Newspaper Fights!!
We look forward to nothing else with so much eagerness, the way we look forward to that lonesome man who comes rushing on his bicycle with a bundle tied on the backseat of his cycle every morning.
I wonder if he ever sleeps at nite coz he is the first one to get up every morning.... Yeah! Yeah! I am talking about the newspaper delivery boy.
Every household(especially in India) waits for him for different reasons... Infact every member of the family has his/her own reason for reading the newspaper... Some men take it to the loo coz they can't answer the nature's call without reading thru the newspaper...the kids in the house look forward to the kids-supplement... the teenagers of the house look forward to the magazine sections...Women wait for the masala stories and Woman Specials... and this triggers
THE NEWSPAPER FIGHT....
This fight is going on from the day newspapers were introduced... Every morning the warriors get up to catch hold of their bait... so they beat the others and win it all ;)
hehe... I know this sounds weird... but then I have been watching this for years...
We have always been a joint family and we all fight for newspapers... Dad is an early-riser so usually he wins it...sometimes he purposely hides the paper on a weekend so we actually don't lazy around the whole day with the paper spread all over the bed... ;)
My bhai-log are a step ahead... they play the snatching game... so u have to purposely hold tightly to the paper while u r reading it...coz u may never knw when the predator comes to claim his target... lol
Sometimes the trophy(newspaper) gets all broken and torn up... coz the warriors try to snatch it... pull it and at the end of it all they usually lose it ;) ;)
Property, Job and Education supplements have no demand so they are all time available... Poor thingies!!
Gossip supplements and magazines are a HIT... no matter wat...
Once the scores are settled and if the trophy is still living to tell the story... the PRAJAA gets to hold it... ;) which means me and mom get to read it... else... Happy and Rustam know how to use it to their advantage and play TUG-OF-WAR with them... :D
Have you ever indulged in the newspaper fight?? ;) ;) Bolo...Bolo...
29 comments:
me too from a Joint family and I can understand ur feelings..!
But Y2A being the most sincere and polite boy in this world, I read the newspaper only when my parents are done with it... :)
I used to read it backwards.. sports page first.. but nw I chupke se go to Page 3.. where i can see sumthing soothing to eyes! :)
hahhahah!! poor harshi darling..
:)
thank god i read the english daily which comes just for me.. so no newspaper fights for me..!!yay!!
lol! it was a fun read!! as always!
dun u ask me about tht.. i m irritated the most, wen i am readin the paper n someone- generally my bro starts reading some coloumn aloud from the same page sneaking inside :D
and even more wen he is looking to a daav to snatch or standing on my head askin for the same :D
great post..
im OBSESSED with my dear newspaper. ghar pe, mom n dad read it first since they get up early and then i read it..i used to be obsessed with reading it before my sis :D but now she isnt here :| so no fights :(
hostel mei the fuckiest (hah, i dont care if its a word or not) part is my roomie takes it in the loo to read it first coz she has a habit BUT THEN SHE RETURNS IT ALL WET TO ME X-( its just water, not susu or anything, but its sooooooo irritating coz i dont get to read it before i go to college since she takes half an hour in the loo :( and i read the paper after im back from college (since the paper is dry by then)
felt nice to crib :D
bahut lamba comment ho gaya kya :-ss :P
ur bhai log...sigh :D ;) :P
Hmm..my mom n dad had fights over who'll read d newspaper first in d early dez of their marraige :D n i became a newpaper-reader since klas 5.but there are no fights now coz the family reads 4 different papers now..n the newspaper vendor is quite happy about it :)
Newspaper Fight haan dats a first.... luckily i share my newspaper with only 2 roommates of mine and with 3 supplements daily sharing is not a problem u c!
yeaaaaaaaaaa... totally though not in the recent years...
the paper goes through some tough times before it gets read :P
kewl one... take care da... cheers...
I care to read Page 3 and then sports wale page and agar kuch important news hui toh woh ..bas ..uskey baad jokes, quotes and sometimes Sudukos and crosswords :D
yes and i had so many fights ;)
Cant be less agreed..
Me and papa used to fight for Sudoku column...Those were the dayzz
he he he...
ahaaa!!! that sounds interesting to me..coz haven't never seen such a fight :(..
that was a funny read Harshitha coz we are never into it..!!
coz in ma home everyone else read the Telugu newspaper and i read The Hindu so theres no one who sees my paper atleast...!!!!
but it must so good to have such a fight everyday....nice read dear,...!!!
i am gonna do the post that you asked for...'About me'...vey soon u can expect it in ma blog...so dont miss ma blog in he near future ok..!!!
I wish I had younger sister.
newspaper??? hmmm suna suna sa lag raha hai
I really miss old days spent back home.:(
Nice post :)
you've very well portrayed the joint fmly...I liked "the fight" all over...humorous!
But I never had such fight...coz I never did the newspaper reading except once in a while...(I sound so strange, do I?) I just couldn't digest the too-much-politics and too-much-gossip. I used to be last person to handle "the trophy" and leisurely glance thru it...
Anyways keep up ur gud writing!
i always fought for the sports section ...
memories :)
www.chronicwriter.com
for me, no newspaper fight at home, because:
1) Not a joint family.Mom dad hv diff interests so they read different sections at the same time.
2)I'm home twice in a year,so whenever I have to read, tht wud be late morning when it is generally free...so as such never seen newspaper fights..
mazze aate honge isme waise, nai!!
I'm from a joint family as well, and I remember the long wait I had to endure on holidays to get hold of the paper. I wasn't foolish enough to try and tug it out of Didiya's hands :D
Never had the tug-of-war situation though, sounds like fun! Especially if you throw in participants like Rustam and Happy in the competition... nice one :)
Keep writing, Cheers...
nice post. we dnt really have newspaper fight. here its subscribed but no one reads. :| i get damn bored reading newspaper. it timez i solve cross wrd :P
Good one,Harshita :-)
I've seen this fight at my home too! Nice post!
I like to solve sudoku.i wait for it..and 2nd page :P :P
even thou i hv not seen these types of fight at my home..but seen this all scenes at my uncles home..:D
oh its happened every so often!thankfully my bro is not in India anymore, else it used to be my dad, my bro and me fighting for the newspaper. these days i read the newspaper at the end of the day or at work to avoid any newspaper fight at home. :D
lol, sounds interesting. i wish i lived in a joint family too :(
oh ya...i agree...thats a usual thing at our home :)
Its a routine in my life..Wud end up grumbling al day,if I never got it delivered before I was up..That is one reason,I hate kerala these days and love MADRAS.. :D
Nikhil
Yes we fight bcz Madhur always kept newspaper in loo itself after reading...which irritates me... n we all fight...including mom bas she cannot hv breakfast without newspaper
Cheers:)
Thanks to the e-newspaper thingie... news paper fights at my place have reduced considerably. Its only on Sundays when the ritual of newspaper snatching or i may put- 'apni baari malna paper padne ke liye' takes place. As a child when i used to try reading the paper holding it in my hands (which was the most tuff task- my hands n arms being small and timy i could hardly manage the newspaper) i would just wait for that day when i would also read the daily paper with poise and elegance (OMG!!!) Alas... I hardly get time to give this pleasure to myself now... but i still manage it on my PC screen..!!
something waiting for you down at my blog....cheers!
Post a Comment