Food for Thought!

Last Sunday, Our family had been to cousin's house warming ceremony in Sarjapur Road.

Since it was the ceremony of four owner's gruhapravesh just like mass marriage, naturally the crowd was large and it was not outsiders or friends or colleagues but members from our maternal and paternal family. In a country like India, where there was no family planning earlier, my grandmother gave birth to 11 children and mom is 7th daughter in the family. Each of her children has at least two children. Some of them five. So that makes half century ,grandchildren . The grandchildren have got married and has at least one kid each. That makes another half century, great grandkids. So the population marathon continues.

The point i wanted to make here, by the time you greet everybody,exchange pleasantries and gifts, the stomach made its presence felt and we had to go to basement for the food arrangements. Lo! The organisers had missed sufficient staff and there were only two rows to sit. It was a hungry man's den and the queque was large. One of my Uncle commented that this should have been a Buffet system,so that everybody could get their meals quick.

The catering staff got exhausted serving for the crowd and it was a merry go round row. The lesser in height got the seats quickly and the taller ones from our family had to wait to catch their seats. For me it was like catching a seat in the bus or in a movie to avoid last minute delays. To add to all this frustration, the catering staff forgot to serve the right food and it was more like get away from this quickly.

Finally, what i could express from the entire chaos was, shorter people get to move among the crowd convincingly like great leaders viz Shastri,Napolean, Cricketer Little masters etc., The taller ones have to leave the room for smaller one due to their visibility.