Advice, Is it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok I found this whole damn thing sooo hilarious when my mom was telling me about all this.. And I thought I should blog about this and find out what you all think of this and make out about it..

It all started off with my cousin sis and her husband and child coming down to the place where my parents are staying. My niece is joining medicine and her college or university ( I still haven't figured out how it is called ) is in the same city where my parents are put up right now.. So thats adding another doctor in the family now..

Anyways both my cousin and her hubby are teachers and since am going to do a dialogue play between her and her daughter, so lets just name them as Mr and Mrs X and my Niece as N.

So they reached Chennai , thats where my parents are residing right now.. and Mr and Mrs X came from my native place along with N.
They checked out the college N was going to study and finalised everything like paying the fee's, the hostel and gave the college my parents details to be her local guardian so that she could leave the hostel and stay with them during the weekend and so on so forth.

After that they went for shopping things for her that she might need and came home.
So later on in the night after dinner.. Mom , Mrs X and N were sitting and talking.. Mr X and dad were in deep discussion about Left with drawing support from the government and all that..

This was after my conversation with them all and N letting me know where she got her medicine seat and how excited she was about the whole thing and she showed me all her shopping that she did.. and was making plans for us to go about places when ever I got back home.

So the conversation ( it seems ) went on like this.

Mrs X : N , now you are a big girl ( note the amount of sweet talk which is been given ) and you should act like a big girl and be responisble and shouldnt trouble them ( them being my parents.. considering she's already been put in the hostel i dont get what trouble she will make my parents.. and my parents being my parents would have been more happy to have her at home everyday than the occasional weekends.. since there is nobody else apart from them .. anyways )

N : Yes mom. I know you have been telling me this for ages.. I know. Relax. ( Looking at my mom ) , Look Ammai ( means Aunty ) , Mom is always like this..


And my mom was like Common Mrs X , N is a smart girl . And am sure she 'll be fine . You all had a long day. Lets go off to sleep.


Now this conversation is in the bedroom now and continues as follows.


Mrs X : N are you asleep .


N : Not exactly , Why ?


Mrs X : See we cant always come and drop you and pick you up from here to come home . So you would have to travel alone in the train and sometimes in the buses. So you have to be very careful of how you behave.


N : Hnnnn ( Blank am sure.. poor thing didnt realise what was coming up for her )


Mrs X : You must cover yourself up all the time. Just wear Salwars and pin up your duppattaa( I just felt after hearing this that I was back into my Engg College with all its dumb rules ). Dont wear jeans . Incase if the lab's ask you to wear pants and stuff then wear it only for that classes , dont wear it outside . ( whatttt ?????? )


N : Whatt?


Mrs X : Yes and dont speak much to anybody in the class. Especially guys. They are not nice.( I wonder how did she know that her class guys are bad.. ). Dont go out with anybody even girls(??????) .Some of the students might be day scholars.. and they might invite you to their place. Don't go and if you are visiting your aunt you dont have to bring them along to their place.
My mom was like that's fine am used to having anila's friend's around.. So it shouldn't be a problem if N brings along her friends . It will be nice for her and it will be a good change as well.


Mrs X : Now another thing. If you are travelling make sure you travel in the ladies cupa in the train. If you don't get that , travel only on the upper berth so that no guys can touch you .

At this point , My mom actually thought my cousin was crazy and asked her to stop worrying and quit talkking to N like that. She shut up and then went off to sleep. Just to start it up again first thing in the morning.

My mom was soo astounded by the fact that Mrs X was actually talking like this and advicing her daughter this way. She was like you can be cautious and advice her..But this is ridiculous. Its like unnecessarily chaining and restricting your child and the child will definitly go in search of some freedom.

My mom is actually waiting to see how things will be when they come back next month to drop her off for her Medicine Studies. I hope all is well for N and no more advice session which I very much doubt.

I dont understand what is there so much to be worried about. She has already stayed away before for two years and that was away from her home in an hostel. And this time its no different. Then Why ? Is it because she's a big girl or is it because she's in a different state as from where her parents are residing right now ? Or is it that my cousin is just trying to be a bit protective about N by giving her so many rules to follow???
What do you think???