Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Overheard

“Walk with your head bowed”
“Sleep with your legs together”
“Don’t leave your hair loose. Tie it”
“You really should start wearing long skirts now. You’re a big girl”
“No, no, you cannot cut your hair. I don’t care what your friends do”
“It’s dark now. You can’t go out alone.”
“If the man touched you, just ignore it. You cannot be reacting to everything, you know”
“Shh…don’t tell your father about it. He’ll say you invited it upon yourself”
“What’s wrong with this boy? Why won’t you marry him?”
“What do you mean you don’t like him? If I had spoken like that to my dad…”
“Let the men eat first”
“Women are born to suffer”
“If you can’t bear this pain, how are you going to have babies?”
“So, when are you going to make us grandparents?”
“My God, you look so much like your mother!”

15 comments:

PVS said...

hahaha...have heard it all :)

ammani said...
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Anonymous said...

Ammani,
You are an amazing writer. Very emotional stuff.

ammani said...

PVS, ME, Uma, Dogmatix,
Let me have your lists, please.
Thank you.

Anonymous said...

Listened to it all and esplly the last line of this post..so used to hearing it quite often==>>"My God, you look so much like your mother!”"..nice stuff...

AF said...

Perfect Ammani!!!... Keep writing!!

Anonymous said...

Looks like dialogues from a Tamil Serial

Chakra said...

hav overheard them all.. :)

Suguna said...

Yeah
Nice read. I think times are slowly changing.

The Last Blogger said...

Have heard it enough number of times to vouch for every one of them. If I wasnt in the firing line, it was one of my friends or cousins.
Somethings never change, and thanks for reminding us about them.

Anonymous said...

Don't argue with amma
ethithu pesathey
iratarathukku munanidi thirumbi vaaaa. even if i left home at six
Great ammani ...first time at your blog
wonderful
Jyotsna

Houseowner said...

ammani,

how about 'molaichu munu ela vidualai... as a prefix to most of the above!? :)

would you like to read a short story, not a quickie, but decently short? then, can i invite you to my blog? :)

cheers!
ramya

Shammi said...

Very, very evocative post! Sounds so familiar... I guess at one point or another, we've all heard some or all of those statements :)

Anonymous said...

Mannn...awesome!!!!

Another one - un vayasula ennaku 2 kozandainga ayachu.

Anonymous said...

heard them, over and over and over and over again....

Ab ke jo kiye ho datta, aisa, phir na kijiyo, agle janam mein datta, bitiya na kijiyo....