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Bikram Vohra
JournalismPakistan.com
May 28, 2013
The scariest situation for a husband (or a boyfriend) is to suddenly be confronted with that one little question for which they are never quite prepared.
Notice something different? Three words fraught with danger.
There is the husband back home after a rigorous day at the office looking forward to nothing more than putting his feet up and relaxing when the wife says, notice something different?
Immediately panic descends. What could it be? The sofa covers, the cushion, some new painting, dash it, has to be something, has she redone the table setting, what on earth is it?
For wives this is a major event and not to be taken lightly. A husband worth his salt is expected to get it right. Those who are a little smarter stall for time. Give me a clue, they say, everything looks so perfect, it is impossible to tell what's new. Now, that sort of blatant flattery might wash under normal circumstances but it hasn't a chance when it comes to find the change, the stakes are far too high.
By now, the husband is on his knees and she is going into freeze mode and she says, don't tell me you can't figure it out, after all the trouble I took...this means we are now moving into very sticky territory and things are not looking good.
So, the poor husband, he takes a deep breath and he says, now, ummmmmm, let me see, it isn't the curtains, not the pelmets, and it isn't the sideboard, not is it the potted plant, running off this list in the hope that her body language will give her away, was that flipping potted plant always there or has it been changed?
Finally, he says, the cushions, you have changed the cushions.
She goes all rigid and chilly is the wind that blows through the room. Then she says those awful words that made the strongest of husbands quail. "I don't know why I bother, not that it makes any difference to you."
(The writer is a Senior Editorial Advisor of Khaleej Times and the paper’s former Editor. He has also been the Editor of Gulf News, Gulf Today, Emirates Today and Bahrain Tribune)
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