Pearls of Sarcasm

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"Tap on my window, knock on my door - I want to make you feel beautiful" - so sang the Maroon 5 in their "Beauty Queen of only eighteen..." This was so absorbing a tune for me that I put the verses in my orkut update. What did I get as a response from one of my friends?

"Tap on your window, knock on your door, pat on your back and bang on your head..!!"

Can things get any more sarcastic than this? I wonder..!!

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Last weekend, when I was returning from my friend's place in Scranton, I missed my mobile charger at Scranton. Wrote a mail to people stating that my charger is @ Scranton, PA while my mobile is with me @ Shelton,CT. A friend of mine who got my message wrote "Ravi, you should not be doing this. You should have gone to Dallas in Texas, left your mobile there. Then, you could have written a nice and neat blog titled Charger @ Scranton, PA, Mobile @ Dallas,TX, Me @ Shelton - struggles of the separated trio"

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While shopping for items at a grocery store, I picked up a few boxes of sweets - all soaked with ghee and made with pure milk. My friend's sense of sarcasm couldn't stop him from asking - "Why aren't you taking more of these malnourishment tonics?" He was obviously referring to the fact that we are a bit overbuilt and shouldn't ideally be feasting on sweets.

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I will post more such pearls of sarcasm down the line.

Between You & Me

One of my acquaintances narrated this incident to me. When he had come over to the US for the first time and went to an eatery outlet in one of the rest areas along the expressways, he met with a rather very fast spoken version of "For here or to go?". And he has responded rather cooly "To eat" :)

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When I was hit by a car a few days back, one of friends (no, not that he isn't a serious person!), asked me in a lighter vein, "Is the car and the occupants of the car safe after hitting you?"

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Sometimes, I find the amount of precaution that is being put in place on roads here to be really commendable. But what I do wonder is this - whenever there is a "do-no-enter" board on some way, there would also be a "Wrong Way" board beside it. And the same set of boards would have been placed repeatedly for every 30 to 40 feet or so until the end of the road..!! Is that for purposes of calculating the fine/damages for violators? I wonder..!!

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I inadvertently laid hands on the recipe book maintained by one of my friends. And what do you think I find under the heading "Aloo Fry"? Just two sentences - "Put Oil. Put Aloo. Let them fry"..! Simplicity beyond imagination - I am sure you would agree!

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