Snippets of conversations:

Me: I read an anonymous blog today. The owner has identified herself as Pepper and very sweetly calls her husband as Mint, together they are PepperMint! Isn't it cool?

N: Why don’t they disclose their names?

Me: May be they don’t want to divulge their identities.

N: I think you should also be anonymous on your blog.

Me: Okie, then what will be my anonymous name?

N: You can call it as KaliMirch!

Me: But why KaliMirch?

N: That’s because you are dark and I am hot.

Me: What do I say? Grrrr

Me: Stop throwing the pillows all over the house

N: These pillows are meant for that, isn’t it?

Me: Oh really? How is that?

N: What are they called? Throw away pillows, right?

Me: Baah! Yeah! They are called throw away pillows but not meant to throw like this.

Men from Mars and Women from Venus

I had this conversation some time ago with H about equality between Men and Women.

H: Why does a woman compete with men on everything?

Me: Why shouldn’t we compete?

H: Women always fight for equality but when it comes to certain things they just keep quiet and do nothing. You (women) always look for exceptions.

Me: Oh, it’s not like that. What do you mean by exceptions? Give me an example

H: Whenever a man and woman enter a room, a woman expects a man to open. Why can’t it be the other way round? Have you ever seen a woman opening the door for men?

Me: It’s not a hard and fast rule that a man has to open the door for woman. Not always a man would do unless he is trying to impress a girl and needs to prove that he is a true gentleman.

H: Fine, what would you say for this? You women have reserved seats in the buses, isn’t it? If you fight for equal rights why can’t we men have equal number of reserved seats?

Me: Well, only few seats in the bus are reserved for us, rest everything is for men. No women would go and ask for a seat if men are sitting there.

H: It’s acceptable for women to take a break from work and look after the family but men can’t do that. If I have to quit my job for couple of years to look after my child, no one would give me a job if tell them I quit because I was looking after my child.

I couldn’t continue my argument after this as I was already late for my cab :-( But actually it put me into thinking, what he said was right.

Snippets of conversations:

This happened a while ago in a movie theatre. I was standing in the queue to buy movie tickets and accidentally bumped into a friend (I hadn’t met for ages) who was standing ahead of me. A sneak peek of our conversation:

Friend: Oh my god Sowmya! Is that you?
Me: Yes, It’s me the same Sowmya.
Friend: What are you doing here?
Me: What else can I be doing? Standing in the queue, I can only buy movie tickets right?
Friend: Oh good! Which movie?
Me: Guzaarish
Friend: Oh no, why on earth this movie? Didn’t you find any better movie to watch? This is one of the disastrous movies. It’s definitely not worth watching it. I would say no ‘paisa vasool’ for you. Damn! Not worth paying 275/- to watch Hrithik sitting on a wheel chair. Instead, why don’t you watch a different movie?
Me: Still pondering and standing in the queue
Friend: When her turn came, “Two tickets for Guzaarish, please”
Me (in my mind): Oh god! Why did she have to say all those things, when she was going to watch the same movie? People have to comment-just for the heck of it. Isn’t it weird?