DISCLAIMAR: - All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any
resemblance to real persons, living or dead is purely coincidental.
You must be
wondering about the “Disclaimer”. Hmmmm, that’s very important for this piece.
Let me hit the nail now. DI and MI sounds
weird isn’t it? “DI = Daughter In Law and MI= Mother In Law”. In
real life even the characters are little weird. For those who got
offended please go back to the “Disclaimer”.
I know!! I was
lazy these many days not to write something and just relax. But that was not
the reason. I was watching a nice flick between DI’s and MI’s and
was lost by looking these bunch of talented people who are capable of bull
fighting with a laughing face. These are few incidents which I came across
recently and I was provoked to write about this.
INCIDENTS:-
1. In a house party: - There was
this collection of paintings put up in one of my friend’s place and this friend
of mine is a DI. She had a bunch of awesome paintings by many great
artists like Raja Ravi Varma, Jamini Roy, Picasso, Titian etc. The crowd was
keen to see these wonderful paintings. There arrives my friend’s MI.
Dressed modest, sparkling high heels; her perfume fragrance was spread across
the room. My friend invites her MI with a grinning face. But,
I could see the cold war between them pouring out of their kindness towards
each other. Here starts the real story. “MI to her fellow MI- The
paintings are up to the mark. My daughter paints so well you know… She got
first place in her college talents day this time. That doesn’t mean that
my DI is not great. But, she could have taken some guidance
from my daughter before she painted these canvases. Anyway next time she does
the same, I am going to suggest her.” This is how MI in this
incident ended her criticism on the paintings. Do you think I have to end this
incident by giving a conclusion? I will leave it on you folks. I had a
comic blast that evening. And the award for the best criticism on
paintings goes to my friend’s foolish… sorry, sorry “STYLISH MI”.
2. Out in the bright: - A lousy
bright morning, holding my hot cup of coffee I went out, as I heard strong voices.
It was a usual fight between a DI and MI. I really
enjoy watching these fights. It feels like I am wearing 3D glasses with nachos
in my hand and witnessing the last scene of Karate Kid. Pushing my witty
thoughts aside, I was enjoying the show. I loved MI’s cleverness in
this scene. You know why? Wait for this incident to end. Even you will fall in
love. Fight starts with DI shouting to the loudest of her
voice. She made common people see god’s that day, as her voice was reaching
those heights.(Even they, I mean god’s must be enjoying the show and would have
thought why disturb them and kept quiet putting their 3D glasses and nachos
back, as I did. ) DI in this case was a short female and
opposite was her very tall MI. As I noticed and up to my limited
knowledge DI had finished all most all the fantastic words in
her dictionary. Fight was a very short one according to me. Because it’s called
a proper fight only when both the opponents do justice to their roles. In this
case only DI was doing her bit and MI says
only one sentence after her DI is done and that is… “MI looks
horizontally and says I think some dog is barking out my dear DI, I
can’t see it. Can you please go out and throw a stone at him?” DI was
creeped out. MI was a real sarcastic female as she pretended
as if she can’t see her short DI who sounded like a dog.
Though I enjoyed the show for a short while, I had a treat seeing this
clever MI. Hope you guys fell in love with this lady’s cleverness
aswell. And the award for the best background score goes to my
neighbour’s harsh voiced… sorry, sorry “SWEET VOICED DI”.
3. The Wedding Saga: - Generally,
attending weddings is not at all my cup of tea, coffee or anything HOT for
that matter. But, poor me was forced to attend some weddings because of 101
reasons of daily life which even you folks would have come across by now. Enjoy
what you do is simultaneously equal to Enjoy what you see in my case. First
thing I do in weddings is standing in queue to wish the couple so that my next
target of eating the humongous spread hits accordingly. As the family of the
couple were famous in the city the hall was crowded and I had to wait for some
time to get on stage. Meanwhile, I started noticing this DI
and MI who were up next to wish the couple. Both were very well
dressed and seemed like they were more interested in photographs than wishing
the newly wed. Both had a still camera each in their hands and went up on
stage. My concentration deviated as I met an old friend and we both were in
conversation for at least 20 minutes. I was happy as the crowed moved and was
also depressed as I missed this self-obsessed DI and MI’s scene.
Guess what? Couple were out of the scene, I panicked. I thought couple
were done with the wishers and went back to rest. But, scene there was
different. The so called self-obsessed DI and MI were busy
striking poses and clicking their own pictures. Bride and Groom were out of my
sight down stage fed-up of this DI and MI couple. I somehow started
liking attending weddings from then on as I had an evening filled with funny
scene around me. Hope even you guys would explore something like this. So,
please attend weddings or family functions. And the award for the
best pose goes to…. God, I am so confused and yet to decide as the poses of both
