Suicide Attempt!

My friend EA is damn serious about everything in life, especially about flirting. At any given point of time, she must have a guy around who wants to marry her.

So one day she called up from nowhere land and said: "Hey i am getting engaged in ten days!" My first reaction (by default): "Why!" I realised that wasnt a nice thing to say, so i corrected myself and said, "EA are u alright?" Ahem!

Well, she is pretty alright. BUT she is engaged at 21! Shez not pressurised. My personal guess is that shes just in a wee bit hurry about something.

Marriage is such a big deal. EE is extremely paranoid about commitment and i guess so am i. It only gets worse when parents force it on their daughters cos they're 21!

So it happened that i was meeting this other friend from bangalore, school buddy again. She & I were meeting after 4 years but we quite set the cafeteria on fire. Not literally though, she yapped and i did, four years' notes exchanged. Present really didnt matter, for we still lingered in the past.

Her cousin faces some similar problem, a marathi family, they've started looking for a guy! Minus one year from 21 and at that age she has lots of career plans and dreams. So she cried her heart out with my friend and her cousin. My friend is quite a rebel and thanks to those traits, she talked to her masi and mom if they were looking a guy for her too! Her mom, like all moms i guess, very tactfully replied: "Tum maa banogi tab samjhogi!" [Ahem, does she have to wait that long to understand why get somebody married at 21?]

She was so furious, she had a headache, she took a disprin and went to sleep in her room. She didnt wake up for a couple of hours and when her mom went to her room she was aghast! Her daughter and my friend had, beside her bed, a foil of disprin completely empty. Her mom was petrified, suicide attempt, her daughter and my nursery buddy! gosh!

So my friends mom started panicking, hearing the ruckus, my friend woke up.
Mom: Beta tune aisa kyoon kiya?
My groggy friend: Maine kya kiya mom?
Mom: That empty sachet of disprin
My groggy friend: Mom there was only one medicine in the entire foil and i ate it cos i had a terrible headache

Suicide attempt, a bit of crazy laughter, couple of stares from the neighbouring tables and then probably marriage! DISPRIN PLEASE!