Modern kande pohe…

Oops wrong number !!!

Preface:

They have decided where to meet. Initial talk on phone was very hesitant and brief. They have seen each other’s profile on the matrimonial website and so decided to meet at a normal Indian restaurant on a busy street of a semi metro city.

Scene:

She is waiting outside the restaurant [for a blind date ?!] Dressed in a traditional Indian outfit, a salwar kameez. Thick eyelashes colored black turned outwards. A tint of kajal in brown eyes, albeit of lipstick and a small dot of black bindi, making sure she doesn’t look a kaku bai .

Gal: [looking at her wristwatch and frowning off course coz the guy hasn’t reached yet huh]

Meanwhile she turns her head here and there a hundred times in search of a face similar to the one she has seen in the profile photograph.

Gal: [looking at a guy inside the restaurant , I think he is the one …]

Guy: [ I think she is the one…]

Their eyes met. He was sitting at one of the tables. He gets up and walks a couple of steps to greet her.

Gal: Hi !? [Smiles / blushes, not bad hmm…,looks albeit smarter than the photograph…gr8]

Guy: Hi !! [Smiles, pointing towards the table he was sitting at] We will sit here?

Gal: Shall we sit here instead?

Yeah gals call it is!!! They sit opposite to each other at the table chose by the gal. And yes the famous silence breaks in.

Guy: so how did u manage to reach here?

Gal: Oh well, took a bus, public transport and my place is too far so sorry to make u wait for so long.

Guy: No problem, no problem it’s ok.

Both of them now run out of topic to start with, so they have the glass of water placed in front of them.

Gal: So where did u say u are working at?[ wat a stupid question u idiot !!!Now to herself]

Guy: I am working in a MNC in Japan. Came down to India to get married [smiles on his joke]

Gal: [smiling and confused ] I didn’t know you work abroad , dad told me u work here only .

Guy: hmm ….may be [confused] Are u Prajakta ? I am Sagar kulkarni !!!

Gal: [DAMN IT WRONG NO !!!!!] No I m not Prajakta. [Shit he is but not the one whom I have come to meet]

They can’t look at each other now. Both of them couldn’t stop laughing. Completely embarrassed she walks out of the restaurant and calls up the profile guy now. Still laughing , gal finds the profile guy and what a funny coincidence Prajakta also walks in the place. Our gal is now sitting on the table next to the Sagar’s table with her right guy. Both the couples now discuss if they are the right match for each other.

Our gal now going back home in the same public transport bus. Smiling at herself “I should have at least taken Sagar’s contact no. damn it!!!”