Three-Magical-Words Girl !!

I was totally exhausted with the trekking. My left leg was showing the toe* to my mouth for eating the junk and my mouth was enjoying its act done few hours ago. Not at all ashamed, rather the tongue (accomplice in crime) was also delighted I would say. So, finally the left leg gave up and the mind decided to take a rest, eyes wandered to find an empty bench. Luckily, it was just right there, well actually just 20-30 steps away that felt like 20-30 miles.


A girl was sitting right across me. She was wearing a white salwar and green kameez with a black shawl wrapped around. Could not see her face, it was almost perfectly hidden with the black shawl and only body part visible was "her beautiful beady eyes". My eyes which were gloomy moments ago, were dilated, tongue which was delighted is now speechless and heart almost had 2 minor heart attack (don't worry I have them pretty regularly).

She was also looking at me. There was some magic in her eyes which made me feel connected. Idea seems insane to a purposeful-confident-directed-integrated-sensible insaan like me but I was seriously thinking going up to her and says those three magical words to a complete stranger. The mind was doing all the probability calculations of a what-the-hell-do-u-think-of-you kind of reply. And it came up with an pessimistic figure of 99.9999% chance of her saying that. Mathematically there is a chance of 0.0001% but my not-so-good-at-mathematics heart read only the italic part of the report i.e. there-is-a-chance.

Only problem was that legs were enjoying their newly found rock-star status symbol and were refusing to go up to her even when the distance was mere 5 steps. After much cajoling and a promise of having a pedicure and massage afterwards they finally took those 5 steps. Here I was, standing in front of the lovely lady ready to say those three magical words. Face was worried for a possible (almost inevitable) outcome of being fiercely slapped. With heart beating fast, eyes looking southwards, fingers crossed I went to close to her and said it slowly with all sincerity of my heart.

Surprise, Surprise Surprise !!!
To my utmost surprise she also reciprocated and said "Jai Mata Di"


showing the toe*:: Phrase is from Sienfeld season one script. Showing the toe is more humiliating than showing a finger. I do not understand. Someone picks an arbitrary finger and shows it to you and you feel bad about it. It is just a finger. What does it mean? Why should I feel bad about it? I would feel worse if someone shows me the toe. Because it is not easy to show the toe. You got to have your shoe off, socks off, raise your leg and show it to other saying "Look at the toe buddy ". Now that's really insulting, isn't it?