All Lines In This Route....
Taking cue from Soo , I thought I'll touch upon another interesting aspect of weddings. To be specific, the "journey between engagement and wedding". Apologies, if that sounded like the punch line of a Suraj Barjatya movie :-S
New age weddings have this "forced" social drama, that typically starts post engagement - Phone calls ! You dont follow this 'ritual', and you will be tagged unexcited and disinterested in the whole proceedings...
I know a friend. He is more of an average human being till his marriage was fixed. Even a few days into the engagement, he was pretty much norma. That is when he got a call from his fiance in a low shy complaining tone "Why dont you call me?". The last I heard about this pair is that their calls end at 3AM in the night. I have no clue, what time it starts !
People who commute to office/home on foot are highly benefited. They have the so-called "privacy" while being on the phone. Of course, the unfamiliar passer-by who doesnt know the word "bluetooth" may wonder if this fellow has lost his senses talking all by himself..
Now, the most interesting question...
What do they talk for so long ?!!!!!
These are the typical topics:
How was the day ? What color do you like ? blah blah blah...
After initial days of blah blah, they run of topics, and this is what happens:
So.... ? What else... ? You say something....
The most commonly dragged-into subject for conversations would be friends. And the fun-aspects take the centre-stage. The speaker makes sure that he/she is depicted as the hero in the story and the rest of the crowd has that clown attire.
Then movies, news, cricket(?), preparations, invitations....
Phew! I envy the Mobile Companies.. They sure are reaping the harvest of the season.
Particularly if the pair talks across the state border....
Tail:
1. Did you know ? The call drops all by itself when the ticker hits 60mins !
(That was news to me :D )
2. Ever heard of a 27second call ? :-P
3. Think of a doc-engr pair. The parties will have a lot of "variety" topics to talk. The words, ASIC, router, backbone doesnt make any sense to the doc. The words pathology, duty hardly makes any sense to the engr :-S
4. How do friends react ? If you dont call him/her, they say "What an idiot you are". If your phone is busy, they say "Give some rest to that mobile". Friends....!!! sigh... :P
New age weddings have this "forced" social drama, that typically starts post engagement - Phone calls ! You dont follow this 'ritual', and you will be tagged unexcited and disinterested in the whole proceedings...
I know a friend. He is more of an average human being till his marriage was fixed. Even a few days into the engagement, he was pretty much norma. That is when he got a call from his fiance in a low shy complaining tone "Why dont you call me?". The last I heard about this pair is that their calls end at 3AM in the night. I have no clue, what time it starts !
People who commute to office/home on foot are highly benefited. They have the so-called "privacy" while being on the phone. Of course, the unfamiliar passer-by who doesnt know the word "bluetooth" may wonder if this fellow has lost his senses talking all by himself..
Now, the most interesting question...
What do they talk for so long ?!!!!!
These are the typical topics:
How was the day ? What color do you like ? blah blah blah...
After initial days of blah blah, they run of topics, and this is what happens:
So.... ? What else... ? You say something....
The most commonly dragged-into subject for conversations would be friends. And the fun-aspects take the centre-stage. The speaker makes sure that he/she is depicted as the hero in the story and the rest of the crowd has that clown attire.
Then movies, news, cricket(?), preparations, invitations....
Phew! I envy the Mobile Companies.. They sure are reaping the harvest of the season.
Particularly if the pair talks across the state border....
Tail:
1. Did you know ? The call drops all by itself when the ticker hits 60mins !
(That was news to me :D )
2. Ever heard of a 27second call ? :-P
3. Think of a doc-engr pair. The parties will have a lot of "variety" topics to talk. The words, ASIC, router, backbone doesnt make any sense to the doc. The words pathology, duty hardly makes any sense to the engr :-S
4. How do friends react ? If you dont call him/her, they say "What an idiot you are". If your phone is busy, they say "Give some rest to that mobile". Friends....!!! sigh... :P
posted by Rat at 9:13 AM
4 Comments:
my excuse for cutting calls early was that "my ear pains after being on call for 10 mins.. " ;-)
Oops.. I came to let the world know of my hubby's 10-min-tolerance ears and here he is, already admitted his weakness ;)
Now, a few points:
1) Tks for the link on 'Soo' [finally, some traffic! :-p], but in case you are referring to my recent article for the 'cue', pls put a link to the article and not to my blog alone ;), coz I'll be posting another one soon.
2) Doc-enggr pair mention was well-researched. But you made a mistake in saying doc doesn't understand router, backbone. I thought the word 'backbone' was started using in n/w for its obvious biological meaning. maranno? :-p
3) Pinne, nice article tto :) I guess there can be more articles 'taking the cue' ;)
4) About what they talk.. hmm.. no clue! All I remember talking was "Samayamaayo ninde chevi vedana edukkan?!!" :-S
5) And the "forced" drama, well.. don you think its forced? And you think its drama? I don't feel it so. This is just a convenience-bridge built for supporting the voices of 2 generations - one, who are staunch believers of "no-love-courting-talking" before weddings and other, who wants to "get-to-know-the-person" before settling down. I feel it makes life much easier! And its NOT forced :D
Amen!
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@Sand - nice way of pulling out ;-)
@Soo - Well, that's quite a lot of lines u've written :D
1. The 'cue' link is updated
2. Backbone sure is medical! My bad :P
3. Forced - not really. It is a 'useful' drama :-P
@Gas - Well...
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