Being in the same room with not one, but three women who all claim to be PMSing is not a pleasant prospect for any man.
Read that as blaming voracious chocolate cravings and a chronic urge to snap at anyone and at everything, sans provocation — on temperamental hormones. Alicia Silverstone described this condition more glamourously as ‘surfing the crimson wave’ in Clueless.
One unlucky chap, a male friend of the roomies, let’s call him M, was subject to such erratic behaviour most of yesterday. Usually, Slug and the roomie are the ones who make a beeline for chocolates. Slug is the kind of person who buys you a bar of chocolate and then eats it herself. ‘It was calling me’, she says, with a woebegone expression and a whiny sort of tone of voice. The roomie dreams of living in a chocolate house (or some fantasy like that). However, yesterday, I was the one eyeing chocolate. 5-Star, Dairy Milk, any tasteless excuse for a chocolate would do.
The maid conveniently shirked her Sunday morning cleaning. Hence when we got home, our state of hell was further aggravated by the heap of unwashed utensils and grime, in the kitchen sink.
Besides this, the freezer has not been working forever. And the roomie’s hormonal imbalances scaled unbelievable heights – she ended up buying a new fridge. I on the other hand, in a fit of agony, discovered that the erring freezer was mostly to do with the regulator pointing to ‘minimum’ for the past three months or so.
In the midst of a heavy, mooning session about our volatile state of being, M looked on rather sheepishly, obviously thinking that women lack common sense at this particular time of the month.
For long time he could not get in a word, sideways. Then he quipped something to the effect of “I think most women use it as an excuse to get away with anything”.
According to the roomie, her mom gets away with blaming her pop for everything, these three days of the month. And he’s an absolute sport about it.
I added that PMS does make one do strange things. However, some women exploit this condition most effectively. Touché!
