Unwanted Pregnancy

Dont be surprised at the title for this one. This one is in the memory of a fundo Holi I had last
Sunday-4th Mar'07.

It started off as usual with me getting up and wandering about not knowing what to do. MP, a friend from school, called up and I went to meet him near Montfort school. I walked down and he came in his car. It was good catching up with him and we talked about our present jobs, what happened in college, etc. After that he pulled out of his pocket a small box containing 'Chandan' and we marked each other's forehead with a 'Tilak'. After that it was time to go, or so we thought. The dude locked the door of his car with the car keys in it. Wow! We ended up calling his dad for the duplicate key and waiting for about an hour on the road for him. And when his dad came it was finally time to head back!

I came back home, only to find out that S had left for Masi's place and they were waiting for me to join them for Holi. Spotting an opportunity- I decided to take the plunge and started immediately for Masi's place and was outside her house in the next 10 mins, with the Gulal and another grainy paint I picked on my way.

S, SN, UN and MS were at the gate. SN and UN's faces were colored in Red already and I joined the party and ran amock for the next 15-20 mins rubbing gulal on everyone's face, dumping it in their hair and using some of the grainy colour with my spit to dye SN's hair. It was great fun and I was at the receiving too with people throwing balloons on my head and a lot of colour everywhere.

Then it dawned on me- I had to go to office the next day as a 'Client'. Shit. I dashed for the loo to run the colour off me quickly before it dried and matters getting worse. And everyone else followed. We used 'besan' and soap to try and get as clean as possible. We spent the next 3-4 hrs trying to clean our red, green, and yellow faces.

So I felt it was akin to an unwanted pregnancy- a small time of fun and a long and painful price to pay! lolz

P.S.: Just as a foot note- MB and my families met later that day and all went ok.
Happy Holi!