On the eve of the wedding of my friend’s daughter, I was having the first taste of selected dishes in the kitchen. A man with a serious look and sharp nose came in and enquired, ‘who is in charge of the kitchen management here?’ ‘Me, Sir!’, I submitted, ‘who else, when I’m available?’ The cooks … Read more
Ammalu, you are young, you are pretty’ ‘I’m not young, but I’m pretty’ ‘Please give me a thousand bucks, but don’t debit to my accounts’ ‘I’m not giving you a paisa but thousand bucks already debited to your account’ ‘How Ammalu? Under what rule? ”You are young, you are pretty’ rule. Your asking was as … Read more
‘An old age curse. Forgetting names. Your name, please, If you don’t mind’ ‘Call me by any name you like, Ammini, KalyAni, Paru, Pattu’ ‘But they are not your names’ ‘So, you know whose names are those?’ ‘Yes, of course’ ‘And you won’t call me by those names?’ ‘No’ ‘That would do. You need not … Read more
Ammalu, what will be our age difference, approximately?’ ‘Why approximately? I will give you the correct figure. I’m older to you by 20 years’ ‘It can’t be 20. May be in the first digits only. 7,8,9?’ ‘Certainly not. I Remember my mom packing a dozen baby feeding bottles while seeing me off with you’ ‘I … Read more
Ammalu, a friendly advice. We should not fight when guests are there at home or when we go out together. I’m worried as it brings a bad name for you and you alone as people know me as a honorable gentleman ‘ ‘I too know you as a honorable gentleman. And I know something more … Read more
Pattu says I don’t look more than 55. Do I look more than 45, Ammalu? ‘No’ ‘Your ‘no’ is not emphatic. I can walk before you and show my agility’ ‘No need. Anyway, if you want to walk, hold my hand to get up from the sofa’ ‘Oh, that is too emphatic, Ammalu’ ————————- … Read more
Oldies are funny, many of them. They want their children to grow fast and become self dependent, but when they become that, they don’t like it. ‘Where to?’ Enquired Seshu, when his son was leaving home. ‘Dad, if I tell you the truth, you will be angry with me. If I don’t tell you the … Read more
Ammalu, I believe in telling my opinion ‘phat’ at the face of anyone, without bothering about their reaction, wife or her mother or even God or Goddess’ ‘Not a bad idea’ ‘So, you understood?’ ‘Yes, of course’ ‘Tell others too’ ‘My mom knows already. To the’Now, Ammalu, you are telling me ‘phat’!’ ‘I was … Read more
‘Ammalu, I bought this meeta pan for you, for the Mother’s Day’ ‘How sweet of you SP! You bought a sweet stuff that I like!’ ‘Ammalu, you never get angry with me?’ ‘You are my child, SP, youngest of all my children, most innocent to the extend of talking at times, irrelevant, irritating things. Will … Read more
‘Hope you don’t mind my asking you a plain question, Ammalu?’ ‘Plain question? What is that?’ ‘Had I married someone else, do you think I would have been happier?’ ‘I don’t know about you, but I would have been happier’ ‘How? How???’ ‘Because, because, no other husband will ask such stupid questions as you do!’ … Read more