Between the Rock & a Hard place

Let’s say your spouse decides to cook you an extra special meal. It’s your favorite. It takes him/her a lot of work. You enjoy the meal and naturally offer to do the cleaning up by yourself.
But here’s the kicker: Your spouse loves to cook, and you hate to clean up, especially after a long day and a big meal. As you wipe down the table and wash the extra-high pile of pots and pans from the extra-special meal, which thought do you have?
1. My spouse gave me something special tonight.
2. I got screwed in this deal.
--- Credited to Scott Adams

And something on related lines --
Dr. Rangel says ---
"Wine her, Dine her, Call her, Hug her, Support her, Hold her, Surprise her, Compliment her, Smile at her, Listen to her, Laugh with her, Cry with her, Romance her, Encourage her, Believe in her, Pray with her, Pray for her, Cuddle with her, Shop with her, Give her jewelry, Buy her flowers, Hold her hand, Write love letters to her, Go to the end of the Earth and back again for her."
Just imagine substituting “him” for “her” in this passage, and telling women to do it. “I want to be his girlfriend, not his slave” would be a reasonable response.

Dilemmas of "Hi-Hello" acquaintances

My aunt has diabetesYou see, that's the trouble with people you know slightly. Those you know well, you can sit and talk for hours. And those who are strangers, you can ignore completely. But those inbetween, the ones you sort-of know, as a passing acquaintance, they are the ones who are most difficult to handle. And I was stuck with one such on a train journey.She was my aunt's neighbour and I had met her a couple of times before. Very very briefly. But no sooner had I settled down in my seat than she started wondering aloud where she knew me from. Once we had established our route to acquaintanceship, we then carried on talking about our mutual link. My aunt. After I had told her about my aunt's recent widowhood (at which she tutted duly) and her ongoing struggle with diabetes and weight (more tutting), there was little to do. So I asked her about her family and if she had any aunts that I may have lived next door to. Now there was even less to discuss. We fell into a merciful though somewhat awkward silence.Later when she bought coffee from the vendor, she offered to buy me a cup. I said I didn't drink tea or coffee. And when I brought out my lunch packet, I offered to share it with her. It appeared she had already had her lunch. More silence ensued during which I wondered what to talk about next. I asked her if she had seen the latest blockbuster movie. It seems she didn't watch movies. She wondered if I listened to classical music. Only movie songs, I replied. After enquiring about interests in cricket and politics, I realised we had exhausted all possible topics of civil conversation. Religion was too personal and I didn't know her well enough to enquire if she had any illnesses she would like to discuss.Our ordeal came to an end when the train reached its destination half-an-hour later. Finally, as we got off the train, I insisted that we stay in touch. I gave her my number and she duly took it down. My number had an extra '0' in it and she jotted it on piece of scrap paper. ---- Credits to ammani's blog

I think we all run across this episode at least twice a week, either in the bus queue or in the train or now with huge towering apartments even in the building lift or in the office lift or cafetaria....... Share your episode and any suggestions to deal with this scenario

Transformation of my Blog

After several attempts to continue postings on my blog i have realised some things,
1. My life doesnt seem to be as happening as other bloggers who have something to write everyday OR
2. I dont have the perspective to create a readable article out of the things which DO happen in my life.
3. My once in a month article is not going to get regular visitors to my blog, which makes the effort of writing in that one stroke of inspiration useless.
4. I am a voracious reader who keeps on scanning and reading blogs on topics from Hypnosis to Terorrism to Child pshycology.

In light of the above I struck upon this idea of creating a Blog where i would aggregate the "Best of my readings". This blog hereupon shall be updated frequently with articles from mutiple blogs, which i find interesting. In short this blog shall transform to " Supermarket of Blogs". Of course just like the Supermarket, the blog shall have "in house" articles written by me in that "wild burst of imagination" :-)
Actually I beleive that this way my blog shall also live up to its name in letting you know "About This and That and Everything Else"

Do let me know if you like this concept of the "blog Supermarket" and of course on the selection of articles !!!