All my life(atleast till now) I have seen people talk about the characters in FRIENDS and I didnt have a clue of what they were talking about.
Off late, even I caught the FRIENDS fever, and I found myself watching the whole series back to back every evening.. (I am right now in the start of Season 7!)
Co-incidentally,
Sash has written about how much of a Monica they are, and that triggerred off the whole Monica-dialogue we have been having at home for sometime now.
Well, I always knew I am mad, and that few of my habits are so weird that I know I have the capability to drive people nuts, but I never thought I am so painful until I saw Monica do the exact same thing that I believe in. I scream out loud saying "She is a mad woman!", and then go completely chup.. coz my conscience is telling me that I am watching myself on the TV.. :)
So here is the list of the weirdest things about me, which even I find foolish, yet I am compelled to do it. I am sooo OCD-ious.
- The comforter/razai has designated head and foot sides. And under no circumstances is anyone allowed to change them. Sometimes I tell myself that its okay, and cover my head with the foot-side one, only to see myself get up after 2 mins and pull over the whole thing and make it right.
- I treat my bed like a temple. I dont sit on it with the dresses I have worn outside, and no one is allowed to put their feet on the cot. (Ask my roomies how I used to drive them nuts about this. All of them swear violently when they are reminded of the fights I used to have when someone sits on my bed in her bahar-ka-dress)
- I HAVE to fold the plastic covers. All the grocery bags(plastic ones) eventually go into a cupboard for re-use as dust-bin bags(my bit to the re-cycle thingy) and it really doesnt matter how they are in there. But I have to fold them neatly and put them there, though they will all be pulled by the maid the next morning.
- I have categories in the plastic covers. Few go to the dust-bin cupboard, and a few of them go into the plastic-cover-storage-cupboard. And I give away these bags to people who need them based on their needs. If someone has few clothes but has to go a long way, then I give them a good Shopper's Stop cover. If you are just going downstairs then you get a regular FoodBazar cover. If you are carrying good clothes, then you get a Be or a Buzz cover... And I have to follow these rules, otherwise I spend the day in total restlessness.
- I have to wash my hands atleast 10000 times in a day. I might have just touched the stove lighter, but I wash my hands immediately. This again depends on what I touch. If I happen to touch my sandals by any chance, then I run to the wash-basin and wash my hands with Dettol!
- I cannot put anything I carry on the ground. Be a office-knapsack or a shopping-bag or a really heavy grocery bag, but I cannot put it on the ground. Imagine how dirty the ground would be and we take all those germs into the house.. Yikes..
- The bean bag has to be arranged in one specified manner. (I do relax this a bit when we have guests, but they HAVE to be in their regular place once they are gone!)
- The bedsheets have to be folded and the bed has to be made neat the minute I get up. I dont care who else is sleeping on it. I ensure that I wake them up also.
- The knife has to be cleaned before I use it and after I use it, and if I have to use it in exactly 2 mins from the last time I used it, it will still have to be washed.
- I cannot just wash my hands. Everytime I wash them, I have this great urge to wash my feet as well, but I dont do that so many times because washing them means going to the utility room and I will have to wash my hands again with some soap coz I would've touched the taps!
- I sometimes think its all okay and hell wont break lose if I dont do any of the above things, and try not to do it. But exactly in 2 mins, I run like hell really broke open and complete whatever chore it is.
Well... these might look like small issues(if you think these are small, then we could be great friends!) but imagine if you have to stay with a person like this forever..
The one biggest thing that FRIENDS has done to me apart from being a great stress-buster every evening is that - now I appreciate the patience of my husband much better.
I know what a pain it is to be with a person like Monica and yet not make her feel bad and yet love her.. Kudos to that guy! And of course, Chandler!
