When Pammi Aunty, Percy Jackson and Rann Utsav Worked Their Magic!
Hi… I am Tarun. I got your number from my mom, who got it from Pammi aunty, who got it from your mom. How weird is this!
This is really super weird! Ahana here. I am glad we are in the same boat! Who in this age goes for arranged marriages, that too referred by Pammi aunty?? I guess your mom went after you with a vengeance to contact me.
I know, right? Pammi aunty made me save your number right in front of her. My mom was waiting till I started typing the first message. She left after she heard the ‘sent’ ping. If it were up to her, she would have read it too. Talk about overbearing moms! I am a 33-year old doctor, for God’s sake! I shouldn’t be scared about my mother anymore.
You are a doctor!!?? (laughing emoji)
Okayyy… what is funny about it?
Look at me!
(Photo downloads)
You look like Thalia from the Percy Jackson book-series – spiky hair, nose-ring. Only the blue-eyes are missing.
Wait… you are a Percy Jackson fan? Books or the series?
Will you hate me if I say – both? I loved the books and I found the series fascinating. One of the few instances when a movie/series did justice to the original book.
I am a fan too! of both, I must say. And yes, Thalia was the inspiration for my look.
Awesome.
Well, we seem to have exhausted our quota of similarities! And I guess we tried to know each other enough to satisfy our parents. It was great talking to you! Got to catch an early flight tomorrow. Visiting Rann Utsav this year! Anyways, all the best to you, doc!
Talk about coincidence! I am visiting Rann Utsav too, that too tomorrow! Let me guess, AI flight, dep at 07.05? I am travelling in that flight.
This is just crazy. I too am travelling in the same flight. I have opted for 3N/4D package.
Same here! What’s happening?
I know! So do you travel a lot?
Not as much as I would like to. But I ensure to take one trip every year. What about you?
I also travel as much as possible but given my job profile, I get to travel only once in a year.
My mom said you are an IT professional.
I am. I love it. There is a certain kind of pleasure in designing apps that make work easier for many.
Great. I believe that IT professionals are super cool and logical.
And doctors aren’t? You guys take the cake when it comes to being logical, man!
It’s a tough job, trying to think logically when the trauma and pain surrounding you want to make you react emotionally.
Well-said! I guess we can meet tomorrow then? Oh no!
Let me guess… your family is coming too!? (laughing emoji)
(The conversation continued until the wee hours of the morning, neither of them ‘interested’ in arranged marriages, yet unwilling to end their conversation).