mohawk alert!

I HAVE A MOHAWK BLONDE FOR A NEIGHBOUR!!!
there! i had to use uppercase (i hate them caps) to express this appropriately!
now how often does this happen? no, really! how often does this happen, especially if you are living in india?! that too maharashtra?!

listen, i am cool about this. i can handle mohawks... its just the improbability of this happening that zaps me! the first time that i saw her, she was striding down the road, she almost caused a traffic jam! fat uncles and paan dribbling autodrivers stopped, turned around to look at her!
if you are a woman, you know how this feels, it really doesnt take much to get a man's attention... but if you are a mohawk, you got eyeballs at you from every corner!

the next time i saw her, i almost dropped the tomato i was chopping. my kitchen overlooks hers!i needed to make sure she was a mohawk and not just some woman with a yellow towel arranged on her head... so i observed her from the corner of my eyes, while i chopped the onions (try this, it needs some expertise though)... mohawk? check!

the next day, i saw a young, curly haired (very cute) man pottering around the same kitchen(this just seems to be getting better).
"must be her boyfriend", i said to the husband. how do i know he was her boyfriend? well, how many indian men do you know, who marry blonde mohawks, huh? most indian men marry big bosomed, long, black haired, docile things that make alu puri and chole. (what a prejudiced chump this woman is?!)

i have never seen the two together in the kitchen. one day its curly and the next its the mohawk. some domestic arrangement this!

i have never been very lucky with neighbours or co-passengers. i have always had loud, nosy aunties who ask embarassing questions with big saucer eyes, squawling babies or moustached, oily men as co-passengers on long train journeys. my neighbours have mostly been the unsociable types that nod at you quickly and jump and shut their doors behind them with such alacrity that you wonder if you ever saw them in the first place.

so this is all very refreshing indeed.
suddenly i am cool with cooking dinner more often.
the husband's been wondering why i have turned so domesticated and gharelu all of a sudden!
maybe i will make alu puri and chole just to complete the illusion.