Imagine u want to see a movie desperately and u cannot find company or you need to go to your friend's marriage and you know there is no one who can give u company there...what do you do?
In India, people have not yet come to terms with someone venturing alone to do certain things. Imagine you want to go on vacation, first question would be where are u going and then next with whom?
What can one do to avoid weird looks of people who seem to be trying to guess..why has this person come alone?
I have been in such situations couple of times...first person i would like to thank is the inventor of cellphones...i can always act busy checking messages or call up someone as SOS. As soon as u see someone with sympathy approaching you at function...call or act as if you are about to call someone.
In flights/trains, have met some people who would like to extract your entire bio data....at those times...i thank the inventor of headphones/ipod. I can always act as if i have not heard them...it happened to me once...i was flying back from Amsterdam to Delhi. The flight took off 3 times but because of some issue, we landed back at Amsterdam. Hence as a result, the two people who were sitting next to be on either side knew each and everything about me...when they started off giving me gyan...i realized its time to either act asleep or put on headphones :)
2 comments:
Very interesting, Madhu. :) The next time you are on the phone I am going to think you are avoiding me. :)
he he...i dont ignore friends..so u can never catch me :)
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