DARLING, YOUR STOMACH IS JUST A SMALL BALLOON
“All you need is love. But, a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” Charles M. Schulz T he evening before last, my wife I had been to R-City Mall. She wanted to pick some outfits for her Yoga sessions. So, we landed up at the Decathlon outlet at this mall. By the time the shopping got over, it was 8.45 p. m. While waiting there for madam to finish with her choices, my mind was running very wild: “What would we have at the food outlets? Which late-night movie shall we watch?” I was dying to have a big-fat chicken burger at the McDonald’s, and was assuming, that my wife would love to have her favourite Fillet-O-Fish. Perhaps, she would love to watch the late show of ‘Jurassic Park’ at the INOX… I had checked the timings: 9.45 p.m. But, I hadn’t checked it with my wife. When I, finally, did, I heard this: “No way. I have cooked for the dinner very nice-and-big (read, ‘very expensive’) pomfrets for you. We are going to have dinner at home.” I sulked. “Come on,...