Once when I was in B-school and had left my shoes to dry outside my room, an ugly-gooey-sticky growth had been formed on one of my shoe laces...I was so grossed out I was ready to throw them and my friend Ritu commented "arre pagal hai kya... ghar kaise chalayegi"... and it hit me.. surely running a house is a grizzly business and it requires more determination and courage than cleaning a shoelace! Some incidents that show case that running a house is not for the fain hearted:
Proof 1: We had a huge ceiling fan in our balcony, one afternoon a pigeon flew into it and there was blood feathers and bones everywhere. BTW my mother is a strict vegetarian and almost a Jain when it comes to harming animals, she was terrified, she called someone to collect the carcass, swept the whole balcony with phenol so that there is no smell, put clothes in washing machine and all this before we reached home from school as she didn't want any of us to see the sight or any evidence of what had happened.
Proof 2:
Our Nayi Naveli Washing Machine... stopped working barely 2 months after we bought it. The LG mechanic took 3 seconds to diagnose that the problem is that a RAT entered the machine and is eating way the wires!... I yelled and screeched a like a girl while he shook the machine... and then he told me the Rat is still on my balcony railing... I couldn't chase it away...he clapped loudly and the mouse fell off the balcony railing.
Proof 3: Now come on you may say.... rat lizrard cockroaches are a way of life and nothing out of ordinary....BUT BUT BUT Of all the animals one may expect to enter in a flat, am sure BAT is absolutely the last on anyone's mind. Yet it happened. Thank fully on a day when i was not in the house; Preshit gets up and goes to our second bedroom and sees a strange BLACK MASS, HE IS JUST ABOUT TO SWITCH ON THE LIGHT WHEN HE REALIZES THAT HE HAS SEEN a BAT!...He does what anyone else can do... call the "guard bhaiya".
Proof 5: In 1.5 years of married life Preshit and i have changed our house 3 times. IN all times both of us have different idea of what cleanliness means and therefore we have each struggled with establishing "clean" house every time we move. Moving into a house is a big strain and again every time I am tempted to throw out stuff rather than clean it.
Probably this is why we feel that even though Men are stronger than women, women are tougher than men... because they were the ones who handled these everyday incidents of eww and eeks and toughened it out!
Proof 1: We had a huge ceiling fan in our balcony, one afternoon a pigeon flew into it and there was blood feathers and bones everywhere. BTW my mother is a strict vegetarian and almost a Jain when it comes to harming animals, she was terrified, she called someone to collect the carcass, swept the whole balcony with phenol so that there is no smell, put clothes in washing machine and all this before we reached home from school as she didn't want any of us to see the sight or any evidence of what had happened.
Proof 2:
Our Nayi Naveli Washing Machine... stopped working barely 2 months after we bought it. The LG mechanic took 3 seconds to diagnose that the problem is that a RAT entered the machine and is eating way the wires!... I yelled and screeched a like a girl while he shook the machine... and then he told me the Rat is still on my balcony railing... I couldn't chase it away...he clapped loudly and the mouse fell off the balcony railing.
Proof 3: Now come on you may say.... rat lizrard cockroaches are a way of life and nothing out of ordinary....BUT BUT BUT Of all the animals one may expect to enter in a flat, am sure BAT is absolutely the last on anyone's mind. Yet it happened. Thank fully on a day when i was not in the house; Preshit gets up and goes to our second bedroom and sees a strange BLACK MASS, HE IS JUST ABOUT TO SWITCH ON THE LIGHT WHEN HE REALIZES THAT HE HAS SEEN a BAT!...He does what anyone else can do... call the "guard bhaiya".
Proof 5: In 1.5 years of married life Preshit and i have changed our house 3 times. IN all times both of us have different idea of what cleanliness means and therefore we have each struggled with establishing "clean" house every time we move. Moving into a house is a big strain and again every time I am tempted to throw out stuff rather than clean it.
Probably this is why we feel that even though Men are stronger than women, women are tougher than men... because they were the ones who handled these everyday incidents of eww and eeks and toughened it out!
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