Thinking of you dad, on father's day

As a child my father's diabolical personality always fascinated me.

His famous temper threatened to bury everyone in its fury. The slightest facial manifestation of a temper trouble - a menacing nerve twitching with raw emotion, angry furrows, and pursed lips, made me and my sister run for cover. My mother was also insightful enough not to ruffle his feathers when he appeared "negatively charged".

However, his temper was not the only trait which defined his personality.

His sense of humor deliciously peppered with measured doses of cynicism, wit, sarcasm and raciness, could knock out even the most bland and straight faced person.

Just yesterday, after waking up from his mid-afternoon siesta he hatched a very productive plan of creating a "unique" Orkut profile for my mother. The shrill enthusiam in his voice reeked of treacherous intentions. Once I gave an appreciative nod of a person "in the know", Dad set about his business.

The "Personal" page of my mother's faceless profile had the following details punched in, much to every pervert scrapper's delight...

Ideal Match - Rajkumar (with all due respect to the deceased star - Maa what were you thinking???)

First thing you notice about me - My five feet nothing frame

Build - A few extra pounds (now my mother is not exactly a "yummy mummy", know what I mean...a few extra pounds is a very modest comment....this was added after some evil chuckles and Hi-5's)

Body Art - Strategically placed tattoo (Well I love my mum like the rest of her brood....I swear I do...but honestly all tattoo parlours would shut shop if she ever decides to get a tattoo ....and a strategically placed one at that!!!)

My idea of a perfect first date - Too late in the day

Turn Ons - tattoos (not again!!), candlelight and wealth (makes my mother sound like a gold digger)

Passions - Nagging my husband and children (way to go Papa, you finally did it!)

Sports - The only one's I've played is Chiti Dhap and Kho Kho (now hide-n-seek on my profile doesn't sound as bad...now does it???)

Living - with partner, friends visit often, party every night (The last time my parent's partied was when my sister finally passed high school with "respectable" marks, a decade ago!)

Good for gags....Isn't it?