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I don’t know if any of you have noticed it, and I speak here in the Indian context. Whenever a man is done with a call and his girlfriend/wife asks him who it had been on the phone, he replies shortly, “Koyi tha.” (‘Twas someone’). Almost all of them.
Now, when a woman gets a call, the boyfriend/husband rarely even have the good manners to wait for the call to get over to do the same. They butt in, with total lack of consideration while the conversation is still happening, impatient to know who it is on the other side. At the very least the best of them can be seen giving questioning looks expecting answers, but willing to wait and suffering for it. Those men who survive the ordeal without succumbing to apoplexy, spring into action as soon as the woman rings off. And, this is where the funny thing I noticed happens. ALL the woman, even those women who have been snubbed repeatedly by boyfriend/husband answer the queries civilly.
And yet they say women are the nosy ones. Oh yeah, tell it to the birds.
©Shail Mohan 2015
It’s the reverse here. Dad’s patient enough to wait, but mom’s curiosity sometimes gets the better of her. 🙂 I’m not sure what the future holds for me. Interesting microblog, Shail. 😀
Haha. One of the exceptions, eh? 🙂
And thank you 🙂
Ringing replies rile
At gender’s style
Queries met
With etiquette
But, with men, like a spile!
There you have it! 🙂
Very true !!!
It is happening all around us, isn’t it? 🙂
Yes. very irritating specially when you can hear part of the conversation and then when you ask who was that, we get monosyllabic answers like.. my friend.. i usually ask ” your friend has no name ? ” …:)
I do the eyebrow thing when my husband is on the phone!! 😛
Being curious is okay. But it is the difference in the pattern of replying that actually bothers me! 🙂
Hilarious double standard!
Isn’t it?! 🙂 I am wondering what would happen if the women started saying, “Koi tha!” 🙂
“Koi tha” – If R ever says that to me, I will show him. 😛 But I am lucky. He always answers properly. 😉
Now that’s more like the spirit I’d like to see 😀
This made me laugh! It is similar around the world I think and I confess, as a man, to being guilty as charged…
Aha! You too, eh? Tsk, tsk, tsk Ken! 😀 😀
Alas…yes 🙂
So funny. I haven’t experienced this, but I’m definitely the nosier one who asks. Or tries to figure it out based on his end of the conversation.
I guess many of us do the ‘figure it out based on his end of the conversation’ 😉
I so agree with you, Shail! But, what can we do?!! Men will be men!
I don’t know. May be women can also give a taste of their own medicine? “Koi tha!” 😉
But, I liked the ‘koi tha’! 🙂
I swear I have heard so many men say that, but so far not even a single woman have I heard do the same. 😮
I am going to do that from now on! *Wink! 🙂
Best of luck! 😀