The plight of the single girls in our city is sometimes pathetic I think. There are so many out there that the competition in getting attention of any unattached male who neednt necessarily be worthy of all that attention is pathetic to say the least. I wonder if the same is the case for the opposite sex too.
Anyways I have had the mis…er…fortune to over hear a conversation between two people in the gym. It is a given with these people around that one doesn’t come to the gym to merely exercise. Gyms have now become one of the coolest places to catch guys having similar interests and vice versa. So what if the only thing one found them doing was strutting from a treadmill to a cycle in designer wear and not really bother about serious exercising?
At the cost of sounding like a frumpy 28 something, I must say Orkut has done its work of getting lots of clueless youngsters to mingle and wait for a tingle (er…thanks Karan). So here is a reproduction of the conversation between A (a loud voiced Muslim guy whose main occupation in the gym is socialize loudly) and B (a extrovert girl who is looking for a guy… I think).
B : (notices A near the excer-cycle and walks up to the nearest machine which gives her a chance to watch A through the mirror as she exercised) I scrapped you on Orkut last night.
Anyways I have had the mis…er…fortune to over hear a conversation between two people in the gym. It is a given with these people around that one doesn’t come to the gym to merely exercise. Gyms have now become one of the coolest places to catch guys having similar interests and vice versa. So what if the only thing one found them doing was strutting from a treadmill to a cycle in designer wear and not really bother about serious exercising?
At the cost of sounding like a frumpy 28 something, I must say Orkut has done its work of getting lots of clueless youngsters to mingle and wait for a tingle (er…thanks Karan). So here is a reproduction of the conversation between A (a loud voiced Muslim guy whose main occupation in the gym is socialize loudly) and B (a extrovert girl who is looking for a guy… I think).
B : (notices A near the excer-cycle and walks up to the nearest machine which gives her a chance to watch A through the mirror as she exercised) I scrapped you on Orkut last night.
A : No baba, I didn’t see your scrap. I am telling you na you must’ve scrapped somebody else. (Obviously they have been having this discussion earlier)
B : I swear I scrapped you man. Your id is……. Isn’t it?
A : The id is right but I didn’t find your scrap. From morning I have been checking if you had. By the way what was the message?
B : I scrapped you at 2am (2 am???!!) from my granny’s place. I wrote blah blah blah.
A : Arrey! I didn’t get it yaar. How did you scrap me?
B : (by now B has stop pretence of working out and walks up to the adjacent excer –cycle to give A company) I visited your page and then scrapped you. (she offered helpfully)
A : Hmm you scrap me again ( looking completely lost as to the purpose of the whole conversation) B however was looking positively radiant at what appeared to be an opportunity to speak to A even if it had meant exchanging a few scrap words!
The conversation did not end there but it merely picked up when another guy joined in and the two guys started talking about their jobs and career leaving B out. But then she hung on refusing to be dismissed and at an opportune moment she managed to butt in an opinion of hers too.
This led me to think that the quest to search a mate indeed started with the serious business of flirting and required among other things a tough skin! Hats off to all “trying” girls and guys out there.
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