She had seen him stealing glances at her for many days now. Those coy smiles that he would throw at her every time their eyes met sent her heart racing. And on Valentine’s, she finally walked up to him and said “Open out your heart to me, as you look into my eyes, tell me what you see”. He replied “Well, that’s a pretty bad case of conjunctivitis you have there”. So she stabbed him with her hairpin.
Ok, I give up. I suck at writing romantic stories.
To be honest, it would have turned out pretty well had the lady not developed an eye infection at such a critical juncture. But it does prove one thing, before you make your romantic move, just make sure you don’t suffer from these little irritations like, you know, cough, cold, upset stomach…well, you get the idea.
Seriously think about it, have you ever heard of a girl going up to a guy and telling him “WOW, I was simply swept off my feet by the way you blew your nose”. Not gonna happen.
And in the whole of Romeo and Juliet do you ever read about Juliet developing a cough..?
“Romeo my Romeo, (cough) (cough) where art thou ?”,
“Dear Juliet, cough some more, you sound like a songbird with a sore throat”
See ?, it is just not done.
That’s why there are no successful romantic stories involving people with infections.
If you are still not convinced, let me point you to the most definitive guide for all romances…movies. Movies capture all possible scenarios that make romance possible. The nurse falls in love with a soldier with two bullets in his chest in the middle of a war or the hero goes bonkers over our lady who is suffering from amnesia. But there is no movie where, say, a doctor falls in love with his patient suffering from diarrhea.
So the next time, someone tells you that after they met you they feel weak in the knees, they can’t sleep well and they don’t feel hungry anymore, just remember that it may not be love, you probably passed on your flu.
Anyway, the point I am trying to make is no matter how beautiful or handsome you are, don’t even think of making a move when the viruses are loose.
And when you do make one, wear your sun glasses just in case…
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5 comments:
haha :-) in luv with a patient with diarrhea :D nice post for valentines day! Happy Valentines!
:-)
That's because, in cinema, getting drenched in a tornado won't result in cold/cough for the love birds! Real humans don't have such super human genes! :-)
BTW, Tom hanks loves Meg even though she has a terrible cold in you've got mail.
Thanks Ruth and 'Anonymous'.
Madhan: Good one. But to my defense, I must say that Tom Hanks had already met Meg Ryan before she caught her cold. I am not sure if he would have fallen in love if on the first time he saw her, she had kleenex stuck up her nose ;-)
May be another way of looking at it is - like the old indian movies - Wow, we both have cold at the same time, our ideas are matching, our health is matching, bla, bla.
Ok, I agree, I am not good at humor :) But good one :)
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