Saturday, June 23, 2012

Short Story: Iron wala

Rekha had made plans to lock up the kitchen that Sunday and give a break to her MIL by deciding to eat out for lunch..She woke up a little early than usual to let her MIL know that they  need not cook that day. While she was doing her exercise, the door bell rang. She waited for a few minutes as she knew her MIl would answer the call. When the bell rang the second time, she stopped her suryanamaskar in the middle and proceeded toward the door while she heard the following conversation. that her MIL informing the iron wala that both the husband and wife are still sleeping and asking him to come over sometime later. When the laundry man asked for the second time if Rekha was at home and if Rekha has kept aside clothes to be given for pressing, the MIL replied back telling Rekha was asleep and wouldn't wake up any sooner..This upset Rekha and she cancelled her lunch plans for the day. For quite some time she was disturbed by what would have been the need for her MIL to announce to the world that she was a later riser!! Phew! She did not get an answer and went about ignoring the incident and going about her day from noon onwards!

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