Better luck, Next time

I mentioned earlier in one of my posts that I am not much of a saath janam ka rishtha** types. I feel variety is the spice of life. I’d like to try out my next birth with Shah Rukh Khan (SRK)*** for a hubby. Sigh!!!

But on second thoughts, I’d like to be a guy in my next birth. Actually, I want to be born as my husband. And I want him to be born as me. And even better, I want us both to remember our previous births. And I want to kick his butt! Not that he is kicking mine now. But I want to kick him anyways for being such a lazy bum.

He lives like a king. Check out a sample of his day: Get up, read paper for half an hour, Drink tea. Go to the loo for another half an hour and read the paper. Eat lunch (he works nights and therefore has a wonky schedule). Relax for a bit (maybe even sleep), dress up and head to work. Now isn’t that envious? He does not have to lift a finger.

Maybe I should give him some credit here. On weekends, he does lift a finger. To change the channels on TV!!. So on weekends, he watches TV, in addition to a back-breaking schedule of relaxing & sleeping some more.

When I complain, he says that I should try and go to office. Then I would understand. Hello?? Is anybody home?? I HAVE gone to office AND managed the home. Yes, I would cook, manage the home and work. Ha! So much for going to office and finding out for myself. His schedule remains the same. I know a lot of men pitch in and help out. The few times I have used my husband as a back-up in the kitchen, I practically had to scrape food off the ceiling in addition to a very messy kitchen. No. Thank you. I better handle that myself. You’d think that with a hotel management background and working in hotel kitchens, he would know a few things. Yeah, right! Like I am so lucky!

Now when I react like that, he says that that is the reason he is not able to help out. Because I am so finicky. Well, my take on it - For five years, you have been seeing how I do stuff. Can you not do at least a few things my way? What say? Like eating the car for example. Do we really need to do that on bumpy roads? Since I complain, they do it behind my back. Now isn’t that a nice way to handle the issue? The car looks like a pig sty.

And when I throw in the towel and decide to just leave things the way they are, he complains about the mess. Aha! Gotcha! So you want things spic n span, don’t want to do it yourself, leave no stone unturned when it comes to making a mess and expect me to clean it. Your agenda seems clear to me, buddy.

Do you think it is worth the effort and try and miss out on a super-exciting life with SRK?


** A popular Hindu belief that women should enjoy wedded bliss with a man for seven births. There is a special day of fast for a whole day to achieve this.

**** Famous Bollywood star. Sigh!!!!