Attention Grabbing

Attention grabbing is a lousy character trait. Some people are simply experts at it. You get to see people behave differently under different circumstances. They make funny noises and try to become popular. This is how I thought people behave differently.

• In a train/bus: If you have a group of teenage girls sitting around you in the train, you had it. There will be discussions like, "I think Terrance dances so well, that sweep scoop skeep step that he does is simply awesome!" and then the others reply, "Yeah!" and when there's a talk about a over zealous participant in a reality show, they all in chorus, say "How cuuuuuuuute". There will be discussions on "Agale janam mohe bitiya hi keejo" and so on. By the time they sleep, your station would have arrived.

• In a supermarket: Pot bellied men regardless of their age, wear a 40 waist size jeans and speak to their wife and kids in English. They will say things like, "What are you doing rey BETA, No rey BETA, Don't buy that rey BETA," etc. in a voice so loud that it can break a 2 mm thick glass. He addresses his wife saying, "Gullu, what ra, what is this, I told you no ra." This noise is maximum when poeple are around and suddenly when he comes out, you see him speak in Telugu/Tamil/Hindi/etc. and he takes out a Gutkha packet from his packet and eats it. 

•   In office: Let's call them slaves. When the boss enters the main door, their volume rises. "I have sent you that e-mail, have you checked it?" and when the other person asks, "Which mail?", He calmly sits down back into his place because the boss isn't listening. At the cafeteria, when the boss is sitting two tables away, he has things to say like, "I think this product will do wonders for our company", "We have some amazing initiatives coming up." or if it is an IT company, he will discuss Java code and how to apply on some shady application.     

• At marriages: We all have aunts who speak louder than a chines mobile phone's speaker and make a fuss about everything. Especially at marriages, they say things like, "Nobody cared for us," "Only this much?","There is no fan", "No salt in Sambar" and so on. There are some uncles who say similar things like, "What bloody arrangement, nothing they did," etc. And then there is the footnote, "In my son's marriage, they gave everyone something. They arranged for cars, they took good care, etc." Then suddenly, he is given the charge of managing the proceedings and is ultimately responsible for life-long memories of conflicts on that day.
  
  
  
  - Deepak Karamungikar