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Sahana Prasad

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Sahana Prasad

Others

Thank God For Husbands!!

Thank God For Husbands!!

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“You need a husband, as you can’t blame the government for everything!” A wise mother told her daughter, who was very reluctant to get married. As time passes, a husband is the one who gets blamed for everything, a drastic change from honeymoon days, when he would be only showered with flattery and love!


It could be as trivial as newspaper not arriving on time (“You told him that we read it online as soon as we get up, so he would have delayed delivering the physical copy”) or something very serious like the maid playing truant (“ You scolded her for not sweeping behind doors, which maid will suffer such stuff!”), the cook taking off( Why did you have to make such a fuss about a little extra salt in sambar? You anyways suffer from hypertension, you could have taken an extra dose of medicine!”)


The value of a husband is realized when we need to stand in long queues. I recently felt the relief when I had to visit a hospital and each department- billing, lab, radiography, consultation room, etc. was situated on different floors and poor chap huffed and puffed as the lift wasn’t functioning. Your truly sat on a chair, comfortable enough to accommodate my bulk, browsing through various websites giving advice on “ how to assert yourself”, “ how to dominate your husband”, “ how to make him your personal assistant” and so on. Of course, I did feel a twinge of sympathy as he wasn’t allowed into the doctor’s chamber by the stern faced nurse. She, working in the gynaec unit must have thought all men as the cause for all female troubles and gave him a nasty look, which made him scamper to the last row and chair!


Husbands are extremely useful as drivers too. After innumerable efforts to learn car driving, with the successive tutors giving up in despair, pedestrians on road reporting to cops, neighbors assailed by car crashing against all possible structures, I find it a huge relief to sit in the passenger seat, examine my face in the mirror or gossiping with friends while he drives with a relieved face that the places haven’t been interchanged! Needless to say, he is also left to deal with traffic, vendors (“Can you buy some flowers, greens at the next junction? Else you would have to goto market as soon as you drop me home!”) They also are handy when it comes to dropping friends home- I know its far, but Reena has a small kid and for a pretty lady like her, it isn’t advisable to go by cab this hour. He is further stumped by the statement that he is a safe driver/ compan for the above mentioned pretty woman!


As ATMs, husbands have absolutely no match. As a perrennial source of cash, they are as indispensible as a credit card on shopping a shopping spree. It doesn’t matter how much a wife earns, shopping is fun as long as hubby’s card is getting swiped. They are amazing as photographers too. Who else but they can patiently wait as the dear lady combs each strand of hair, flicks each dot of foundadtion, pat each pleat into place. She will check every picture critically, given stern looks to the poor fellow, who frantically tries to explain how his wife looks a tad dull, the tree at background more prominent and so on. No lensman will stand by and click many an image of the same scene this number of times.


Who can forget them when we have huge loads to carry? Be it airport, train station, bus stops or shopping malls, we require them for carryring our stuff while we stroll, or so daintily in our heels, balancing our mobiles in one hand and our purses in the other. Of course, we need to wave our hands while talking on the phone or getulating widely while texting. Husbands double up as security as well as coolies on such occassions!


C’mon ladies, give a big round of applause to these guys who make our lives so easy.


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