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How come you haven’t made any resolutions for
2008, observed my husband (he normally is the first person to
hear of my New Year resolutions).
What’s the point in making impulsive
resolutions and breaking them, I said.
Thank God, for once you seem to be aware of
at least one of your several shortcomings, he remarked.
Well, I know about them and don’t hesitate to
admit unlike you, I shot back.
Your second shortcoming - reacting without
any provocation, he said laughing.
You don’t call that a shortcoming, do you, I
retorted.
Why don’t YOU admit "at least one" of your
several shortcomings, I said, and added, for a change.
Me and shortcomings! I don’t think I have
any, he boasted.
I knew you would say that. The biggest
shortcoming of all men is 'Their Giant-Sized Ego' and you are no
exception which prevents you from admitting the fact, I said.
That’s a sweeping statement because sometimes
we may have to bury our ego and admit the fact when we are left
with no other “alternative”, he said, his tone suddenly
changing.
I don’t recall at any point of time you
admitted either your shortcomings or your grey areas or owned up
your mistakes for that matter in all these decades I have been
married to you, I reminded him.
Perhaps, he parried.
Why don’t you concede the fact that it’s
because I had been a very docile and obedient wife, I prompted.
O.K. yes, I do, if that pleases you, he said
looking straight into my eyes.
But I have not been so lucky with... - he
didn’t complete the sentence.
Not so lucky with whom, I asked puzzled.
With my temperamental, eccentric and
cantankerous, self-opinionated BOSS, He said.
Well, you are expected to obey him whatever
his shortcomings and say 'Yes boss, you are right as always," I
advised.
Your advice might have worked if my boss
belonged to my clan, he quipped.
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