Sunday, December 4, 2011

Love makes people do amazing things: Take 1

I have always wondered about this and now sitting at mumbai airport terminal 1B I still have not fathomed the answer. Sitting right next to me is this guy about my age talking with the mouth piece of his handsfree in his mouth. Yeah "in" his mouth. He has been continuously talking but I dare any human being with normal hearing capabilities to catch even a single word of what he has said so far. Please don't get me wrong, am not trying to eavesdrop on this particular guys private conversation but since my college days I have always wondered how people develop this fine art of talking over phone in a voice that barely carries 2 feet. The same friend you find yelling over the phone while talking to his friends or relatives (read mother, boys always yell at mothers as if its their birthright) suddenly seems to lose his voice when the girlfriend calls. And if its a late night call you might not notice he has been talking for hours untill you wake for a loo break and see him talking. The level of secrecy would undoubtedly baffle even the CIA's and the KGB's of the world. This voice drop, though in itself baffeling, is coupled by the girls ability to hold on to every syllable uttered in this secretive technique. I have always been told that love made people achieve amazing things. I don't know about the stuff dished out by romantic hindi movies but I am surely amazed at this particular skill development which happens in almost everybody talking to "the special one " over a phone. My observation though is limited to the Indian people only as I have not had the opportunity to be in close contact with people of other nationalities. All the time I have been typing this on my hand held the guys lip movement has barely ceased for 2 minutes. The smile that plays on his face once in a while is also so subtle that I am not sure at times if its real or imagined. There is a flight announcement and he picked up his things to leave, not letting go of his mouth piece still in the mouth. I still have not found the answer but I guess its ok. After all " agar dilon mein hairaniyan le ke chal rahe ho ... To zinda ho tum".

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