“We are having a family dinner next sunday.”
This declaration was greeted with a shocked silence.
Then a storm of protests broke out.
“Does this mean I have to share my ipad with Anusha the twit.?”
“No way , Mama, There is a repeat telecast of “Prisoner of Azkaban”, and Ayush is again going to ruin it by flying his wretched aeroplane in my face .Last weekend, by the time I rescued it from the curtain loops, my “Dark Knight “was over.
“Look,I am in no way responsible for the sulkiness of your sister Mona, and I am definitely not going to apologize to her dimwit husband, Harry the hairy, for not calling him up even once last week. So don’t make me.” This from the head of my family. Sigh.
Please ask Aunt Mona not to bring those rock-hard home made cookies, please.Even if I forgive her, my friends won’t.Two of the guys lost their premolars to those stones.”
“Stealers of your tiffin , you mean.”
“Whatever.”
“This is a very bad idea.”
“Can’t you somehow cancel it ? You could say we are all down with conjunctivitis or some such contagion?”
“Okay, okay calm down. For heaven’s sake, it is just a dinner. They will be here at 8 and be gone by 10.”
“And leave us shattered…”
“And toothless..”
“Don’t forget my missed movie….”
This declaration was greeted with a shocked silence.
Then a storm of protests broke out.
“Does this mean I have to share my ipad with Anusha the twit.?”
“No way , Mama, There is a repeat telecast of “Prisoner of Azkaban”, and Ayush is again going to ruin it by flying his wretched aeroplane in my face .Last weekend, by the time I rescued it from the curtain loops, my “Dark Knight “was over.
“Look,I am in no way responsible for the sulkiness of your sister Mona, and I am definitely not going to apologize to her dimwit husband, Harry the hairy, for not calling him up even once last week. So don’t make me.” This from the head of my family. Sigh.
Please ask Aunt Mona not to bring those rock-hard home made cookies, please.Even if I forgive her, my friends won’t.Two of the guys lost their premolars to those stones.”
“Stealers of your tiffin , you mean.”
“Whatever.”
“This is a very bad idea.”
“Can’t you somehow cancel it ? You could say we are all down with conjunctivitis or some such contagion?”
“Okay, okay calm down. For heaven’s sake, it is just a dinner. They will be here at 8 and be gone by 10.”
“And leave us shattered…”
“And toothless..”
“Don’t forget my missed movie….”