Well, my dad is great. As in really great. He's a doctor. Self-explainatory huh? Well yeah it is... Kinda..umm I think. Well, firstly, he has nooo idea, absolutely no idea whats going on my life. Secondly, he thinks I'm still, what, a four year old kid in pigtails! Ok, so P, thats why I wasn't hyper excited at the prospect of going out shopping with my dad. Well, I'm a self confessed shopaholic and I'm those kinds of women who thinks a girl can never have enough. I mean just telling P how many kinds of shoes I wanted made him gasp! Ok, so we went shopping, my dad and I. The whole ride to the shopping mall, was spent telling my dad at placements! Yep, you heard it right, which companies were coming to my campus and all. I was trying to tell my dad about really cool ideas like, a couple of my friends trying to go into the agriculture business and he scorned it, yep he laughed at it without even letting me finish. If that wasn't snobbing me enough, I had to buy a kurti, an orange kurti, when I wanted a black chic skirt! Sigh! I stood in line to pay the bill, when he was standing out oblivious of the world around him.
Next stop in our bonding trip was McDonalds. I wasn't even hungry but finally gave into him 'cos maybe I thought he wanted to eat there! I was trying to tell him how MCD worked out cheapest for us, me P and the rest of us, permanent members of the perennially bankrupt assosciated. He wrinkled his nose with a disapproving nod. Well, he also compared this burger to the one he had a couple of years back when Rang De Basanthi had released. By now, I was open jawed. Come on, RDB? That was like 5 years ago!!! After the whole episode was over, the only question he asked on our way back, "Whats so much fun in what we did? I mean that was a hangout right?"Sure dad. Sure!
I love my dad. But, the thing is he fails to treat me as an individual capable of taking mature decisions. P says that's because I behave like a kid most of the times throwing tantrums and all. Leaving all that aside, the eerie and uncomfortable silence the whole time we were out, was because I think he felt left out from my life. Maybe the realization finally hit him, that I had grown up. Maybe......
