she finally brought up the "F" word!

She called me "irony deficient" the other day. All because i expressed my disgust at her bringing up the "F" word during a conversation.

Earlier in the day she had driven up to Boston from NYC and we had an awesome time walking around town, checking out my old haunts in the city and the live music scene. As one by one couples began to dance to the music, she asked me to follow her to the floor. It took me no time to settle into a series of dance moves that closely resembled the movements of a chicken surprised to have lost its head. And then later in the night, while sitting by a glass window in a local cafe, I cooed "I see a life for ourselves where only softest of the kisses would interrupt hours of cuddling as we lie in our bed like an offering to the gods of love". She let my sentence sink in while I expectantly looked at her for an equally romantic retort. However, it was here that she brought up the "F" word - as in Finances.

She took out a pen from her bag, picked up a nearby napkin and proceeded to jot down her estimate of our future monthly expenses on it. Clothes, cars, spa, food, pedicure, travel etc. She added it up to an estimated monthly expense total. I duly congratulated her on her math skills, even though i nearly peed in my pants at her high maintenance.

She proceeded to divide that total monthly expense by 4. She then wrote the resulting number 4 times on the napkin. She then drew one big circle around 3 of them and wrote her name on top of that circle. "With all due respect to your longing for life full of kisses and cuddling, this is how much i should be able to cover with my doctorly income. But you gotta cover the remaining 1/4th", she chewed out while looking in my eyes. "I think we should do where our strengths lie. I am good at predicting recessions. So let me manage our finances, while you do the earning part" was what i found myself uttering.

But i did wonder what had made her suddenly bring up money talk. And just then I saw an indian guy appear outside the cafe's glass window and make his celestial bollywood moves until he danced his away to the other end of the window and disappear. In between he stopped for a second to wink at me. "So its fukking ranjit who instigated all this", i thought to myself.

"For someone who swept me off my feet because of his online alpha male persona, you sure are irony deficient", she concluded our conversation