We are way past the 'pick up line' age - and so we don't hear many strange things being said around us. Unlike when we were were in college or even grad school when we heard the weirdest things said around us -- when the moment was awkward and 'the boy' should have just asked 'the girl' out.
Our current favorite movie to watch over and over again is 3 Idiots. Mainly because it is copied on the hard drive because the kids scratched up the CD. So every time Suresh and I are bored (which is rarely since the kids are normally driving us nuts) or just need a laugh (which is all the time) we will turn on the movie.
Favorite scenes for Suresh and me are Chatur's speech or Aamir Khan giving the watch 'demo'. We were watching a little past all this one day to where Aamir Khan tells the girl that her mother must have been really pretty and Suresh laughs
Suresh:' That's a nice pick up line!'
Me:' Yea - its better than yours'
Suresh: 'What!'
Me: 'Oh Please!'
A little story from a long time ago or in the Hindi cinema it would be called a FLASHBACK!
It was the graduate student orientation at Virginia Commonwealth University in the year 2000. As usual the Indian students were clustered together and hanging out solely together. The boys all together and the girls all together. (I still cannot get over how we still sit only in separate sexes - almost like men and women cannot sit in the same room and have a conversation - I will save this for another blog!)
And yet all together! We found a few benches and sat down. I was with my roommates and happened to sit right across from Suresh who was trying to eat a burger and definitely not enjoying it. He looks up
Suresh : 'You are a Christian ?'
Me: 'Yea - how did you know ?'
Suresh: 'Nametag'
Me: 'Oh - yea George!'
Suresh : 'You know where you are going to church tomorrow'
ALERT ALERT ALERT --- major pick up line alert!
Back to the present- I look at Isaac
Me: 'You will you not be asking any girls to church!'
Isaac whose mouth is stuffed with chappattis and whatever other vegetables I could throw in - nods and moves his attention back to his documentary on Dolphins.
Our current favorite movie to watch over and over again is 3 Idiots. Mainly because it is copied on the hard drive because the kids scratched up the CD. So every time Suresh and I are bored (which is rarely since the kids are normally driving us nuts) or just need a laugh (which is all the time) we will turn on the movie.
Favorite scenes for Suresh and me are Chatur's speech or Aamir Khan giving the watch 'demo'. We were watching a little past all this one day to where Aamir Khan tells the girl that her mother must have been really pretty and Suresh laughs
Suresh:' That's a nice pick up line!'
Me:' Yea - its better than yours'
Suresh: 'What!'
Me: 'Oh Please!'
A little story from a long time ago or in the Hindi cinema it would be called a FLASHBACK!
It was the graduate student orientation at Virginia Commonwealth University in the year 2000. As usual the Indian students were clustered together and hanging out solely together. The boys all together and the girls all together. (I still cannot get over how we still sit only in separate sexes - almost like men and women cannot sit in the same room and have a conversation - I will save this for another blog!)
And yet all together! We found a few benches and sat down. I was with my roommates and happened to sit right across from Suresh who was trying to eat a burger and definitely not enjoying it. He looks up
Suresh : 'You are a Christian ?'
Me: 'Yea - how did you know ?'
Suresh: 'Nametag'
Me: 'Oh - yea George!'
Suresh : 'You know where you are going to church tomorrow'
ALERT ALERT ALERT --- major pick up line alert!
Back to the present- I look at Isaac
Me: 'You will you not be asking any girls to church!'
Isaac whose mouth is stuffed with chappattis and whatever other vegetables I could throw in - nods and moves his attention back to his documentary on Dolphins.
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