Tuesday, June 2, 2009

The Smug Princess

Mum is out of town, so the responsibility of carrying out chores, falls on my fragile shoulders. Now usually, i do not help around that much.. if you ask me, i most surely do!! but it goes a bit unnoticed as i am oh- so- lazy.. so obviously, you guys can imagine my smug expressions and my happiness for doing everything that i was asked to do.

Its lunch time and I'm busy making the salad. I take out a cucumber from the fridge , wash it and am half way through peeling it when i realize that probably its rotten, its all white n not the usual light green n i don't see any seeds either. Its better to get a second opinion, so i show it to ma brothers who say, "yup its not right so throw it away."
During the lunch time..


elder bro: yaar koi kheera nai ha? ( isn't there any cucumber left)

me: hain tuo shai lakin saree kharab hain. ( there are, but all of them are rotten)

elder bro: achaa (ok)

me : yup (i go into the kitchen and bring back the bag containing all the cucumbers) see ..

younger bro{ finally lifts his lazy head from his plate, goes into a momentary shocks, gives me a peculiar smile and exclaims in a laughter- tinged voice}: mere akalmand behn ya sub kheera nahin hain ya torian hain!!! (ma genius sister these are not cucumbers, these are "torian"... i don't know the English word for it but its a very common vegetable belonging to the pumpkin family)

the laughter- tinged voice turns into very loud howls of laughter with my elder bro and me also joining in.. so much so for all the smugness and happiness..

p.s:in case you wanted to know, we did manage to have some cucumbers.. well i couldn't find them but kudos to my younger bro who did manage to fish one from the depths of the deep freezer.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

hahahaha you dont know the difference b/w a cucumber and torian? !!!! height of blindness i say :p

lost in rome said...

i do okay!!!! bt these torian amazingly did look like cucumbers!!! lol

man i shud hav taken a picture n posted it as well..damn..

mubi said...

lol idont believe you..i know how many times u go into the kitchen ok :p thank your bro, hes the sensible one around

lost in rome said...

jee nai jee... lol mai jatii hoon kitchen ma.. like i said the torian did look a bit too much like the kheera

m.h.a said...

Damn, a cucumber is as different from a tori as a football is from an octopus, how could you go wrong? Waisay that kinda shows you dont do much stuff around the house :p :p

lost in rome said...

@ mha
like i said the torian did look like the cucumbers *sigh* oh n welcom to the blog.

m.h.a said...

They seriously dont! I'm a guy and even then i know the difference. And thanx, waisay i'm a late visitor i know.

Anonymous said...

lost, LOL you know i m thinking right? ;)

mha, come on now dotn show off if u know the difference :p we know you do a lot of work in the kitchen :p

lost in rome said...

@ moby
yes LOL i KNOWW what u r thinking!!!!

@ mha
well thats really great...guess what i know too!!