Saturday, August 23, 2008

first date with condom

Buying a condom, I think has to be the first litmus test for a guy to have sex. It’s the first hurdle that people need to cross to have satisfy their basic instinct (Sharon Stone remembered). At least that is what we seem to have learned over the years watching ads of Nirodh condom on DD. ‘Apni Suraksha Apne Haath’ may seem to be a good punch line to be read but it takes a lot of guts to buy one condom packet. That is what I realized when I had to buy one….

I happened to be at Baroda for a friends weeding (one of my rommmie in Bombay). Nine of us went to the marriage. This bunch included 2 gals also (life gets very boring without them)….

Dunno how did I landed up in this task when some of my other eager friends always did such tasks….it was me in Huja (Mr. AA Ahuja) who decided to get up this important thing for our friend…

Our test started with both of us trying to find ways to avoid this chick called Swati from coming along with us. We had planned to move away from the wedding site citing the reason of having coffee outside but did not knew our sweet friend Swati also had intentions to have this coffee along with us. Thanks to the rain gods that we could avoid her towards our pursuit to get the condom…

The walk to the medical store did not seem to end and that too in the rains of Baroda with all the dirt on the streets getting on to our trousers & we at one time feeling that Baroda people are very healthy so they don’t require any medicine to get out of illness… a half hour walk taking us to our destination…

Buying condom…
We landed at the wrong time at the store as we saw an aunty outside the store buying some medicine…we decided to move forward to find a stall serving bhurji…which both… me & Huja could not resist to avoid…and then we were at the medical store to get our desired thing…

At the store…
Its probably like appearing for CAAT entrance exam before joining the IIM’s….people fear the entrance more, forget the main exam… Huja taking up the task of asking for the condom. We never imagined that it is a mere commodity for the store keeper and we should ask it to him keeping that in mind. Huja with all his courage moved on to the store keeper…2-3 people seemed in the store…with Huja daring to ask the most elderly of them in the store… ‘chachha condom….’

With Huja’s question I turned my face towards earth…dunno what I was thinking at that moment but felt all the 3 guys in the store were observing us both and might even be thinking what these guys are upto...wearing good clothes, buying condom they seem to have a pleasurable evening ahead…
To our surprise the store keeper asked us…… which flavour????
It was like facing a bouncer when we were expecting a straight one…for a moment huja seemed to have fazed at the chachaa’s question…but he gained his confidence in a moment to say ‘koi bhi do chachaa’!!!
Comes a googlee from the Chachaa…and he tries to sell an entire ‘family pack’ sort of condom pack to us (Durex to be specific) ….n we are here asking to give anything not more than a sachet that could be easily slipped into our friends pockets in the rush of marriage… chachaa showing us some more of his condom packets and we looking more at the cover with nudity at its extreme on them…n trying to get the smallest pack apart from looking at what goes on to make a condom or at its price for that matter..
We got the desired sachet containing 3 condoms and we moved on from the medical store with our mission accomplished….sach mein buying a condom requires some guts !!!!