The Morning's Episode

It was just so like him, banging on the door of the bathroom and yelling her to "Hurry Up", just when she was inside the bathroom.

She closed the tap, stood akimbo in the bathroom itself and yelled back, "What is the matter with you?If you are in so much of hurry to reach office, then you could have taken the bath first. Why are you banging now ? Donot ask me to hurry up like that. Do not you know that one cannot take her bath properly if anyone continuously bangs on the door like that." She was very angry on him suddenly.

There was silence on the other side. After a pause of one minute, he was heard again, this time more softly though, "Well then, but please do hurry up." He had a touch of guilt in his voice.

She did not say anything. Actually she was shampooing her hair. She knew that he was late for his office, but she could not compromise that with her hair's well being.

She did not take long though, despite her shampooing. As she came out, her hair wrapped in the towel, she immediately went to their bedroom, only to find her husband sitting cozily with a pillow on his lap, and reading the morning newspaper, with no signs of hurry in him.

She said quite audibly now, "Hey, what are you waiting for? Cannot you go and have your bath now?"

He did not react even a bit. He was not even angry. Instead, without looking up from the newspaper, he said "Well, what do these two words mean ? g-r-a-b and f-r-o-l-i-c?"

She was now preparing her breakfast, a glass of wheat milk. Once hearing him to ask such questions at such a odd time, she threateningly retorted back, "Would you go or not?".

He was cool and did not budge even a bit from his original position. He answered back, "Not until you tell me the meanings.". That was one of his innate childish nature.

Well, it was not her nature to fiddle with matters, she let him have his answers. Hearing which, he immediately got up to take his bath. Though before he was done, he had to ask for the towel. She handed him the old one, since the new one was wrapped around her hair and was wet. He cried back, "The new one ....., that one smells awful ...".

She was by now ready for the office. They were late today. They have one bathroom and their office time is same. So the bathroom becomes a daily issue in the mornings. But it was a bandh day, so they could afford to be a little bit late.

Though it was a bandh, but they did not have much problem to reach their respective offices. It was in the same sector.

They did not talk on the entire road. Except when the bus conductor had asked for their tickets, and he did not have the change. So he had to ask her to buy the tickets.

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Later on, after lunch, she was having another of those post lunch conversations, downstairs with her female colleagues. She was just telling them of what went on in the morning at her home. Her colleagues were so amused to hear her story and the entire episode felt so of much fun to tell them that her anger for him simply melted away. She now enjoyed every moment of her morning's episode with him.

And, at the end her story, they all had a hearty laugh over it.