Author : Naval Langa
I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me. - Julia Roberts
During married life we have to do a score of attempts to have a peaceful life. In fact the Marriage is an attempt to solve problems that a man wouldn’t have had in the first place; if he would have stayed single !!
To be very frank, I was passing through a very bad time, before my marriage. Then a woman of strong will and prudent administration of household came in my life. She stood with me like a rock until we tamed the storm and finally defeated the same. The woman is my wife.
There is nothing more blissful in one's life than the co-operation received from his or her spouse. But you know, everything has a price. Higher the gain: higher the price !!
My life partner, my wife, remains always alert in cutting the extra costs. Last year, after finding herself turning from fat to fatter, she was worrying much. I still do not understand why the innocent fat gathering around their waists, the hands, legs, and et cetera bother the women so much. But it bothered my wife.
The days came when she had to use soap for getting her golden bangles off. Cost-conscious is she; so for cutting the cost of the soap, she had resolved to have a new pair of the golden bangles. You know, the married life is not costly at all.
She is very proud of her cost-cutting virtue. One more example would be a sufficient proof. Last month one of my lower teeth had revolted and had decided to go out of my mouth. Hence it had started making its presence painful like a naughty peon in an office. I had to go to a dentist for removing and fixing a tooth.
She was with me like the shadow of a big tree.
As the dentist took a fork in his hand, I feared that he would make my mouth-opening wider than the God had designed for me. Before proceeding further he said, “It would cost Rs. 5000.”
I tried to say something. But the dentists are incapable of asking questions that can be replied in yes or no answer. So I was seized by the confused silence.
Before I speak anything my wife asked him, “Can’t you make the bill reasonable?”
“Yes, ma’am. I can fix three teeth in just Rs. 10,000,” the dentist was a good salesman, too. The dentist is a person before whom the greatest and the strongest of the men lose teeth.
Resultantly I have to lose extra two teeth. But she was pleased, as she had managed to snatch a prudent deal from a hard professional like a dentist. I think this story provides a fit case for a script of a Bollywood film.
I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places. -- A Quote.
