Holidays, Tsunamis And Upright Members Of Society

"We are going to Mahabalipuram" announced the older sib. "We shall visit you for a week. We'll attend all the various receptions and pack off the next day. We have booked two rooms, so you can come with us too".

I loved the idea. A few days by the beach! I love going and soaking myself in the sea. I have probably mentioned earlier what a criminal waste of beach and sea water it is going there with the BH. He refuses to let me go anymore than knee deep and if I want to swim, he insists I sit down in the water and he will hold my hand till I feel like a dog on a leash. "I don't know how to swim and if you drown I can't come to save you" says the gallant man! "But I can swim and don't need any saving" I say to ears which are firmly shut without earplugs.

I badly need an outing. I have had enough of my room, my students, my work and youtube. Youtube certainly does not score high when it presents one with infinite predictions of tsunamis anywhere between the date you plan to land in Mahabalipuram and the end of the year. "There is a very high possibility of a tsunami" I inform the sib and bil. There is no response. My nephew says "don't worry, the astrologer has asasured you 80 years and mom 85". Now that sounds really optimistic. I don't know which is worse! 80 years of the best with the risk of developing Alzheimers' or being washed off by a tsunami! Oh well! I think I'd still risk the Alzheimers'. I don't particularly enjoy water entering my nose, especially when it is high in salts!

Talking of salts, I need to check my BP. Being married to a doc is enough to give one a headache, but going to visit his friends in hospital can give one reason to cancel a trip to Mahabalipuram. So I cancel the trip. "You can still come" says the sib seeing my sad face. "It is not too difficult. Just 6 hours by train and a couple of hours drive from there by cab". 8 hours of waking up at unearthly hours to catch a train (never mind the fact that I still did to see them off! ), sitting upright in a train and then in a cab, dragging suitcases along ..... I just realized a very important fact of life "I am not an upright member of society." Certainly not upright enough to travel. I get a lot of pics from them from Mahabalipuram. BIL is no better than the BH. What is it with men? So I see the sib standing in water enough to lick the soles of her feet. I chide her for that. Next day she gets wet upto the knee! Yippee! Finally some good sense dawning.

There has not been any tsunami thus far. I get bored at home. So I pack off to work to see what tsunamis of brilliance our students decide to unleash on us in the exams. At least I can get some tax free entertainment while also getting paid for it!!! As for Mahabalipuram, the beach will have to wait for me. Don't get washed away in any tsunami until then, dear beach!

 

Thanks a lot Geeta. Haan beach aur mere beech mein bahut faasla hain. Hopefully that can change! Love your play on words.

 

Thanks Anisu. I know. Wish I could have gone, but I was exhausted. Did not want my holiday to end up as a torture for me and a headache for sis and bil.

 

Very true! Only when one is not feeling upto it, it is not fair to take a risk - sis and bil are both senior citizens with their own health issues. Let's hope I get to go there again and have good fun, but I hope I go with friends rather than with BH! I'd love to get soaked in the water!

 

LOL SunPa. Am glad I was not the only one watching all these tsunami predictions! What is it with men and the sea? I am beginning to churn a new theory in my mind. All those who drown in the sea during some lifetime are reborn as men in another lifetime and are so traumatized they refuse to let their near and dear ones go near the water. And to think it is men who want their kids to be toughened and play rough games and scrape a few knees, hands and elbows!