Every morning my husband & I drive to the nearby park (which I consider a "Walker's Paradise" in Chennai), finish our walk and exercises & drive back home.When one of my friends came to hear of it last year, she expressed her desire to accompany us & I readily agreed on the condition that she should be ready by exactly 6 in the morning. She is on the heavier side and her grievance was that she was unable to reduce inspite of all the house work she did.She was in awe of me since she thought that my not so slim figure was the result of my daily walk and exercise. (She was unaware of the "gene"factor and I let it be).
Thus started my friend's morning walk and rise in my BP. She would wait for us at 6 and return with us around 7.15 or so.She was very punctual in the beginning but after a while she started coming late. We used to wait for her much to the irritation of my husband who would have already driven to the gate to wait there for us to come.So one day I told her that she must keep up the time since I had to be back at 7.15 to make breakfast for my mother-in-law. Then started the daily ordeal. She would call me at odd hours at night after 10 pm to find out if we will be going for walk the next day. She was always confused for no reason. I had already told her that on days when I wouldn't go, I would inform her and she could walk inside our building complex. But she never seemed to understand. Early morning at five, she would ring up sometimes to say that she was not coming even though I had already told her that we would leave if she was not to be seen in the mornings. This led to my switching off my mobile phone & disconnecting my land line (very early morning calls naturally worry the elders in the house and they wake up so early much to my annoyance and I have to answer all their queries). My husband was vexed with all these and he would tell me that it was difficult to keep up time when someone else joined for the walk unless she was disciplined like us. Some times she would be on time at 6 and I would be late by just two or three minutes. And she would have the cheek to ask me why I was late. I would be boiling with rage but then would control my anger. We are obliging her and she is asking me why I am late?
When someone joked why she had not yet become slim like Kareena Kapoor, she pointed towards me as though I was her trainer and responsible for her weight reduction. My husband would laugh & remark "Why are you upset because of her? You are helping her and she should be obliged to you". Now she is quite disappointed to know that my husband's cataract surgery is due in a few days and after that we will not be going for walk for about a month. "What will you do?" she asked. "Walk inside the complex" I said. "What time?"she asked. I said "Any time convenient to me. You carry on." She was disappointed! How I have put myself in a situation where I have to be answerable to her! (But still she is a good friend. So the ordeal still continues).
Hello, Can someone tell me who is taking whom for a walk !!
