ED: This one is a beauty from C !! Well BTC is this heavenly place near CST where we have spent many a happy times specially with the rabadi which is served in the end along with the intermediate bottles of tak which are served in botteles of beer.

Chaitanya.Sangwai@patni.com

 SEriously ,I have concluded that I wont make any plans for family members henceforth. secondly, guys , I am very serious,think twice b4 u even think of getting married, after this weekend I have started wondering why do ppl get married. The only point 'FOR' marriage is that u get to give sm ,but believe u me you get a lot more pain in the a**. My kaku ,with her my sisters ,two of them,had come over this weekend to abhi's place (my cousin)
I went over to meet them. The plan was to take them out , b'bay darshan, in short. My kaku had heard abt crawford market, she wanted to visit. I have never been there.We went in search of that p[lace only to find that it is closed on sundays. next we went to fashion street, there were six of us, abhi and wife, kaku and sis's and myself. the ladies got busy with shopping. I and abhi went in search of sm wada-pav.I guess we took arnd 20 mins to get the wada-pavs. when we were back abhi got the lecture of his life frm his wife for being irresponsible and leaving the womenfolk alone. Thats not it, my bhabhi also refused to talk to him, eat anything etc . etc. from then on.

Abhi told me that this would continue for a day or two, I mean what a pain, what a royal pain!!! So the situation now is tempers are flared, everybody is maintaining a fragile silence, I want to laugh :-))
 
Then I get what I think is a very good idea, I tell abhi that we shd go to BTC for dinner, I tell him sm rabdi at BTC is just what 's needed to thaw the situation,. So we decide to go to BTC, there's a small problem though, I am not very sure how to reach there. I am fairly confident that we could find the 'Kalbadevi telephone exchange' But it seems i havent learnt much after so many yrs of reading Murphy's laws. We just dont seem to find that bloody exchange. To make matters worse the traffic is suffocating the crowd in Masjid isnt exactly picturesque. All this is making my kaku impatient and my bhabhi murderous.Abhi is scared and I feel for him. In the meanwhile the galli's in masjid are getting shadier and more crowded. Everytime i see a dirty crowded lane i think this is it but then every lane is the same there.
 
Finally we come to this lane where the womenfolk just refuse to enter, The lane is packed like a local train and this one is the BTC lane , i recognise. Finally after agomnising 40 mins., I find my voice and announce 'Welcome to BTC' I tell them to stay there and along with abhi go to reserve a table in the restaurant and find the restaurant closed for sunday.I burst out laughing, abhi wants to cry out loud. we desperately try to think of smthing to bail us out.

I call up bhabhi and tell her that the place is too crowded and it is best if we get a parcel and eat at home. we order a parcel.Abhi gets philosophical and says, this is what marriage is, I really feel for him. He tells me how life changes after marriage, i hate each one of that change. Marriage can be 'DATING GIVING WAY TO INTIMIDATING', its smthing to be done after sm serious analysis in terms of compatibility.
 
Here an interesting point for U BHALE. amidst all this abhi remembered U, BHALE, and wondered what will ur wife and ur marriage be like. So guys this is food for thought for all of us, Topic is good enuf for us to publish a Whitepaper. send in ur views.
 
I am reminded of that list which we had in one of our mails abt the kind of girl wanted,i think we shd preserve that b'coz to lead a happy married life that exactly is the kinda gal we need.
 
chaitanya.