More Mahesh
Mahesh, my buddy, has developed this new [and slightly annoying] habit of disconnecting the phone and hanging up when I'm talking to him. Every time I call him, he asks me if he can disconnect and call me back immediately and I refuse every time. He hangs up anyway and I call him back.
Today, it was different. I was determined not to call him back just to teach him a lesson. But I'd given him my cell phone number and he kept calling me on my cell phone, asking if he could disconnect, actually disconnecting and then calling me back... and so the cycle repeated itself several times over.
One particular time:
Danu: Mahesh, don't keep disconnecting and calling me back. You're wasting a lot of money.
Mahesh: What?
Danu: Yes, every call costs some money, so you are wasting money.
Mahesh: How much money?
Danu: A lot. Very much.
Mahesh: I'll disconnect and then you'll call me back?
Danu: No, Mahesh, no! See, you have a choice: you can either be a good boy and not disconnect or you can be a bad, horrible boy and disconnect. Are you a good boy or a bad boy?
[Short pause]
Mahesh: Daniyal...
*Click* The phone goes, "Beep beep beep" in my ear. Mahesh hung up. Such a defiant child! Even my best strategy of giving him a "moral" choice is beginning to get old and he's seeing right through it.
In other news, I watched A Touch of Pink yesterday and again today. It's a nice movie, but Abeer just doesn't get it. It's about this Isma'ili Muslim man, Aleem [or alternatively, Alim] living in London with his (cute) boyfriend Giles.. and his mother shows up. The two lovers desperately try to go back into the closet for Aleem's mother but Aleem eventually tells her and she goes back to Toronto in a fit of anger. It was a pretty movie, I liked Aleem's character a lot - poor thing, torn up between family and love. Though, the Indian characters had really fucked up accents. They couldn't say Muslim names properly.. for example, Khalid was 'Ka-leed'.
In yet other news, I'm not single anymore.
Today, it was different. I was determined not to call him back just to teach him a lesson. But I'd given him my cell phone number and he kept calling me on my cell phone, asking if he could disconnect, actually disconnecting and then calling me back... and so the cycle repeated itself several times over.
One particular time:
Danu: Mahesh, don't keep disconnecting and calling me back. You're wasting a lot of money.
Mahesh: What?
Danu: Yes, every call costs some money, so you are wasting money.
Mahesh: How much money?
Danu: A lot. Very much.
Mahesh: I'll disconnect and then you'll call me back?
Danu: No, Mahesh, no! See, you have a choice: you can either be a good boy and not disconnect or you can be a bad, horrible boy and disconnect. Are you a good boy or a bad boy?
[Short pause]
Mahesh: Daniyal...
*Click* The phone goes, "Beep beep beep" in my ear. Mahesh hung up. Such a defiant child! Even my best strategy of giving him a "moral" choice is beginning to get old and he's seeing right through it.
In other news, I watched A Touch of Pink yesterday and again today. It's a nice movie, but Abeer just doesn't get it. It's about this Isma'ili Muslim man, Aleem [or alternatively, Alim] living in London with his (cute) boyfriend Giles.. and his mother shows up. The two lovers desperately try to go back into the closet for Aleem's mother but Aleem eventually tells her and she goes back to Toronto in a fit of anger. It was a pretty movie, I liked Aleem's character a lot - poor thing, torn up between family and love. Though, the Indian characters had really fucked up accents. They couldn't say Muslim names properly.. for example, Khalid was 'Ka-leed'.
In yet other news, I'm not single anymore.