

Mom, addressing me: "You look so fat in that! Go and wear something else!"

Me, grumbling: "The boy isn't coming to see ME."

Sunday, 4 pm
The boy (lets call him X) comes over. We introduce ourselves to X. After a short while, we leave X and my sis to speak in private. I occupy myself with F.R.I.E.N.D.S.

After half an hour, we come back and quickly send him off on his way.

"Well?" I asked my sis. "You guys certainly had a lot to talk about."

"He did most of the talking... On his cell phone with his friend!"

We discussed some more and decided that X was not worth it. He was dominating, arrogant and rude.

Neeexxxt!

Mom: "Oh no!! The next boy will arrive just in time for StarSinger Finale!!"

Sis: "Mommmm..."

Mom: "I've been waiting all month for this day!"

Sunday, 6 pm
The boy (Y) arrived. Blah blah. I left my sis alone to watch Chandler being right for once. Blah blah.

It was already past 6:30 and Mom was getting pretty restless. Y and Dad were totally into his career and the different aspects of mechanical engineering.

Me: "I think it's time to start cooking our dinner."

Mom joined my sis and I in the kitchen as I peeled and sliced onions for our sausage curry (Yum!).

Mom: "My Star Singer!"

Me: "So, did you like him?"

Sis: "He's very paavam and conservative... I don't think he'd appreciate our sausage curry."

Me: (Gasp) Naahhiiinn!

Mom: "Great. In that case, I'll scare him off. I'll ask him if he wants anything to drink (as in liquor)."

Sis, laughing: "And what if he says 'yes'?"

Mom winked and said: "In that case, that was a test! I'll show him the door!"

Sunday, 7 pm
Y finally left.

BTW, the Finale of StarSinger went on till 11pm. My mom slept happy. :P

6 comments:

Nikhil said...

I hate stories that don't have a proper ending. ;-)

Kartik Krishnamoorthy said...

Did u actually say Nahiiiiinnnnnnn???? I don't think so!!:P
great post!! :)

Nikhil said...

@Kartik
Yeah, that should've been something like "oh goody, more for me :D"

Mocha said...

Ha.
Ha.
Ha.

Don't you know that I look fantastic now? :P

Poornima said...

Just to complicate things like in the movies - it would have been fun, had the first guy somehow arrived late, maybe at 6PM, along with the second guy. Wondering how the introductions would have gone then :D

Mocha said...

Forget about introductions.
My Mom would have shoo-ed them out after 7pm. There's only so much of StarSinger suspense that she could have withstood. :)