My Marriage

It’s very a great feeling when you know your friends trust you. But it’s always more fun when you can utilize that trust and ride them through a never existing story. I have to confess to many of my colleagues and friends for exploiting their trust lately on a well framed stories with the help of some of you.  The story was about my marriage, when I had no plan of getting married.

Triggering

Day after marriage fixing of my brother, I went to my senior, Mahi at office to share my plan of leaves for the upcoming months. In the evening, Noman was there for usual chit-chat. To tell of Noman, him he can get married on any day after his elder brother’s marriage and he was so eager to get married as well. His brother was not finding a suitable alliance. Mahi loved to have some fun of him and announcement, “cj’s marriage is fixed”. Noman could not believe it. Why can’t I join the party?

Me:“I am getting married”

Noman: “What is your plan?”

Me: “My brother’s marriage is in Nov and Dec is month of lent for X’tians.”

Mahi: “So we can expect it by Jan”

Me: “Ya, but I don’t feel like marrying now.”

Then the discussion went on like that off topic.

Late evening, I was on chat with my friends. She was also at Kormangala and her office was near Maharaja’s hotel which was hardly 1km from my office. I was just checking the location on Google maps. As Noman and I usually leave together, he came to my desk and saw me checking for a hotel at 7pm. So he made up his part.

“Going for date, uhh??”.  

“Not yet, her office is here. Just checking the exact location”

“Where is she working?”

“Philips”

“If she is so near, why can’t you go and meet her for lunch?”

“It’s still in the initial days. And I am not sure of the marriage yet”

“How did that come up”

“It’s my daughter of dad’s friend. It came up like that.”

“So over a drink, ‘My son and your daughter getting married’”

“Not exactly”

So outline of the story is ready. But we need more stories before presenting to friends and more digestable stories as they know me last 7 years or so.

Broadcasting

Once you have the initial story, we have to spread it among your friends. Now I have to start the process of spreading it. I send a mail to “Seis amigos”, a mailing group for my close group.

Subject: 

I am getting nailed soon!!

Content:

Yeah sh*t happens!! And this tym, its likely to be worst. My dad's frnd want me to call him "papa" in recent future. Thalkalam chettandae ullathu kondu block chaythu erikuvannu.(I can block for the time being in the name of brother) bt soon it could happen. I am trying to avoid by all possible reason i could ever figure out but doesnt look like it will work .. Afterall njan allae, i wil find a fix ennu oru vishwasam. (Afterall it’s me and I will find a fix, that is my belief) 

Anyways her name is Ann Jacob, working in Philips at 80ft-road kormangala. 

We met once on last sunday for lunch. She is nice bt as u know i am not in marriageable age and she is even worse. 

further details after escaping from the trap 

That was enough. More questions and enquiries like photos, her backgrounds, her college etc came up.

Concreting

Phase 3 starts now. Now I had to make sure the things are more reliable. When you are framing a story it should be flawless. Next time when I came back from home, my ring-finger became an actual "ring finger". I reached office on the Monday. During the tea-break, the usual stories came up – I am getting married in  next couple of months and Noman’s marriage will take long time. I dint say much during the chat, but just raised my left hand and turned the ring at Noman's face. It completed the stories but I got congrats from Noman only and a more perplexed look from Mahi, who saw a sudden twist in story.

Someday along the week, Thanku was on GTalk and the same topic popped up. The discussion topic soon changed to Ann. I was least interested in marriage, and my mom cant say a “No” to him. He had a heart-attack couple of months back too. I can convince Thanku more than anyone with worst of arguments. Not different this time either. Ann can be a could friends but never more than that was my point.

Side-effects

We can never break Newton’s 3^rd law. When you are framing a rumour with you as the hero, there is always potential risk. It may kick you back. For me it happened during the last team outing. If front of elderly staffs, Noman said the same stories of my marriage. They had better logic than Noman, your brother’s marriage and your marriage cant be together. But they still congratulated me!!

If I still proceed with the rumour, I might get into deep trouble with reaching at wrong people. And I think I had more than fun in last 2 months or so. Afterall I am so happy to see how much people around me take me by my words.