Mossy chali Sasural
After months of diehard preparations, Mossy is finally all ready for the big day. Her stuff has been shifted to the new home she will share with my new Mossa. The relatives from either side have begun to congregate. GrandMossy, Mossy's mum, is showing signs of hypertension and GrandMossa, her father, of depression. The third emotional phase of the wedding preparation has dawned upon us- first comes the teasing, then comes the excitement and finally, the sadness.
Mossa arrived from Pune yesterday. I might as well tell you his name- Anand. We invited him to dinner with the family last night- just to give him a real taste of what he was about to get himself into. Something of an initiation ceremony. The women cooed over the new addition to our brood, amazed at how people-friendly and camera-friendly Anand is. There were minor cheek-pinching and hair-ruffling incidents. Anand survived with minor injuries to body and, what I think were, major injuries to the ego. He should get used to it.
My older cousins were busy hatching some rather vile wedding night pranks, and the younger, more impatient bunch were busy hatching some rather vile pranks for right now. "Lets see how far we can stretch his patience" had become our mantra. Some of Mossy's friends joined us after dinner to examine this new specimen and were mighty pleased. How did I know this? I heard one call him a hunk and another used the words "big hunk of meat". Yes, very disturbing for me but I'm sure Mossy will approve.
The men of our clan? Now thats a different issue all together. After dinner was done and Anand had been scarred and scared for life by the ladies, the men called him over to their corner of the living room. Manly chat and that sort of thing. They asked Anand about his job, his stock market preferences, his views on the latest news headlines and all that. We love our family men, we really really do. What big piles of mush they really are. Each one of them is having the toughest time dealing with Mossy's marriage, far more than the rest of us. They try to mask it with some sort of diluted bravado, but we know they're melting.
Still, overall the Interrogation of Anand went quite well and the man passed with flying colours. He's a good guy, genuine, with his feet on the ground and head on his shoulders. And sure, when him and Mossy stand next to each other, Mossy has to wear 5 inch heels so that they don't look like Bigs and Smalls, but you can tell they make each other very happy. I saw them sitting and talking to each other last night after the whole shebang and I don't think I've ever seen two people look more radiant in each other's company.
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It's Mausi and Mausa! Stop trying to pass them off as flora and fauna.
Hehe ..shit should make like a documentray out of this .. where were Discovery Travel and Living
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