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A strange conversation I recently had with my driver
Driver: I’m looking for a nice girl for my son.
Me: Oh, so anything working out?
Driver: No. The last girl we saw we didn’t like.
Me: Why not?
Driver: Oru sotha pal (decayed tooth) irindhidhu
Me: ????? Oru sotha pal? It’s not a genetic disease you know – you can fix that!
Driver: It looked bad. And it was a front tooth!
That explained it. Even a turnip growing out of her head is better than a front tooth that’s decayed.
Driver (oblivious to my indignation): Besides she had a problem with her feet.
Me: Why, was she limping?
Driver: No, but my Mrs. (as he calls his wife) saw that her feet weren’t arched. They were flat!
Horror of horrors! God forbid flat feet from crossing his threshold!
Me (spluttering): Soooo?
Driver: Adhu seri varaadhu ma!
Conversation shifts to dowry.
Me: Sigh! So tell me do you take dowry?
Driver: We don’t call it dowry
Me: Then what do you call it?
Driver: Suit money
Me: What???
Driver: Yeah. We ask for money to stitch a suit
Me: How much can you possibly ask for a suit??
Driver (airily): Oh, up to 40-50000.
Me: (Speechless)
I was amazed there are such people around who knock off a girl from the list because her nails are not pink enough or her elbows too rounded. Pity the poor girl (with arched feet and all 32 pearly whites intact) who enters that household with her father's lifetime earnings.
posted by Dog's Best Friend @ 9:12 AM
8 Comments:
thats typical everywhere. we're trying to get my cousin married and there is no end to the madness.
One chap has a medical degree from Ukraine but wants an educated girl. He has a pot belly, but wants the girl to be slim.
Another person, "We don't take dowry, but the marriage should be good." (he wants us to spend a *lot* of money on the wedding. giving a silver coin to every person attending the wedding)
WTF!!!
WTF indeed ...
I think the whole arranged marriage thing works well for some but the process really sucks!
let me guess. you had an arranged marriage :P
yeah, for some reason arranged marriages work better than normal marriages. there are fewer divorces. just higher combustion rates in the females :P
nope I had a luuuuuuuv marriage ...but AMs have worked for a lot of people I know..and has really sucked for some others...so we can't generalise can we...
I think relationships are just too damn hard....
btw what's with the Arranged Vs "NORMAL" marriage? when did love become normal? Its insane!
I can see that you are still speechless. Please to get over your speechlessness and write new post.
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i think we're just becoming waaaaaaaay too complicated, as generations pass by. even 2 or 3 generations ago, weddings were arranged - and carefully so, by the elders - and to me, they seem to have worked remarkably well. yeah, the oldies quarrel and all that, but thats just their way of loving.
and talking of rejections - i personally know a few girls who go thru the motions - and most of the times, end up rejecting the guys for some stupid reason or the other.
I agree d'bum ...
Women are also getting too choosy -the oldies lament all the time that there are no girls available any more to fix up eligible boys with...of which there are just way too many...
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