He is a nice fellow, sensible and intelligent if i may say so! Happily married and now retired, he also has a nice group of friends. His wife too has her own group of friends. They both are leading a pretty active social life for their age in their housing society. They both are fine from health point of view, no major issues. But for his silly habit of being overly imaginative!
His mind is at it's peak of imagining things in early morning waking hours when his dear wife is still sleeping. As they say, empty mind is a devil's workshop. The main problem is, he mostly has unusual or weird thoughts which go berserk for no reason. And that too about people whom he loves most and cares for!
For instance, the other day when he woke up early, he started thinking about his one friend who in his opinion was not keeping good health. Careless fellow, I must ask him to get all basic medical tests done he decided. This nice fellow also feels that his another friend is a bad driver. One early morning, he imagined that his friend could meet with an accident if he does not take some driving classes to improve his driving skills. He must suggest this to him!
His favorite area is matrimonial match making. He keeps thinking of those single boys and girls whom he knows, who he thinks are taking too much time to go forward and find their life partners. He would bother his wife on this when she wakes up. He would suggest pairing them off. His wife would retort, 'tumko kuch aur kaam nahi hai? Do you not have any thing else to do? Please do not bore me!'
But what took cake was when he began thinking of retired elderly men and women who had lost their respective spouses in the recent past. They must be feeling so lonely! Even in this old age, they need company. Why can not so and so think of tying a knot with so and so, he wondered. Nothing wrong in this in the present times!
One fine (?) morning, he started thinking about himself. What will happen to his wife if he suddenly passes away! How will she manage? She does not do anything herself. She does not know how to even withdraw money at the ATM! She never visits our bank;I am doing everything. How will she manage, poor thing? He decided to train her in all these things straightaway. And then, another thought struck him;she may get remarried!
She must make a proper choice if she really does that! And his mind started doing a google search. That retired General XYZ who is a widower and keeps talking to many elderly women in the society, is not a bad chap all said and done. He is in good health too. Only, he appears too friendly with a certain widow who happens to be my wife's friend. Her name is Ms Pinto. She would be a problem!
But the real problem in his mind was that he could not imagine his dear wife getting married to anyone, period!
By this time, his wife had woken up and as is their common habit, she was looking at her mails. Suddenly, she turned to him and said,'what do you know, there is good news! Ms Pinto has sent a personal mail to me.She says, General XYZ has proposed to her and she intends to say yes!'
He hugged his wife a little too forcefully. What is the matter with you? She said. 'Nothing really' he replied. 'But let us celebrate the good news your friend has shared' he added!
What a relief, he thanked his stars!
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