Have been going to this Doc for a while. Due to a checkup due for Mom, I took her for the same at a designated time.
As I open the door, the good Doc pipes up : Madam, you have to talk to this director about Apoorva Diagnostics and your experience.
Me: Huh !! Why would I need to talk to the Director ?
Doc : No you just have to since he has to know. I had told him that I would ask you to talk to him.
With trembling fingers, he dials the number and makes me talk to the Director who patiently hears what to say and then says
God is looking down. You know.. people will get what they deserve.
Me : If God was looking down, why bother with me ?? I am a drop of a drop in the scheme of things. 
Oh and by the way, I am talking about Dr Praveen and I am also told about “Dr Cage” who are notorious for diagnosing wrongly. Beware !!!
Now, on to my mom’s check up. My mom patiently waits for her doc to clean her ear.
Doc ( with trembling fingers) : Sister, ” bisi neer kuri..” (which means get me some hot water)
Time passes while the doctor small talks with me.
Me : Being polite. How is your daughter. I had seen the girl at your house the other day. She has grown so lovely.
Doc : Aghast !! That’s not my daughter. That’s my watchman’s daughter.
Me : (confused) But I definitely remember your daughter the last time I had come with my husband for checkup.
Doc : Oh that one.. !! That one is in UK. That is from the first one. I have a 43 days old baby from my other one.
Me : (slightly taken aback with the terminology but not surprised) Oh !! I say.
Pause …. ( I am wondering what next)
Doc : ( getting impatient and dialing for the sister ) Where is the “bisi neer” Sister ? I did not ask hot water to take bath. I need it for my patient.
The hot water in a bowl immediately is served by a nurse.
Doc : Well don’t you have sense to send me lukewarm water. The water is too hot for me to take bath even..
Me : (Now I am suspecting that something is off here. He had asked for hot water not lukewarm water. He usually does not talk that much. )
Mum: Oblivious to what is being conversed, looks askance at me with signals with her eyes as to what next. I reassure her to sit tight and explain that he will wash her ears.
Doc : (while he is washing) You know the first one divorced me and I married another one from NE.
Me : (politely) Uh huh !!! (all the while thinking this is overload of information which I don’t need)
Doc : ( elaborately going on to explain the faults of the first one while I “uh huh”…. My second wife’s place.. all the men just know how to dope and drink.. nothing else is important.
Me: ( getting a little defensive about NE) well not all of them while he insists its so. I leave it at that.
Doc : ( as if waking from a doze) how old are you ?
Me : N yrs
Doc : What you are “N” yrs old and you don’t have a baby. Why why why ? You know how dangerous it is to wait… and ALL THAT BLAH. (for 3 minutes till I am ready to whack him)
Me : (Squirming and totally embarrassed having a stranger going on like that) yeah ummm… well you know how it is..
Doc : No no … I will personally lock you and your husband in a resort.. no no in a houseboat in Kerala… and the next time you visit me you have to give me good news..
Me : ( GAWK) ARRGHHHHHHH !!! SAVE ME… ( I was like WHAT WAS WRONG WITH HIM !!! )
And if that was not bad.. he suddenly turns to my mum and tells her how she should force me to do something about it. And blah blah blah..
Thank God for her blissful senility, my mum serenely smiles it off.. saying… yes yes sure sure ( later on asking me what that was all about )
Me : Please doc, let this go. I am sure I will do everything that you have said under advisement and will get back to you. Thanks so much…
And I rush out….
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA…..
Why is it that my status brings out the sirens in stranger’s eyes.. ? I am happy being what I am .. let me be.. When I ask for advice tell me… GRRR
Now, I really felt bad about referring to the wife in numbers.. Sigh.
Either the doc was doped or he was going crazy … I don’t know. I just hope he does not get on my case..
Next time, will send Rocks.. let them discuss some manly silly things..
Yeah Mercury is retrograde… so all communication will go haywire.. and there I have it.. So on to another day..
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