Perpetually Perplexed

 How many times do you hear it and tell it to your spouse. Some of the clever ones - like me may not tell it loud. But the feeling is always there.    Let us give take some examples. The dress you are wearing is not clean. Spouse did not wash it properly or did not instruct the maid to wash it cleanly. You do not have a clean pressed shirt. She is too eager to put the clothes for washing. But never irons.  Why should she wash it so frequently? And after all, who will buy the detergent?. Her dad?   On the other side, your dress is not so nice looking. He did not come with you to buy the dress, so you were all alone and bought something which is not so nice. Or even worse, he came with a long face and was unresponsive.    You are having problems at your office. What else could be the reason? You had a fight at home. So you were irritable. And started a fight. With the boss! If only your spouse had not fought with you at home, all these difficulties w...

      We all are exploited in one way or the other. By our bosses, by our husbands, by our maids. But more than all these, we are exploited by our children. You don't agree? You say my child/ren is/are a gem. He/She/They love me so much. How can you even think that I am being exploited by them? Let me explain how.      When you start cooking what do you do first. You keep aside brinjal. Why your child hates it AND it makes a hell lot of fuss if brinjal is in the lunch. You make a point to make raitha 365 days because your child likes it. It does not matter much, if a certain dish is not liked by your husband. He can always be silenced by out-shouting. But not the child. So every day you cook the favorites of your child.      When you are out to buy something for yourself, you visit hundred stores looking for a bargain and buy the CHEAPEST one. Let us say a mobile. You tell yourself that mobile is a device to listen to FM...