ഒരു വിവാഹ ഒരുക്ക സെമിനാറിന്റെ ഇടയിൽ ഒരു പയ്യൻ ക്ലാസ് എടുത്തു കൊണ്ടിരുന്ന അച്ചനോട് ചോദിച്ചു. 'അച്ചാ, ദാമ്പത്യ ജീവിതത്തിൽ ക്ഷമയ്ക്കും സമാധാനത്തിനും ആണോ കൂടുതൽ പ്രാധാന്യം?' വളരെ സരസനായിരുന്ന അച്ചൻ ഒരിത്തിരി നേരം ആലോചിച്ചിട്ട് മറുപടി പറഞ്ഞു. 'ക്ഷമയ്ക്കും സമാധാനത്തിനും പ്രസക്തിയുണ്ട്. എങ്കിലും ദാമ്പത്യ ജീവിതത്തിൽ പോത്തിറച്ചി വലിയ പ്രാധാന്യം അർഹിക്കുന്നു എന്ന് പറയേണ്ടിവരും. എനിക്കറിയാവുന്ന ഒരു മറിയാമ്മ ചേട്ടത്തിയുടെയും ഔസേപ്പ് ചേട്ടന്റെയും കഥ പറയാം.
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Monday, February 24, 2025
ദാമ്പത്യ ജീവിതവും പോത്തിറച്ചിയും
വിവാഹം കഴിഞ്ഞ ആദ്യ നാളുകളിൽ ചേട്ടൻ എന്തെങ്കിലും കന്നംതിരിവ് കാണിക്കുകയോ ചേട്ടത്തിയെ ചീത്ത പറയുകയോ ചെയ്താൽ വളരെ ശാന്തമായും സമാധാനമായും ചേട്ടത്തി അത് കൈകാര്യം ചെയ്തിരുന്നു. നാളുകൾ കുറച്ച് ആയപ്പോൾ ഔസേപ്പ് ചേട്ടൻ ചേട്ടത്തിയുടെ ഈ നല്ല മനസ്സ് ശരിക്കും മുതലെടുക്കാൻ തുടങ്ങി. തോന്നിയവാസങ്ങൾ കൂടുതലായപ്പോൾ ചേട്ടത്തി കുറച്ചൊന്ന് ഉറച്ച ശബ്ദത്തിൽ പറഞ്ഞു നോക്കി. കാര്യങ്ങൾ വഷളായത് അല്ലാതെ ഔസേപ്പ് ചേട്ടൻ നന്നാവുന്ന ലക്ഷണമൊന്നും കാണിച്ചില്ല.
അങ്ങനെയിരിക്കെ ഒരു ദിവസം, ഒന്നും രണ്ടും പറഞ്ഞു ചേട്ടനും ചേട്ടത്തിയും കൂടെ തെറ്റി. വഴക്കായി, വക്കാണമായി, എന്തിനേറെ പറയുന്നു, ചേട്ടൻ ചേട്ടത്തിയെ കൈവെച്ചു. തികച്ചും ശാന്തയായിരുന്ന മറിയാമ്മ ചേട്ടത്തിയുടെ മനസ്സ് കലുഷിതമായി. ചേട്ടത്തി, മൂത്തമകൻ അന്തോണിയെ ചന്തയിൽ പറഞ്ഞുവിട്ട്, രണ്ട് കിലോ പോത്തിറച്ചി മേടിപ്പിച്ചു. പോത്തിറച്ചി വന്നതും, ചേട്ടത്തി നല്ല പൂവരശിന്റെ പലകയെടുത്ത് രാകി വച്ചിരുന്ന വെട്ടുകത്തിയുമായി പണി തുടങ്ങി. ഔസേപ്പ് ചേട്ടൻ അടുക്കളയിലേക്ക് വന്നപ്പോൾ, പോത്തിറച്ചി വെട്ടുന്ന ശബ്ദവും വേഗവും കൂടി വന്നു. തികച്ചും നിഷ്കളങ്കമായി ഔസേപ്പ് ചേട്ടൻ ചോദിച്ചു, ഇത് എന്നതാടി ഇത്രയും ശക്തിക്ക് വെട്ടുന്നത്?
അന്നാമ്മ ചേട്ടത്തി ആ ചോദ്യത്തിന് ഒരൊറ്റ മറുപടി മാത്രം പറഞ്ഞു. ഇങ്ങനെ വെട്ടിയാൽ ഒരു പന്നിയുടെ കഴുത്ത് മുറിയുമോന്ന് നോക്കിയതാ!
