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getting letters...

Posted: Jun 13, 2008 Fri 07:29 am     Views: 362    Interacts: 20

The other day this friend's mom mentioned how she would get all excited when the postman would show up at her door in Pakistan. It meant the possibility of some magazine or some letter for her. I told her I couldn’t relate to her excitement since I never got any letters. "Never? You mean you never got a letter from a friend in Pakistan?!" I thought about it and then i remembered the incident that occurred during the summer of my 16th year on this planet:

I had developed a huge crush (surprise surprise!) on this girl who lived a few streets away. I did not know how to contact her, but I did know her home address. And so I started sending small letters to her. Everyday I would impatiently wait for the postman, hoping for him to deliver her response. Then one day, to my astonishment, I saw her standing at our gate and ringing the door bell. But more importantly, to my utter horror, she was clutching the whole pile of my letters that I had written to her and which she purportedly intended to hand to an elder in the house. Fortunately I saw her before she saw an elder. Needless to say, I've never in my life begged a girl as much as I begged that day.

And that, in a nutshell, had been my experience with the postal system in Pakistan.


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Posted by shobig_sifar on Friday June 13, 2008 08:37 pm
atif payee, why blame the postal system though? IMO, if anything, this incident testifies the efficiency of Pakistan post, dunnit?
Posted by shobig_sifar on Friday June 13, 2008 08:30 pm
atif payee, why blame the postal system though? IMO, if anything, this incident testifies the efficiency of Pakistan post, dunnit?
Posted by shobig_sifar on Friday June 13, 2008 08:29 pm
hurricane: he threw what was available..a 9volt.

It connected.

There were sparks.

hahahahaaaaa...cool.
Posted by hurricane on Friday June 13, 2008 12:35 pm
Beej,

sorry, I mistakenly refreshed the page...and the comment got submitted twice. I'm not implying that you are a raging homo nymphomaniac...simply suggesting that there is something rotten in amsterdam :)
Posted by hurricane on Friday June 13, 2008 12:33 pm
Beej,

for an old man, the mention of boys sure gets your viagra going? hmmmm.....

Posted by hurricane on Friday June 13, 2008 12:32 pm
Beej,

for an old man, the mention of boys sure gets your viagra going? hmmmm.....

Posted by cliftonbridge on Friday June 13, 2008 12:32 pm
so can you bj ...dont fret !
Posted by BJ2 on Friday June 13, 2008 12:03 pm
[I am different than other boys]

Of course you are, atif 2! And now, thanks to California, you can even marry them! (T)
Posted by atif2 on Friday June 13, 2008 11:01 am
[It connected.

There were sparks.]

hahahaha! it did connect, but not in the way your cousin had intended
Posted by hurricane on Friday June 13, 2008 10:58 am
a cousin of mine, in true paindu fashion, and according to the norms of his mohallah, used to toss used batteries at his objects of desire. One day, having run out of the thin AAA batteries...he threw what was available..a 9volt.

It connected.

There were sparks.

The girl immediately limped to his house and complained.

The chitrol my cousin got that day from his older brother...was nuclear :)
Posted by atif2 on Friday June 13, 2008 10:52 am
hurricane, tossing a rock would have been a good option, except that "I am different than other boys" was my main selling point to her in my letters
Posted by hurricane on Friday June 13, 2008 10:31 am
Teefay,

This was funny. The good thing is that she didn't send her brother or father....then the begging would have included a chitrol :)

Why didn't you just tie your letter to a rock and toss it at her (when she showed up on the terrace), like every regular mujnoo?
Posted by cliftonbridge on Friday June 13, 2008 10:25 am
bj you seem to have unparalleled insight into sameling attraction stuff ...is this why you flit over his ilogs like a must parwana?
Posted by BJ2 on Friday June 13, 2008 09:44 am
As the old saying goes....

...the "lady" protesteth too much!

Posted by BJ2 on Friday June 13, 2008 09:43 am
Bridge, one of the surest signs of latent same-ling attraction is the propensity to react in a knee-jerk mode of denial as soon as anybody makes any references to those characteristics.
Posted by atif2 on Friday June 13, 2008 09:16 am
cliffy boy, since i am a proud heterosexual man, i would rather die than pretend to be a homosexual

i am sure you as a normal heterosexual man can relate to this
Posted by BJ2 on Friday June 13, 2008 09:09 am
Bridge, that was such an unkind cut! Did you have to be so sly about it, too?!!
Posted by cliftonbridge on Friday June 13, 2008 08:30 am
funny ! but inquiring minds want to know ... why didnt you just tell her you were writing to her brother ?
Posted by atif2 on Friday June 13, 2008 08:09 am
beej, i think you are posting this comment on a wrong ilog :)

but then again, you somehow copied this comment from somewhere and are just itching to paste it as your own

once a plagiarist...
Posted by BJ2 on Friday June 13, 2008 07:40 am
Clearly, that trauma left a mark on yoyr life - as displayed from your incessant abusive behavior towards the chowk ladies. It probably also explains your same-ling cravings!

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