Saturday, April 08, 2006

Aunts or Uncles?

My thoughts lately have been revolving around my marriage. The D-day has been decided and is being declared to the world albeit slowly. Why slowly? I have perfect answers; one, becuase of my nawabiness (laziness as you morons prefer to call it) and two because I feel my parents are not doing enough declaring due to the uneasy questions they will face. Here we come to the focal point of my post. Do they face the most uneasy questions from aunties or uncles; basically are aunties more nosier than their better halves (and the media)? My two rupees on this is "YES DEAREST!! THEY ARE!". They are so frigging jobless that they prove the saying "an idle mind is a devil's workshop" to the core. So much so that when we say we fear the society we actually mean we fear "aunties".

I sure am going to face a barrage of questions from the aunties sooner or later on the "bride to be". Questions like "Why are you doing this?", "Where did you meet her?", "Why did you like each other?" or even worse "why did she like you?", "Oh! is she the reason why you dont call us anymore?", "Were those her parents that were there at your brother's marriage?", "Why a brahmin?", "How often do you guys meet each other?", "Why doesnt you mom tell us anything?", "Are you relieved that yours is not the first intercaste marriage in our family?", "Does she have fair skin?". The last question always beats the yellow bulbs outta me. How do I answer that question? Do I tell them that I fu*king dont care what colour her skin is as long as she is beautiful? Or do i ask them why the fu*k do you wanna know? Or does it matter what colour a person's skin is? Or do I just say as a matter of fact she is neither fair nor dark. The time spent answering these questions before my marriage should be really interesting and irritating.

I feel aunties should get a real job for themselves other than cooking. I guess journalism would be great for them.