Shut up amid the cackle.

You Know you are married when...

So you are married. Much to the relief of your parents and some three thousand well meaning society aunties who have been sniggering behind youor back since the time you turned twenty.
Slight hitch, though. Everyone knows it. You don't believe it. Not yet, anyway. So here comes some help!!!

Ten sure things which scream you are married:

1. When it rains without warning, you are more concerned about the clothes you left on the balcony railing to dry than the ones you are wearing.

2. You think summer is the best time of the year because your home doesn't smell damp during summer.

3. Chopping vegetables is your idea of relaxation after a hard day at work.

4. Seeing kids bawling at restaurants scares you to death wondering whether you will be next in the line of pacifying parents.

5. When it rains, you no longer can get out in your bright yellow raincoat because it is drying after office yesterday.

6. In conversation with friends, you casually drop the name of the latest south indian coconut based dish you cooked to impress your in-laws...and your friends are not impressed.

7. A good looking man / woman on the road no longer makes you drool, instead gives you a right / left reflex to check out your deal.

8. Especially the women: Elderly relatives from your parents' side (who know you sprint at the sight of sequins) give you sarees which look like sequins have staged an invasion on the scale of the Timurid on them.

9. Especially for males: When you drag yourself out of bed at an unearthly pre-dawn hour, it is not to catch the live telecast of the latest IPL or wimbledon final, but to fetch milk for the morning coffee.

10. Your romantic messages to your significant other are restricted to instructions for buying eggs / cheese / curd on your way home.

Ok, I know I said ten, but I cannot resist this one...

The lengthiest good night conversation you have goes along the lines of "Did you turn off the gas before leaving the kitchen?"

Well...I need to check up on the last myself...and look out for those warning signs!!!

posted by Anupama. @ 11:05 pm