In the one and a half years in Bangalore, I have realized this city is made for married couples. While, I don’t have anything against the married people, and got a lot of friends who are married, what bothers me about this city is they can’t see single people having a good time. Bangalore defies the famous saying of grass is always greener on the other side.. People here don’t see anything green about being single.. It's more like a draught ridden side where the singles live.
While I have been asked a million times “When are you getting married?”.. It used to be family and relatives asking this, which was OK and I could laugh it out.. But bangalore believes in asking the question to any random people they meet..
One day while waiting for the elevator in my apartment, an old south indian uncle came and stood next to me.. trying to be friendly I started some small talks.. In less than a minute the conversation lead to “Oh you should get married very soon.. Find a nice girl and get..” I didn’t wait for the statement to finish and ran out of the elevator. I really wanted to say.. Uncle!! I find nice girls all the time.. just that they don’t find me nice enough!!! Nice in bangalore means guy with a well paying IT job who happens to travel to the US/ UK/ Europe.. even Dilbert traveling to Elbonia is a nice boy!!
Extreme was when the question changed from “When are you getting married??” to “Why aren’t you married yet??”.. I have written down a response to this.. Actually some pictures of me with strippers in Pattaya happened to go viral.. After that every girl I approach on Shaadi.com, googles for my name and comes across those pictures.. I don’t think I can ever get married!! Definitely can’t get married to a ‘nice’ girl..
The concerns have grown beyond friends and family.. It's now the landlord, the security guards and even my maid concerned that I am not married.. I fired the cook and started cooking myself and the maid has been ever so concerned.. She speaks only tamil and kannada, so we have been communicating in keywords and sign language since more than a year now..
Maid: “Bhaiya.. Shaadi illa??”
Me: Huh??
Maid: “Chapati.. Sabzi.. Ladki...”
Me: Okay I got your point.. I don’t want to get married so that the girl would cook for me.. I can hire a cook to do that for me..
Maid: Hitting her palm on her forehead and making an expression of “Nothing can be done about this guy”
The funny part is, I hear similar stories from my friends who are married, but don’t have kids yet.. apparently Bangalore won’t let them be at peace till they have children.. I wonder bangalore chases people till they reach the grave!!
