To be continuing...............
He looks at the audience again.
Husband: Sometimes, I wish if I could give her a tight slap ........
As soon as he utters the word 'slap' then he hears a sound of slapping. After hearing the sound, he gets scared and jumps to his seat back. He starts reading the newspaper again. His hands start shaking.
After a few seconds, Ramu enters.
Ramu: Babu, here is your tea.
Ramu gives him a cup of tea. He puts the cup on the nearby tea table. He is crying and wiping his tears with his apron. Husband observes him. When he is about to return, Babu calls him.
Husband: Ramu stop! Come here, come here. Why are you crying?
Ramu: Babu, I am crying because Ginni Ma has slapped me.
Husband: (standing up from the armchair) What! You are Ginni Ma's dearest, yet she has slapped you. Ramu, then think about me. Every other day, your Ginni Ma hits me with handles, frying pan, even with the broom. But have you ever seen me crying?
Ramu: But I am a man.
Husband: What! You are a man. Who am I? Am I not a man?
Ramu: But the neighbours say. .....
Husband: Our neighbours! What do they say?
Ramu: They say that you are a donkey. Always you are afraid of your wife.
Husband: Get out. Get out.
He pushes Ramu away.
Ramu: You can stop me but can't stop them.
Husband: Get out. Nonsense.
Ramu leaves the room.
Husband: Why did I marry with such a.........
He starts reading the newspaper again and takes the tea. It is so bad that he spits the tea out of his mouth.
Husband: Is it tea! He tries to throw the cup away but resists himself and puts the cup on the table next to the armchair.
The tea is so bitter that he feels like vomiting but he doesn't vomit. He wipes his sweat with his handkerchief and reads the newspaper again. A few minutes later, the wife enters the room with some washing clothes. She hangs those clothes on a rope.
Wife: Lots of work to do!
While doing her work, she stares at her husband's hand. She looks for something at her husband's hand. Meanwhile, the husband leaves his paper and looks at her wife.
Wife: Did not my father give you a gold wedding ring? Where is it?
She searches in her husband's fingers.
Wife: I cannot see it in your fingers. Have you mortgaged the gold wedding ring to play gamble!
Husband: (throwing the paper) So what, in Mahabharata, Yudhisthir mortgaged his wife Draupadi to play this game. If I could (placing his own hand on his own chest).
Wife: Don't think even in your daydream. I am not Draupadi. If I had a husband like Yudhisthir, I would make him understand that women are not toys. And you! (Pointing her index finger to her husband), If you cannot bring the ring back in two days, I shall throw you out of this house.
With these words, she completely turns her face on the opposite side of her husband. Husband holds his wife's shoulder from the back and turns her face to his side. He touches her face and lifts it a little. Then he says politely.
Husband: Pallavi, why do you always fight with me? Don't you love me anymore? Do you know, I have never seen you bow your head before me but I do.
Husband bows his head before her wife.
Wife: I also do.
Husband: (surprisingly) When?
Wife: In the time of sweeping the room.
Husband: (hopelessly) Nonsense!
Wife: (angrily) What! What did you say?
Husband: By the way. Do you know that Bimal is getting married?
Wife: Bimal, who is Bimal?
Husband: My friend Bimal and your friend as well.
Wife: (Shyly) Oh! Bimal da! But with whom?
Husband: You know her. Her name is Buchi who lives in the fifth row after your parents' house.
Wife: Yes, I know her but she is not good. She likes to play the love game with the boys. Please, stop Bimal da to marry her.
Husband: (after thinking for some time) I won't.
Wife: Why not! Do you want to destroy your friend's life?
Husband: Before our marriage, Bimal also knew you very well but he never stopped me to marry you. He destroyed my life.
Wife: What!
When she gets prepared to commence their seventy thousandth fight, Ramu suddenly enters.
Ramu: Babu, may I ask you another question?
Husband: Not again. I don't want to listen. Get out.
Wife: listen to him.
Ramu: Just one question.
Husband is reluctant to listen to the peculiar questions of Ramu but he agrees to listen to him as his wife orders.
Husband: Ok. Say it now.
Ramu: I have a wish to become a doctor when I'll grow up.
Husband: (laughing loudly) Hahaha! Have you not grown up yet? You still think that you are a kid.
Ramu: Please, listen to me. But I have a problem.
Husband: You have a problem! What is your problem? Explain it.
Ramu: I am thinking to become a dentist than any other doctor.
Husband: Why do you want to become a dentist?
Ramu: There are several individual body parts in a human being but in case of teeth, there are 32 in numbers. I will pluck one tooth and get paid for it. I will pluck another one and get paid for that too. With this, I may earn huge amount of money.
Husband: (surprisingly) How intellectual you are! So, start your practice from today.
Ramu: Then I have to learn how to pluck teeth.
Husband: There is nothing to learn. It is very simple. You need tongs. With this, you can pluck anyone's teeth out.
Ramu: Wow! It is very easy then. But who will be my first patient?
Husband: It is none other than but your dearest Ginni Ma.
Wife: (angrily) What! What did you say?
Ramu: (surprisingly) What!
Husband: That's right.
