For Life

This last interval of the day without electricity is turning out to be the most unbearable one. As always I would have a list of things to accomplish before sunshine and life ceases with me squashed against the dark like a dead bug on a glass window. Pressing clothes was never an exciting thought but I'd like my O.T dress to enjoy such a luxury. Plus, now that I am finally in a routine I start dozing off with a delayed Isha half the time. I have missed school two days in a row without a substantial reason. I have been extra nice to people, lately.

If I have been ugly to you, it's the right time to approach me for some sugar.

I was just teasing Saria about how she wastes days and days doing nothing but lying at one spot.
"Har waqt leti kyun rehti ho, koi kaam karo, be active," Amma had reprimanded.
"Mom, it's my passion!" Saria had replied satisfactorily.
"What? Hahahaha!" It was the funniest thing I had heard in the longest time.

So, the last time they couldn't find anything to tease someone about, they had conjured figments of odd actions associated to one another and would go about making fun of each other.
"Daniyal tum raat mein bol rahay thay kuch, tumhain kiya khuwab aya tha?" Yumna had questioned him in jest.
"Mujhay? Koi bhi khuwab nahi aya tha, kiya bola mainay?" Daniyal investigated.
"Tum uth kay beth ga-ay or kehnay lagay DUM GHUTKON, DUM GHUTKON!" Saria informed him.
"Really?"
"Why are you so surprised, you said it."

Okay, so all of us have had some really embarrassing moments associated with us that have been a must mention on the list of every relative any time you see them. I get the teasing aspect of it, I would like to pick on a family member for a while, as well, but it has been years, come on! It was my Comprehensive Exam for Pakistan Studies when I stepped out of the gates of P.C into the rain. Now, Pakistan Studies is all about writing, getting extra copies, filling pages, so nothing else pops in your head but bulk and bulk of answers that you have photocopied in your brain. It had only occurred to me after standing in the rain for a minute how badly I needed to use the bathroom. Right at that instant I was jabbed by the sight of a Nissan Patrol filled with faces I love coming to a halt right in front of me.

"What the?"
"Come on Bajjo, let's go!"
"What the? Where are we going?"
"Emergency picnic!"
"Yeaaaaaahhhh!!!!"
"Um, okay."

I gulped and hopped inside the overcrowded Patroller, resisting my issues. It was an awesome ride, had half of my brain not consoling my bladder issues it would have been an enjoyable one, as well. Then, I had had it and had made an abrupt announcement that I needed to go. Now, it's such an ordinary happening of one's life, nothing dramatic about it and if I were them I would have understood that the girl just walked out of an exam, but NO!

All right, it wasn't so ordinary after all since the entire emergency picnic turned out to be a hunt for a sanctuary for my emergency.

God bless the McDonald's walay!