SHE – I don’t think it’s a good idea!
ME – Come on! It doesn’t rain every other day!
SHE – Yeah! But walking in the rain? Who does that!
ME – Everyone does that!
SHE – Everyone with an umbrella!
ME – And raincoat!
SHE – Okay! But we neither have raincoat nor an umbrella!
ME – That’s exactly what I was talking about! Walking in the rain without an umbrella or raincoat! Getting completely drenched!
SHE – And why exactly do you think we should be doing that?
ME – So you think it’s not an exciting idea?
SHE – “Bad idea”, is the precise way of describing it!
A moment of silence!
ME – Okay girl! Tell me! Have you ever done bungee jumping?
SHE – No!
ME – See! That’s my point! You have never done a bungee jump because you “think” that you are scared of heights!
SHE – Wrong! I have never done a bungee jumping because I have never been to a place which has one.
A moment of silence!
ME – I should probably use some other example! Okay! Tell me one thing that you don’t like!
SHE – Walking under the rain without an umbrella or raincoat!
ME – Ah! Come on! Give me another!
SHE – You want another? That would be you trying to convince me to walk under the rain!
Silence….
ME – Ok! Look at it this way! You think that you don’t like walking under the rain! But how will you know if you don’t give it a try! Give it and a try and then arrive at conclusion!
SHE – last week, after the movie! I hope you remember how we ran from the theatre to the parking lot and I slipped real bad.
ME – But you didn’t fall down!
SHE – But I fell ill!
ME – Yeah! But you didn’t fall “down”!
SHE – I could have fallen! Had I fallen, I would have broken my knee!
ME – Look! When you slip, you fall on your back! There’s no way that your knee will get hurt!
SHE – So, you saying that you are okay with me breaking my back?
Silence….
ME – Look, that was Sprint! But this! This would be walking. A real slow walk!
SHE – Oh! Come on! That’s illogical? How different are they? Moreover I don’t want people to laugh at us, while we walk slowly under the rain!
ME – How is that illogical! And are saying that Usain bolt and Matej Toth are no different from each other?
SHE – Who is Matej Toth?
ME – He won gold in 20km walk! The Rio Olympics!
SHE – I didn’t know that!
ME – Exactly! See everyone knows Usain Bolt, but not Matej Toth! Bottom line- If you run people would notice, but if you walk, people would not! So there is no question of people laughing at us!
Silence…
SHE – I am not coming! Let’s end this conversation!
ME – Okay! How about this? I will walk under the rain? And you could use an umbrella and walk along!
SHE – Yeah! But we don’t have an umbrella!
I proceeded to make an exit.
SHE – Where are you going?
ME – Give me 5 minutes lady and you would know!
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After an hour…
SHE – It’s been an hour! Where are you? Where did you go?
ME – I had come out to buy an umbrella from this shop across the street and…
SHE – And what? You still deciding on the colors?
ME – Na! I slipped while sprinting to this shop and..
SHE – And…? Did you break your back?
ME – No! It’s the knee!
-CHAN
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