Lounge outing
Am. has gone out for around 20 days and we are still living in the officers' mess. Next to my room is a Captain with her 9 month son and nowadays her husband has joined her while he is on leave, he is in the navy. They are both my husband's junior and yesterday while chit chatting with them, they asked me to join them in an outing. Since I have been wanting to see the city, I agreed. We all went along with the Captain's colleague. First we went to this viewing point near some hospital where you could see the whole city and mountains all around. It was lovely. I enjoyed a breezer with them and then we headed back to the mess, where the two girls changed into trendy minis and took me out to a lounge.
It had been agreed between the couple that the husband would mind the baby in the lounge, while she would drink. And drink she did! Music blared loudly, while she kept getting drunk and shouted for a change of song. She and her colleague smoked a pack of Goldflakes and kept drinking vodka with lime juice and mountain dew. I took a pepsi (I don't drink, at most its a breezer for me) and helped myself to some veg snacks. By chance some of her juniors were there, some 7-8 guys who also joined in. I kept aloof, reading an ebook on my mobile. The mother got really drunk to the extent she was rolling about on the sofa and couldn't walk straight. The baby was crying bitterly and the father could not quieten him. Though he tried many times to stop his wife from drinking, she kept insisting and went for refill and refill. The husband kept saying he does not know why he married her, am not sure if it was a joke or not, since they have been together 7 years.
Anyways, finally I followed her husband as he took the wailing baby outside and asked him if there was some way I could go home, it was not even 9pm then but I was very embarrassed, people had been staring at our group and I realized quite painfully that I had been introduced to all those juniors by my husband's post and gossip travels very fast in the army. And his post is such that everyone knows him.
Anyways, the father helped me into the car, apologizing profusely and asking me for ten minutes to get both the girls (I had said I can take an autorickshaw but he wouldn't hear of it) and left the baby with me, who kept wailing like anything. A little later the mother joined me in the back seat and pulled up her shirt to feed the child, outside were men who were staring. I just didn't know what to do. And yes I was fed up. The mother had lost her senses, she kept pushing her breasts in the child's mouth, making obscene comments about her love life. Some time later her friend and husband joined us. The husband took the baby and drive the car but the baby kept howling really badly, and we stopped the car a few times. The mother kept shouting abuses at her husband (the choiciest of them!), saying he made her drunk and told her to drink and that he would kill the child because he could not stop its crying. She also wanted to throw up but luckily held up till we reached the mess, where she started running around and shouting. I moved immediately towards my room and went in. Some time later the husband dropped by to profusely apologize.
I did not judge her, not then and not now. All I wanted was to get away and thats it, rest its her life. I just felt, that maybe a girl barely 25 who enjoys drinking, suddenly becomes a mum after marriage, is it that bad she let lose one day? They kept insisting it was a one time incident and she never drinks like this. Its difficult bringing up a child, I agree and maybe more difficult for a young woman who likes to party! I don't think she was really wrong, I can understand, sometimes you do want to forget everything, all responsibilities. Am not sure if thats what prompted her, but its something I can empathize with. I wanted to get away simply because I didn't want rumors flying about me because of my husband's post, I have certain social responsibility towards him too and I am conscious of that fact.
It had been agreed between the couple that the husband would mind the baby in the lounge, while she would drink. And drink she did! Music blared loudly, while she kept getting drunk and shouted for a change of song. She and her colleague smoked a pack of Goldflakes and kept drinking vodka with lime juice and mountain dew. I took a pepsi (I don't drink, at most its a breezer for me) and helped myself to some veg snacks. By chance some of her juniors were there, some 7-8 guys who also joined in. I kept aloof, reading an ebook on my mobile. The mother got really drunk to the extent she was rolling about on the sofa and couldn't walk straight. The baby was crying bitterly and the father could not quieten him. Though he tried many times to stop his wife from drinking, she kept insisting and went for refill and refill. The husband kept saying he does not know why he married her, am not sure if it was a joke or not, since they have been together 7 years.
Anyways, finally I followed her husband as he took the wailing baby outside and asked him if there was some way I could go home, it was not even 9pm then but I was very embarrassed, people had been staring at our group and I realized quite painfully that I had been introduced to all those juniors by my husband's post and gossip travels very fast in the army. And his post is such that everyone knows him.
Anyways, the father helped me into the car, apologizing profusely and asking me for ten minutes to get both the girls (I had said I can take an autorickshaw but he wouldn't hear of it) and left the baby with me, who kept wailing like anything. A little later the mother joined me in the back seat and pulled up her shirt to feed the child, outside were men who were staring. I just didn't know what to do. And yes I was fed up. The mother had lost her senses, she kept pushing her breasts in the child's mouth, making obscene comments about her love life. Some time later her friend and husband joined us. The husband took the baby and drive the car but the baby kept howling really badly, and we stopped the car a few times. The mother kept shouting abuses at her husband (the choiciest of them!), saying he made her drunk and told her to drink and that he would kill the child because he could not stop its crying. She also wanted to throw up but luckily held up till we reached the mess, where she started running around and shouting. I moved immediately towards my room and went in. Some time later the husband dropped by to profusely apologize.
I did not judge her, not then and not now. All I wanted was to get away and thats it, rest its her life. I just felt, that maybe a girl barely 25 who enjoys drinking, suddenly becomes a mum after marriage, is it that bad she let lose one day? They kept insisting it was a one time incident and she never drinks like this. Its difficult bringing up a child, I agree and maybe more difficult for a young woman who likes to party! I don't think she was really wrong, I can understand, sometimes you do want to forget everything, all responsibilities. Am not sure if thats what prompted her, but its something I can empathize with. I wanted to get away simply because I didn't want rumors flying about me because of my husband's post, I have certain social responsibility towards him too and I am conscious of that fact.