Dialogue with an Aunty

Todays Goal: Provide background information
Current Thought: It's funny how things change - i'll have to write another blog about how perspectives change at these events
Optimism: It's the weekend! YEAH!

So we have these youth conferences. Really they're just about girls meeting boys and boys meeting girls. They even do speed-dating in the modern version of these (yes we have become modern in the last 5 years!). I remember the first time I went to one of these it was in Toronto over a long weekend. It could have been a lot of fun - I suppose - if you didn't have so many Aunties coming to ask you if you found a boy you liked.

This is how the conversation went (remember to add an Indian accent and read it in your native tongue whatever language you speak!)

Aunty: Hello dear – how are you enjoying yourself at this function?
You: Fine Aunty, you and the other organizers planned this very well.
Aunty: That’s nice dear, so….have you met anyone who you like yet?
Aunty (to herself): I hope she’s found her husband amongst these wonderful boys
You: No Aunty, I have not
Aunty: You know dear daughter, we are here to help you and that everything you tell me is in strict confidence right?
You: Yes Aunty, of course I know that!
You (to yourself): I don’t trust Aunty A or B or any aunties for that matter. Not that I have anything to trust them with.
Aunty: Please daughter, let me know if I can help in anyway. Don’t you think that boy over there is cute? He’s a doctor you know!
You: No aunty…I’m just here to have some fun
You (to yourself): Why do aunties always play the doctor card? He’s not even a doctor, he’s just majoring in Biology and calling himself pre-med!
Aunty: Dear, remember that this is an important event – meeting your partner should be a priority
You: Yes Aunty..I will talk to more people…thanks Aunty
Aunty: Remember daughter; I am here to help you. Here is my cell number you can call me whenever you want.
You: (to yourself) These gatherings are just about the popular hot guy and the pretty bubbly outgoing girl hooking up! And obviously every guy wants to hook up with her too! Then there is the cool kids that form a clique and you end up feeling like a wallflower the wholetime. Thank god I have some friends to hang out with. I’m never going to meet anyone at these functions.
You (smiling to yourself): Thank god I’m not old and desperate!!! I have plenty of time to worry about this later! Ooops I better not let Aunty see me smile, she might think I’ve found someone I like! Ooh there comes the hot dude – I don’t get what everyone sees in him!


Well thats the typical story at these things. I had one more funny and insightful thing to share..a story I had typed up here and lost when my window decided it wasn't responding anymore. I'll have to share it another time! Keep tuned!