അന്നുമുതൽ ഔസേപ്പ് ചേട്ടൻ എപ്പോ മൊട എടുത്താലും ചേട്ടത്തി അപ്പൊ തന്നെ മകനെ ചന്തയ്ക്കു വിടും. ശേഷം ശുഭം.'
Saturday, June 8, 2024
Colour of Horror
He was careful not to mix light colours with dark ones while placing the clothes in a bucket of soap and water. It was even more important this time since he had taken one of her prized possessions, a grey designer wear which she was planning to wear for an upcoming party that was very special for her.
All dark colours together… That was the mantra and he absolutely followed it. He mixed his son’s black shorts along with her grey dress. The shorts were infamous for its jet-black colour which every time when washed, shed a peel of black layer. Anything along with the shorts was meant to get tainted!
A few minutes later he went back to the bucket and slowly lifted the designer dress. The cloth seemed to have inherited a special hue of black. She had initially reversed and placed the dress in the laundry basket which found its way into the bucket in the same manner. When reversed, the dress looked quite a dark shade of grey. The original outer side had a pearl white colour which now qualifies to be called black pearl!
She was passing by when he was trying to hide the catastrophe. A high-pitched blood curdling scream reverberated through the house. She took the dress and reversed it to expose the outer side. The only thing that had a deeper shade than the black colour on the dress was her face. A dangerously deep shade of red it was.
Remembering their recent visit to an apparel shop where they suggested dyeing as a method to get your colour of choice, he told her, the dress will look as if it was dyed. A total silence was the response. After a few moments, everything happened exactly how he predicted. Dyed indeed was the outcome, just that it was spelt differently.
He is now the President of the elite club of HDH – Husbands Dyed in Heaven!
An idea, indeed, can change your life!
Alex and Nisha had a fantastic tenth anniversary celebration recently. Unlike some of the couples from their parents’ generation, they both had agreed to share various duties at home. Among the others, Alex had the responsibility of keeping the house clean.
Generally Alex never defaulted on his duty, but Nisha had been observing a disturbing trend for the past few weeks. The frequency of cleaning seemed to be getting longer and longer. Regular reminders did not seem to be working anymore. During the last couple of weeks it reached a point where Nisha had to step in and do the cleaning herself. It was definitely a breach of duty and needed corrective action.
They stepped into their third week where the trend continued to bother her. Many a times kitchen was the worst hit with maximum activities happening there unlike various other rooms in the house. Nisha decided it was high time she did something about it. Something drastic!
Other than cleaning, Alex also had the responsibility of doing laundry at home. That day he decided that the pile of clothes had reached a dangerous level that he was sure to get a not-so-friendly reminder soon from his sweetheart. He promptly headed to the washing machine which was placed in the kitchen and loaded it with soiled clothes. As usual, he set the washing machine in the desired mode and left it for washing.
While the clothes were doing a trapeze inside the washing machine, Alex continued with other interesting activities which were more amusing than the boring chores. After a few minutes he returned to kitchen to fetch some snacks. What awaited him was something short of a disaster. Half of the kitchen floor was flooded! Water continued to rise and soon it was to reach the boundaries of kitchen threatening to flood the other parts of the house.
He frantically called out to Nisha who came running. By the time she reached the kitchen, Alex figured out that the washing machine’s outlet pipe had become lose and the water leak was the result of this malfunction. Together they quickly stopped the water flow so that the flood doesn’t get across to the other rooms.
Without wasting any moment, Nisha handed over the mop and the floor wiper to Alex. He immediately got down to work and after about half an hour the kitchen was sparkling clean! Nisha took a good look at the kitchen and felt that the whole place was never this beautiful, ever. Alex looked at her and was not sure if he noticed a slight grin on her face or maybe it was just his mind playing games with him.
There was a plastic container below the kitchen sink next to the washing machine’s outlet. As the pipe came lose, water that leaked found its way into this container. In the frenzy of clearing everything from the kitchen, Alex had placed this container in the balcony. The container had a couple of holes on it and by the time he finished with the kitchen, the balcony was flooded. They now have a sparkling balcony as well!
A few moments earlier while wiping the floor dry, Alex mentioned to Nisha that they need to find a permanent solution to the outlet pipe so that it remain fixed. Nisha nodded her head in agreement, but her brain was working extra time to think of a hundred ways by which the pipe never gets fixed!
Alex is yet to figure out if the grin on her face was real or not…
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