Wednesday, March 31, 2010

'Yearning' for quiet life

“Shut your dirty, rotton mouth.”
No, no. I am not telling you buddies. Will I dare? These are the words my Math master used to scream at me when I yawned during his class, which I did repeatedly.
I remember I wanted to say the same words to a Mumbai dentist who sat close to me during treatment, without his mask (those days dentists rarely used one), and let go a wide yawnnnn. I felt a lion was about to pluck my head. (Hope dear dentist friends Nitu and Kavita skip this post)
“Ooof..hehe..I did not sleep properly yesterday,” he rubbed it in.
“Honeymoon?” I wanted to ask, but he had warned that I should keep my mouth wide open and not shut.
Why so much about yawning?
The pretty girl at the mall counter asked me, “You have change?”
“No.”
“Hmmmm,” she opened the cash counter yawning.
“You seem tired?” I said.
She flashed a “what’s your damn problem?” look, banged the counter box and moved to the next customer.
“Can’t you keep your mouth shut?” asked my colleague dragging me.
“You mean dirty, rotton mouth?” I ran with him.

27 comments:

  1. hahaha! :P
    I am glad dentists use masks now :P

    :)

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  2. Hilarious, Ramesh! The Hippos always have rotten teeth, why?

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  3. Hee hee hee hee :D !!
    giggling! :P

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  4. if Kavita reads this, then she will take ur case properly :P

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  5. The only person who scares me is a Dentist.

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  6. OMG !!! Dentist didnt use mask..ewwww thas awful...was that girl pretty or you do this kind of conversation with every girl who you come across.If yes then i need to speak to your wify:D

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  7. hehehe!! I wonder how dentists face their patients :)) that too they hv to face the rotten mouth :))

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  8. I am scared of dentists too. Somehow, when they come at you with your weapons, they seem very close to causing damage :). Nitu, no offence meant :)

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  9. Did u know that Yawning doesn't mean that u r lazy or feeling sleepy.

    It simply means that there is a lack of oxygen in your body and you are just sucking in that :D

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  10. LOL, sometimes yawns are really irritating

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  11. poor man the dentist...what a job!...has to deal with nasty smells all day long!

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  12. hi
    i am shifting to mumbai and planning to put my daughter in r.n.podar........ as you have been in the city any feedback you can give .....please.....

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  13. dear anonymous, i cant guess who u r...kindly get to me on rrames@hotmail.com

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  14. I mean I am sure if you can pen down all this, your talk might be similar. None of your blog friends are going to say that I am sure!

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  15. oh! boy! poor us dentist. we really are so unpopular !!!! lol!!!

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  16. Good...yawnings and your yearnings...!

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  17. Funny take on a simple part of life. First time here... will visit more often now..
    Keep the spark alive...
    Cheers..
    JD

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  18. Hilerous. Good read. We have to keep our mouth shut at home too. I hope I don't have to define 'we' here.

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  19. I don't like going to Dentist either. Nice read.

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  20. hi . first time here through nitu's blog. am not a blogger though. nice posts you have here.

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  21. :) Some words never stop haunting us, do they? :P

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  22. The best thing about your posts are that they never allow even the hint of a yawn!!

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  23. A yawn and a poor breath can be a deadly combination.

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  24. You are the best when it comes to writing humour in variety - exaggerating sometimes and also writing very apt and to-the-point :)

    While reading - couldn't help but give a smile first and then laugh plenty as I reached the end of this post :)

    Cheers,
    Sai :)

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