The Nitpicking Clan

Without any notable exceptions, most of my relatives fall into a category of people who are never easily impressed. Especially so while attending weddings. This is one scenario which makes them all uniformly hyper-critical. Whatever be the shamelessly ostentatious venues for those series of unecessary ceremomies spread over a week, whatever be the various flashy finery the bride the groom and their guests are dressed in, whatever be the innumerable courses of food and desserts served, whatever be the music and entertainment arangements, whatever be the hopelessly outdated or sickeningly in-fashion mandap and shamiana decorations, or flower displays, etc. etc. these guys are all singularly unimpressed, unentertained, unsatiated.

Most of them attend these dos to note shortcomings, find faults, nitpick and criticise, and one wedding would be fodder enough for malicious maligning for the rest of the year, even at the slightest remotest reminder of the event long gone by, they would come back to discussing it with renewed enthusiasm, and fresh criticisms of newer points and perspectives somehow left unanalysed in all talks hitherto.

"Did you see what kind of catering arrangements Sharma Aunty had made for Bela's mehndi raat? Too much salt in the food."

"And did you see what she was wearing, these days even class three clerks make their daughters dress better in their weddings."

"And what noodle shoodle things they served for dinner? They just bought some seviyaan and made it salty and call it chinese food."

"Arrangements were not up to the mark at all. I dont like to stand in a line for food, am I some kind of a qaidi?"

"How could they allow the whiskey to get over after 5 days of celebrations and continuous guzzling? They just dont know how to take care of guests. Its all so embarassing. Inki shaadiyon mein toh jaana hee nahi chahiye."

"We thought if we dont attend, yeh log mind karr jayenge, thats why we just came to say hello shello to them, but who had thought it would be so much of takleef. For them we even cancelled our Australia trip which the kids were so much looking forward to, and this is how we are treated in return, its the limit. We got only half the air-fare refunded, its not that I'm complaining about the money lost, its just that my children were really sad, you know its the fourth time such a holiday to Australia is being cancelled, the last three times also happened for relatives' weddings. All said and done, I feel even if they are terribly organised we have to attend weddings, after all if we dont attend their weddings, who will come to attend our children's weddings"

Its a Funny bunch I have been blessed with.