K Calling

10:45 pm

And the phone rang.I was half asleep after a long and tiring day at office.Anyways, getting back to the phone call.

Reluctantly, I answered the call( as it was from an unknown number). It was K(the guy, my friend wanted to set me up with) For details click here. He introduced himself and asked if it wasn't too late to call.For the sake of courtesy(or whatever you may call it...And FYI, I find it really difficult to say No, even to strangers) I said it was okay and asked him to continue.

And soon ,it was more than an hour since I was on the phone.I am a complete chatterbox, and it is quite impossible to shut me up, once you get me started(provided, I don't lose interest in you). He never asked me any silly questions which other perspective grooms ask, and maybe I got too comfortable too soon. Talking to him was like talking to a friend. We had a few common topics to chit-chat about,maybe because we come from the same 'small -town' and we both lived in Delhi, sometime. Though his love for 'Saadi -Dilli' could not match mine! We tried to get to know each other, and by the time the phone call ended, I had created a certain kind of image in my mind and associated him with it! And mind you, most of the time, I judge people correctly!

Meanwhile, all these days, our common friend, V was trying to persuade to me to talk about K, to my parents.And being the sidhi-saadhi-sharmili-gharelu kanya that I am, I was avoiding that(okay okay, I am nothing even close to all those adjectives, but I just did not want to strike that conversation, so that my folks don't start feeling that I am really really interested in getting married asap.So,suggesting a guy, would have meant committing a sin).But, then I believed that it would be better if I told them myself, at least it would be better than getting to know from V or her mom( V's mom was getting into match-making mode)

So, I told my folks ,and for a moment, they were over-excited that finally I have chosen a guy for myself! But, they calmed down when I told them the whole story! And as Murphy would have it, V's mom bumped into mine,at the local vegetable market.And rest is history.

They met, and then my folks and K's folks had a telephonic conversation.Everything was fine except that they asked "How long will Runaway Bride continue with her job?"

All Over!

My judgement was correct, K wants to settle down in the 'small town' with his family.And Runaway Bride works for a corporate giant which doesn't operate from any of the so called small towns.Although she doesn't love her job, but she has no plans to quit and become a loser house-wife.(No offence meant to any of the great ladies who have chosen to be perfect home-makers)

And Thats How I Met Mr V

No, The phone call I was talking about in the last post did not happen at all, because yours truly was very buzy hunting for a new job.Unfortunately, no luck yet :( There is something in me which stops me from trying to concentrate on more than one thing, at the same time.Maybe it is the gyaan which one of my teachers at college gave, that never start a new job and a new marriage, at the same time, coz in most of such cases, people tend to screw one of those things!

So, all in the mood of job hunt, I conveniently switched Mr K(from the previous post) to the backseat and never indicated the need of a conversation.I was too buzy doing whatever I thought was the right thing to do, given the circumstances I am in.

And suddenly, Mr V pops into my life. I get a call from my dad saying that Mr V is the best guy on earth and he would be a perfect match( According to him, there were a dozen perfect matches, whom I didn't even find eligible to even talk to, for that matter) Anyways, I agreed to talk to him, on the condition,he calls me first. (As per dad, Mr V is a shy guy). But he called me and we decided to meet. The worst part, he works for the same organization that I do, and that meant, we would be meeting in office the next day.No excuses :(

The next day, Mr V was very buzy...He smsed me that probably we can meet another time.I was neither happy nor sad about it, I was comfortably numb I guess.A day passed by and he pinged me when I was out of office, enjoying a lavish lunch at a nearby restaurant.

I reached office in an hour, and it was time to meet Mr V.I was doing something like this for the first time, so I had laughter fits imagining myself in such a situation.Traditionally, I would be wearing a saree with my head covered with a pallu and carrying a tray with tea-cups and snacks for Mr V and his family members and my mom and dad saying "She has made all those snacks with her own hands for you. She is a wonderful cook".And then, I would offer all those to Mr V and his family, after touching their feet to get their blessings.This thought gave me laugheter fits which were really unstoppable.As I was meeting him in office, there was no family and no tray to carry;-) (Even if I had to meet him at my home, I would have made sure that I am not wearing a saree and neither would I have agreed to carry the tray)

Like a gentleman, Mr V made sure he reached the food-court before me.I saw him standing in a queue to get the coupons for the tea he wanted to have.And that made me go LOL from inside.I was not carrying the tray full of tea cups, rather he was standing in a long queue to satisfy his need for caffine.I liked that.I approached him and he offered to buy me a drink(tea/coffee :P). But, since I am not addicted to any one of those, I politely refused, and added a 'thanks'

We sat in one of those quiet corners,clueless about what should we talk about. Believe me, this was his first time too.And he was as ignorant as I was.Yours truly started the conversation, as Mr V seemed a shy guy.I was able to get him talking, though I was the one who was doing the most of it.Half an hour passed by, and we were just cribbing about the organization we work for, and nothing else. That was the only thing we had in common.

In his spare time Mr V likes to play/watch all kind of sports or try his hands on coding.While, these would be the things I would not do in my free time, even if I am paid for it.He is quiet and takes time to open up, while I can go on blabbering about things, even when I am with complete strangers.Believe me, it is not a bad thing to do as I have made some friends for lifetime because, I am this way!

Soon, it was time to leave.Finally, the laughter fits going inside me subsided.Just then, I saw few of my team-mates coming from the opposite side.Under normal circumstances, I would have come with them, but, here, I was sitting with a guy ,blushing,(for the first time)Later, I told them that he was a friend, who had returned from onsite after a long time.

Not knowing what to talk about next, as we didn't have any common interests, we decided to leave, with an open end.
 

It was funny.I still am giggling thinking about it.