Letter to Tonks


Last nt i was going home and in the car were Ruchika, Priscilla and Aparajita. Normally the fact of being around 3 women would drive any man delirious. But in my mind rang the words of my math prof in college (a Prof Tankha, you might remember him) who once sagely advised during the course of sovling a complicated calculus problem, "Never go out with more than 1 girl, it will make calculus seem simple"
I am never a sucker for advice (good or bad), however, and experience has also not taught me to ignore the words of the wise at my own peril. So i decided to be chivalrous and not only drop 3 women but be in the car with them at the same time.
Sigh - if only ... I HAD TAKEN AN AUTO! :P
The ride started well ... one of the women aforementioned ladies was on a call. I chuckled at Prof T's words and thought ... ah he lived in another day and age.
No sooner had the call got over that ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE! Hell hath no fury as a woman scorned it is said, well, dont know about that but Satan surely has a sense of humor which sorely tests a man caught with not 1 but 3 women (scorned or otherwise). Verbal volleys of 'typical' masculine behaviour were unleashed and either placed with the finese of Federer and/or blasted with the raw power of the Williams' sisters.
I was on the baseline gamely trying to make a match of it but it was like David vs Goliath or Serena playing Saina (intentional ... not Sania since I think she can still make a match of it once in a while but Saina being a badminton player wouldnt stand a chance).
As I watched (and heard!) what women really want, all I wanted was to live in the stone age ... Sigh ... wear a tiger skin, go out hunt some deer, eat, sleep, throw stones in water for fun, sleep some more, wake up and repeat process.
Oops I had said that aloud ... and wonder of wonders ... the talk turned to how purses made out of tiger skin would look!!!

Well I was almost about to stop the car and get out myself but then again I have the patience of the Buddha (I am guessing he had quite a lot of it to sit under a tree for some years) or so I think and vow to see this through the end.

The ordeal finally ended ... I think they ran out of steam. Silence descended and I went through the rest of the journey smiling to myself at the music emanating from the system!

Basic point of this long monologue was - COME BACK FAST! :P

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