In the company of married friends...

Saturday night was very interesting. We were 9 of us at Soda’s place, the composition being 3 couples and 3 of us singles. Now counting Vidhi out made us 3 couples and 2 singles and what was remarkable about the evening was the stark difference between the married and the lukhas. Take some lukhas and what you see is cards, beer and some totally bizarre talk. Now u take some married people and what u get is a conversation on how the quality of water supply is bad or what artifact would best suit the design of their sitting area. Can you beat it, yesterday we were playing games like Taboo!!!! I mean yesterday so clearly brought out the way men get tamed after marriage. Ankur so smartly brought out Johnnie Walker, Grey Goose and followed it up with the always there Baileys. He knew, in front of controlling eyes, everyone will have very little. Would he ever do something like that with only men around? Forget that, we even reached the sophistication of having whiskey in cut glasses and Baileys in a goblet. WoW!!!! But the class in drinking was best beaten by the overall ambiance in the place. Imagine yaar, being overwhelmed by the married folks, we were left to discussing things like which sofa cum bed is best suited for small Bombay houses, how water is a perennial issue and the best was how it is really painful to go out shopping cause the respective wives don’t approve of home delivered supposedly stale vegetables. Going for vegetables shopping; God!!!! But it’s really enjoyable to be with married people once in a while. Unlike your married counterparts, you don’t have to be afraid of closets being opened. I mean what the heck, common speak whatever u want to; nobody is going to take my ass once I reach home. But with married people, they were like in a constant state of vigil and scare; you simply don’t know you will be held up for what and the best part is when their wives so sweetly scare their lesser halfs…Ghar chalo, phir batate hain…!!!!