The mango season is back with a bang and so are the mango pluckers going around with their paraphernalia eyeing mango trees for the crop they are yielding which means another day of earning their (mango pluckers) living.
So I was not surprised to see the familiar face of the mango plucker making an appearance one early morning to go about his job and creating a ‘job’ subsequently for us, which meant making the environment conducive for turning the raw mangoes into ripe ones (making room for this is no joke with space constraint).
The mango plucker and his helper finished downing the crop with utmost dexterity in less than an hour transferring the same to the corner reserved for it in our house. As he was taking leave after collecting his booty, he scrutinized me from top to bottom and appearing surprised said, ‘amma, you seem to be all set to go out, is ‘ayya’ also coming with you?’. I shook my head saying it was only I who had to attend a meeting. His reaction was one of shock and disbelief and I didn’t know how to react to his next words, ‘amma, are YOU going to a meeting?’
n.meera raghavendra rao
Just Li'Es 
Poor chap, he hasn’t heard of things like Househusbands! We have still a long way to go towards “equality” in this country!
Not exactly so in this case .The man never expected a home maker like me, to be attending a meeting .He probably was under the impression only women working outside their homes (those who have nine to five jobs) have meetings to attend!
I a quite sure Raghu, Meeras “Better Half” is definetly not a house husband and I am sure he has his wifes permission to say so. Sorry Raghu but you are a very nice chap!
WE have a similar problem with the Bnana trees which keep producing hundreds fruits.The first time e gave all our neighbours but when it started to produce like Rabbits brood we had call an Emergency meeting and so on. We had to lug the whole caboodle to a chap in R K Mutt Road who saw “Bakhra” (sor of a lamb to the slaughter) in my wife paid her small money instead of what she was expecting.
The trees sometimes fell down and this created a ” whie ant Termite attck on our window and then into our cupboards and so on. We had to spend thousands to get rid of the Termites and pay a fellw to cut down the trees. Te trees have started growing again so does any one have a Quickfix for this?