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Remember when?

For forgetful people like me and S, God has thankfully given enough reference points to remember our wedding date when we sit in our verdant garden, a good 5 yea....er... 15years later, reminiscing the good ol' days asking - which year did we get married darlin?

I am sure either of us could come up with the following:
1. Oh, the year Bin Laden was killed by the U.S. Forces
Re: Yeah? And which year was that?
2. The year Jayalalitha came to power with a trouncing victory?
Re: Don't tell me! Did we marry as early as the 1990s?
3. Ayyo! No baba, the year Mamata Banerjee became the CM of W. Bengal. The first lady CM.
Re: Hmmm. Was that in...?
4. Yeah...the year India won the World Cup in Cricket.
Re: Now you are confusing me. Surely not the 1980s?
6. Dear lord. Don't you remember even the Royal Wedding. Everybody was simpering over Katherine's dress and the dashing bald Prince. Surely you couldn't have forgotten that date?
Re: Actually I think I have. I do remember that she was wearing a virgin white, flowing lace Alexander Mc Queen dress designed by Sara Burton which had dainty flowers embroidered all over it with needles kept sharp by renewing them every 3 hours. I remember...yeah. But which year was it?
5. (Interrupts) You remember all of that, but not the wedding year? Ok Ok how about this? The year Kanimozhi went to jail.
Re: Was the year we got married?? Really? How could we? There must have been terrible unrest in Chennai.
6. Are you kidding me? It was all so peaceful.
Re: Why?
7. Refer point 2.
Re: You gave a point 2?
8. God give me patience! Leave it. Just leave it. Let's just say - "We got married, the year we got married."
Re: Huh?

The scary part of the above post is knowing that I would be the one giving the 'huh' responses with S pointing out all the reference points. By the way, why wouldn't one just come out and say the year, instead of giving reference points? One would think it was a 20 Questions game or something; not a simple romantic reminiscing of our complica...er...simple wedding.
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Anita said…
I can tell you that slightly over a year later, I cannot rem any event which happened in the year I got married, except that I got married.

But I do have a handy reverse reference since my passport had got renewed on the same date in an earlier year. Imagine one year, standing in the crowd in passport office. and in another in a wedding hall, all decked up..
June 16, 2011 at 12:23 PM
Jerina J said…
Tell me about it Ani :) How things change! As far as I am concerned, this is definitely a wedding to remember, reference or not.
June 24, 2011 at 10:02 PM
Sonal said…
great read jeri :)
lot of big events already in this half year...!
July 13, 2011 at 2:57 PM
Jerina J said…
You bet Sonal. Just to tax my brain cells ;)
August 7, 2011 at 11:25 AM
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