Mind it, I say!

Quick Gun Murugun woke up one morning and suffered a huge complex after he read in the newspapers about a guy with 14 wives. He said, “What fool repeats the same mistake 14 times, I say!”

It’s no secret in curry cowboy country that Murugun’s marriage was on the rocks. Incidentally, these were the same rocks under which he’d proposed to his wife after a romantic date during which they shared a hot cup of kaapi and a masala dosa at an Udipi restaurant. “So what if marriages are made in heaven,” wailed Murugun about his marital mess. “But someone still has to enter the kitchen and steam the idlis!”

Murugun wondered how someone could cope with 14 wives when most men can’t handle one! His troubles had started soon after honeymoon when Murugun was all set to leave home in a green shirt, purple trousers, a golden belt and a cowboy hat.

He hadn’t got as far as the door when his wife screamed, “You’re not going to wear that, are you? Tell me you’re not going to wear that, because I will leave you right now!” Nobody had warned Murugun that after marriage men lose the ability to choose clothing by themselves! It’s probably why superheroes remain unmarried. Mrs Superman may never allow her husband to fly out of their bedroom window and save the world wearing red underwear over his blue tights!

“Beware when your wife discovers the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach,” recalled Murugun, who made the mistake of praising his wife’s drumstick sambar on Day One of their marriage.

After that, it seemed he was going to be served drumstick sambar for the rest of his life! Until one day he politely told his wife that he’d like to stay away from drumstick sambar for a few weeks. “Oh, so now suddenly you don’t like my drumstick sambar,” sobbed his baffled biwi. “You don’t love me anymore!”

“My marriage is like India-Pakistan relationship,” concluded Murugun and imagined the two countries as a bickering couple.

INDIA: It’s your fault! Had you not trained terrorists, 26/11 wouldn’t have happened!
PAKISTAN: No, your fault! Had you stopped us from training terrorists, 26/11 could have been avoided! I want a divorce!
INDIA: But we divorced 62 years ago!
PAKISTAN: Then this is a custody battle! I want Kashmir!
INDIA: No, Kashmir will stay with me!