I have also had many desi friends who are girls asking me to grow up. Actually the reason I am writing this blog is a series of incidents which happened this weekend. My friend threw a Bday party invited all the freshers girls. :) I attended the party with great enthu, even offered to help him organize the party. I was fancying my chances with this tamil iyer girl who had come to our insti. Well desi grad girls are much of rarer specimen, given the fact it was a tamil iyer girl, I was jumping with joy as if I had found a kryptonite. I managed to strike a conversation with her and when i had learnt that she is from Bangalore, i tried to use my limited knowledge of the city. The only places i knew well were MG Road, Brigade Road and of course "Pub World" and "NASA", where I was always dragged into, by my friends so that i can drive them home after they are totally drunk.
Then we both moved to some corner of the room, I was totally putting kadalai :). My friend was frustrated on seeing this, as it turned out she was the most good looking and also the only hot girl among the freshers. He came to me said "Ab Saale, Kuch help karne wala ya nahin? Get the drinks out of the fridge and leave it on the dining table.". I was smarter than him, and asked the girl to join me in helping the drinks out of fridge. So we got the drinks out and by then Pizza had come, so I had to pick it up and set it on the table. She asked me to get the veggie pizza for her and said she will get the drinks. I decided to pick the Veggie pizza for myself too, even thought the meat lovers pizza was begging to be picked and I went back to the same spot we were talking before, since she was already there.
Only on reaching there i saw she had two Bud cans in her hand and she handed me one. With the french girl incident still fresh in my memory, I didnt know what to do. I told her I dont drink, she laughed at my face and said "Dont be a baby. It is just a BUD." I realized, I am loosing ground here. Just then to make matters worse my friend scooped in and took the can, and said " I have been trying to help him to grow up for the last 4 years, he just wouldnt listen. If you like BEER, i have some Guiness have you tried it before?". She said "No. I would love to." and walked away with him.
I was cursing myself and thinking of another lost oppurtunity. So whats wrong if i dont drink? I dont drink because i dont want to. People who drink dont like teetotallers, they want to get rid of that race. It is used to stigma when people found out you drink alcohol, but these days, it is considered wierd even among desis forget the firangis, if you dont drink. After some soul searching, I came up with this idea, I have decided to say " I had some drinking problems. So I gave up drinking." . Atleast I hope this will prevent any embarrasments in future. Should test this one out in future.
Naattamiyin Theerpu: "Komanam kattra oorula, vetti katravan muttalu."
