Aah, the sweet irony of it all.
A typical conversation between me and an office colleague on a friday evening.
He : “Lets go for a smoke, yaar”.
Me : “I dont smoke”.
He : “You have succeeded in quitting, is it ? I have been trying for years”.
Me : “I have never smoked, yaar”.
He ( with a raised eyebrow ) : “Maybe you have an allergy or something ? Anyway, chal lets go for a beer.”
Me : “I dont drink, yaar”.
He : “Hey, Beer is not alocohol!”.
Me : “Maybe, Anyway I dont drink it either”.
He : “Okaay, chal lets go to a disco and listen to some hard rock, maan”.
Me ( with a slight embarrassed smile ) : “I dont go to discos and as for music, I prefer Jagjit Singh”.
My friend takes a long hard look at me and gives me a look normally reserved for psycopaths.
Aah, the sweet irony of it all.
Fun, If you are a young bachelor in bangalore, has been predefined. If you dont do any of the above, It is automatically assumed that your life is boring.
People are not willing to admit that reading a book while listening to a few choice ghazals on a friday evening might be fun for atleast a few like me.
The in crowd has a few names for people like me : Nerd, Geek, Loser, Dweeb etc etc.
I remember telling my friend Baiju ( who is more or less like me in his tastes ) that something might have gone wrong in Brahma's Lab. We were supposed to have been born 30-40 years earlier rather than now.
It is a lot of fun to be labelled old fashioned at 24 :-)