I try not to go out mid-week too much because I’ve reached the age where I feel late nights mess up my next work day.
But it was the Crab & Wine festival at Mahesh, Juhu.
So there we were when suddenly he brings it up:
“Do you remember our pact?”
My eyebrows are up. I shake my head, no.
I recall it all when he mentions the Friends episode where Rachel & Phoebe both make pacts to marry Joey if they weren’t married at a certain age. I smile, remembering how many of us had made our own pacts after that episode aired.
And here I was sitting, with my pact maker. I’d last seen him four years ago, but I remember it all clearly now - if neither of us were married by 30, we’d marry each other.
“No, no, it was 35“
I say loudly and very confidently.
Hoping, God wouldn’t punish me for this white lie.
Wondering, if could get away with it again if I met him in another four years?
Shuddering at the thought that I may actually even need to.
Thinking, “two proposal-like ‘Friends’ references by two guys in the same week”, how weird is that?!
Meanwhile, the restaurant gives us complimentary white wine, which we refuse, as I don’t drink and as he was driving. Never mind, the crabs are to die for.
We order some more, enjoying it all tremendously; crabs and gossip about old friends.
Tags: Crabs, Food, Friends, Gossip, Lies, Mahesh-Lunch-Home, Mumbai-Restaurants, Pacts, Proposals, Wine
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October 18th, 2007 at 11:46 pm
“The Wierdo with the halo around his head and a forked tongue”! Damn!! how “WEIRD” can things get neways??
Hello Melody
October 19th, 2007 at 12:01 am
October 19th, 2007 at 4:03 am
The signs are saying something
Act fast!
October 19th, 2007 at 9:01 am
lol… love the first comment/trackback reads
October 21st, 2007 at 2:22 am
Mahesh has a branch in Pune too. However, I have never associated Mahesh with wine. For some reason, I still associate wine with more upscale dining. And I shall not comment on the pact!
October 22nd, 2007 at 6:17 pm
ah now dats a fine pact… a good i haven’t made any such pact yet… too young for that i suppose…
btw, i wud have gone for the wine rather than the crabs!!
October 29th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
@ Arjun: Hic?!
@ Shantanu: Yeah, Mahesh doesn’t somehow seem like a wine place! Good to know about Mahesh in Pune, will sniff it out when next I go!
@ Sam: Fine pact? Ah, it did seem so at the time. Now, am not too sure
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Hey wasnt the pact between Monica n Chandler??? U sure that the pact was Rachel & Phoebe with Joey??? Confused…
Btw nice blog.. came first time on ur blog.. Nice
Quite kool!!
Read ur blog for the first time today and already added your feed to my google reader..