Out came a thought and then another...

You know how it is with relationships - you meet a person for the first time, make up your mind based on appearances (manners are a part of it) and over the next few meetings either gravitate towards or pull away from them as your opinion gets built on. Therefore you'd agree that if I knew a person very well for about four years, I should be able to judge that person's taste well based on past experience.

Now let's jump to this conversation:

Him: "Hey, whats with your raving about Troy? It is a lousy movie"

Me: "Rubbish. People like movies for different reasons. Troy was visually appealing to me. Such rich blues, ah!"

Him: "You saw it for Brad Pitt. I know it. You married women are dangerous"

Me: "Are you utterly jobless? I refuse to be baited."

Him: "C'mon, confess to me, wasn't it Brad Pitt?"

Me: "Actually it was Hector. What is that guy's real name btw?"

Him: "Hector? Hmm...never mind. So when are we meeting up?"

Me: "Don't know man. Let's see. Dinner in a day or two perhaps? Let me check the hubby's convenience too...so what are you upto now?"

Him: "Nothing in particular. I've rented a few movies, will probably watch those. My folks are out, so I have the entire house to myself. My mom's nagging is getting worse. She is forever trying to fix me up!"

Me: "Ha, ha...maybe I should call her and offer to help."

Him: "Shut the hell up willya. Don't do this to me Ms.Busybody"

Me: "Okay, I was just kidding. You needn't work yourself up into a fury now. So, what movies did you rent?"

Him: "Err...the usual...recent ones"

Me: " Like what? The Passion of the Christ? Or is it one of your World Cinema moments?

Him: "Well, it is actually...now, can you keep a secret?"

Me: "You are asking me if I can keep a secret? Isn't that precisely the reason why you associate with me?"

Him: "Okay, you cannot laugh now. I borrowed Jhoot, Gilli and one more, wait...yeah, Chellame."

Me: "You borrowed what? My God, did you borrow gen Tamil movies? Christ! This is capital...hee hee"

{I laughed non-stop for close to a minute and very embarrassingly reminded him of his past statements about commercial movies}

Him: "Stop it. Can't you see how difficult it is for me to admit this to you?"

Me: "Gugggh...sure I can..hee hee"

Him: "Damn, why did I ever tell you this? Who the hell asked you to call me now?"

Me: "Well who asked you to pick up that phone? You never do usually."

Him: "Okay, I do watch dabba Tamil movies once in a while okay...that is a fact that I do not admit to. Now, can we pretend we did not have this conversation?"

Me: "What conversation?"

Him: "Good Girl! Okay I better get going now. Call you later okay?"

Me: {suppressing giggle} "Sure. Let us do that dinner thing soon. Bye"

After this conversation (which happened around 4 on a Sunday afternoon), I promptly turned my attention to the muted TV screen to watch Shahjahan, which incidentally, I was watching for the fourth time on TV!

Posted by Echo/Lavanya on Sunday, July 16, 2006 at 2:21 PM | Permalink