Onida the great

It was just like any other day...mom clutching the remote hard !! It was just like any other day...the rest of us sitting like zombies watching the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law lashing out against each other !! It was just like any other day...only the Onida guys had other ideas.

A routine TV repair turned into a disaster - a blackout of all channels !! For a moment we were plunged into doom, not knowing what to do...it was like losing a dear member of the family...everyone sat helpless for the next 30 minutes.

I slowly started crawling like a dying tortoise towards the room...probably this was the right time to update my dying blog !! Mom decided to finally watch Munnabhai MBBS on a VCD (she once said she'll finish kitchen work and then come over to watch the movie, the kitchen work has continued since these many years). Dad was ecstatic, he roamed around R.T.Nagar searching for drains that overflowed, and garbage that garlanded the streets so that he could assign a few jobs to his welfare association guys. Brother and sister-in-law too joined in watching Munnabhai and Circuit sending everyone into a journey of laughter. Everyone seemed more cheerful, chirpy, lively.

We did not cry because a certain "Bhavana" in a mega-serial was being tortured by her husband's girlfriend. We did not worry because some guy in a stupid serial was being kidnapped for the nth time. We did not have to watch dad's spectacles reflecting the image of the TV screen showing the rise and fall of stock markets. Of course the Onida guys are coming tomorrow to make us into couch potatoes again. I wouldn't want to be too unhappy; but a day without T.V seemed so refreshing. Perhaps we should have a TVless day every year, or maybe we have it already. This post...i owe it to the Onida guy...thank you da !!