So the man is mostly on the move these days.. traveling every fortnight while I'm home alone (with the girls)!
Every time that UTP travels, I am somehow restless till I hear from him that he reached his destination, that the flight was comfortable and the hotel room has that nice springy mattress you can sink into!
Yes I can see you men cringing at the thought and I know I really need to stop (s)mothering the man :P but honest! I do worry and wonder how he is doing and I will not stop doing that till I specifically hear from him that I need to get a life and should spare him the almost maternal fussing over!
So this time, I had my calculations in place that I should be hearing from him in some 10 hours.. but 10 hours went by.. another 10 and then another 10 and no mail, sms, call.. nothing..
By this time I was more pissed than worried, I knew it wasn't that he hadn't landed safely, it had more to do with he didn't think it necessary to inform folks back home that he was fine! I mean what kind of irresponsible schmucks do that!
I gritted my teeth,went about the day, slept through the night and a whole day after he was due to land sat down to write an email.. It turned out just the right mix of annoyance, humor, sarcasm and of course my underlying concern for him.. I sat back and admired the masterpiece.. and smugly hit the send button!
here's how it went..
Hey hubby,
Hope you will be reading this mail in a few hours and that you did indeed reach Seoul safe and sound and lucky for you, me and the kids, the plane didn't khudanakhwasta crash on the way... none of us hope to be widowed orphaned or dead anytime soon you see :P
I know there can be so many things getting in the way of sending out that critical "I landed safely" message - sleep, tiredness, hunger, internetlessness, fifa fever blah blah but it would still be nice to know I'm married to a responsible considerate guy who sends out that 3 word SMS so I can breathe and sleep in peace.
Yes, yes, love you too!
Biwi.
P.S. If I don't hear from you on this then I'll know its time to really panic!
I thought my mail was funny but he got back with an even funnier reply!! I couldn't decide if I was more relieved that he is safe or furious for his thinking its ok to not let me know he is fine or laugh myself silly over the way his mind works.. he suggested I could've checked the flight status online to ensure that it DID land or watched the evening news to see that there was indeed no news about an emirates plane crash (taubaaa.. god forbid!) he apparently had no way to reach me because cellular roaming did not work out there and internet and phone calls were awfully expensive at the hotel! grr!
Itnay bayizzat tou kaheen nahi huay...I touch newer milestones every place I go...
No free internet at hotel plus roaming bhee nahi chalti for etisalat....for the phone...so the only way I could have told was making a trunk call for Mr. Pohcheevyo... which I decided against... Socha biwi emirates.com par jaakay dekh lay gee kay plane land hogaya hay and phir news khol kay confirm kay emirates ka koi jahaaz crash nahi hua would confirm...kay Mein Pohcheevyo...
(you might need to catch up on one of UTP's earlier post if you didn't get the Mr Pohcheevyo funda)
but seriously.. WHERE does he get these ideas from :|
*bangs head*
..am I being overly anxious or is he the overly casual one here?!
7 comments:
haha, brill post mayg!
he's safe, so chill.
though i feel you - i'd have been just like you freaking out and stuff. drill it into his when he comes home next time that even if the internet is a little expensive, it's worth the cost of knowing that you'll rest easy knowing he's safe and sound...
You aren't over anxious... I see where you're coming from...
I have made it mandatory for my partner to inform me about her well being every time she drives from 1 place to another (within same city, even if its 2 streets away)
She thinks I am being over protective... Secret is I don't trust her driving ;-)
i totally get where you're coming from!
i am like you, as well. i DO check online that his flight's landed... and whether he has free internet.
but then i want to hear from him that all is well. yeah, kinda psycho ;)
but the thing is, when I travel, there's role reversal. HE is hyper about me not calling and i behave like him. we both know. but neither of us can help it, i guess!
what to do! :D
p.s.: both ur mails were hilarious! :D
"Socha biwi emirates.com par jaakay dekh lay gee kay plane land hogaya hay and phir news khol kay confirm kay emirates ka koi jahaaz crash nahi hua would confirm."
Crash is last thing that could happen to someone. Besides it there are other millions issues that could happen to anyone.
Re: No ""free"" internet at hotel
UTP showed the true side of a Memon... :)
Yaar, app kamatay kis kay liya hooo...
And when someone travel for office work, he/she also receive TA/DA which is usually much higher than your normal salary.
--Sarfaraz
hahaha... this is SO ada being ada.
I could acctually imagien ada saying all that to u. And that too koi mazzaak ki baat nai. hahhaa...Yahan aap pareyshan wahan ada being ada.
Silly u guys.
Love u!
I'm not married, but similar scenes are often enacted between my mother and my brother or I.
:D
Yeah yeah, UTP is funny and all that but on this one I am with you (hope he is reading this :D:D) Whatever it might have cost to send an email, he should have done it. Sometimes it would help if he could imagine himself in YOUR shoes.
Plus I don't think it was the money - the man plain forgot! And came back with the funny (NOT!) reply to hide that fact :)
Hugs MayG.
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