Relationship Hijack And Banter

I posted to that greedy MIL thread something similar before seeing this !!

This happens a lot to NRI's.

But the NRI's must remember what a grim lot it is to be here with all the pesky problems of life, and relatives. Some far away golden goose* is laying eggs for us, and it is a thing to protect, sustain and occasionally even brag about.

*GOOSE or GEESE - "A foolish or ignorant person is called a goose because of the alleged stupidity of this bird." "Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable" revised by Adrian Room (HarperCollinsPublishers, New York, 1999, Sixteenth Edition).​

 

Coffee-perky all day long? No dearie... we just have a big time zone difference. When you are ready to put your head down for the night, and browsing the forum on your i-thing, and saying to yourself "good god.. how can they?" when you look at my banter with @Ouroboros, I am just having my freshly roasted, just-ground, thick first decoction degree coffee. And I do sound coffee-perky. And then I have only the routine scheme to get the cohabitante off to work, listen to some music, walk on the treadmill, and have a wonderful day with nothing on the critical path of any project.

Yes. Weaver was wright. It is OK to be older; but better to be young. When you get old, it is good not to get to a point where you had to lament: "youth is wasted on the young".

Is that quote "Each person has something he can do easily and can't imagine why everybody else has so much trouble doing it." from Slaughter House Five ? Another Indiana author I like is Booth Tarkington. His novel Penrod (about a boy named Penrod) should'a been as famous as Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn, but somehow there'd been a marketing mishap, and that novel is not all that well known.

You, Poovai, and I all have real estate non-resident "ownership" stories. After you've heard enough of those stories, you'd just figure it is one more of those investment-gone-awry things, and move on. You can not stress the heart too much in old age.

I want you to be young and carry on.

 

People abandon their hubcaps... not their hubs.

A hubcap, wheel cover or wheel trim is a decorative disk on an automobile wheel that covers at least a central portion of the wheel, called the hub. An automobile hubcap is used to cover the wheel hub and the wheel fasteners to reduce the accumulation of dirt and moisture.

 

For you, I can send some chashmé baddoor stickers for the cheek☻
Chashm-e-Baddoor (Persian, Urdu: چشمِ بد دور, Hindi: चश्म-ए-बददूर ) is a slogan extensively used in Iran, North India and Pakistan to ward-off the evil eye (which is called nazar in the region). It is a Persian language derivation which literally means "far be the evil eye."[1]

 

^^^I am sure there are threads about how miscomprehensions, misconstructions, and other mis-es within a family escalate high enough into everybody declaring "you're dead to me" and going off to their corners.

Eventually after everybody gets a break/breather they can play it all back, and chuckle to themselves.

Why isn't someone asking for such stories in a thread, stories where everything is quite ordinary, life is placid, and suddenly there is a big problem, all manner of words and phrases get tossed out*, and there is all around heartache and misery. Eventually all is vell, and the situation gets much better than it was ever before. This was called a "Man in Hole" story. I like such stories.

*Wren & Martin might teach what words to toss where, how and when. A critical book, when used right, could lead to that off-scale happiness.