After the last post, naturally I was having this urge to sound terribly sexist and smart ass.
Hence, this post.


This was actually written long back upon request from a friend.
Also, I meant it to be sort of a retort against the growing lack of inventiveness in the wives’ jokes going around in mail forwards at that time.
I mean, if you are insulting women, they at least deserve some creativity…. :-)
Hopefully, these are ten things you already know but haven’t heard from anyone else before…. ;-)
So….here goes.

10 things to remember before marrying a Bengali woman....

1. She is gentle, yet wild. A riddle, yet a child.....Alas! Before marriage, this seemed a compliment.
2. She would ask you how many fishes she should have for lunch, and would decide how many you should have.
3. The tougher part is not while she dresses for a couple of hour, it’s the part when she repents how horrible she looks after that.
4. If they really want us to lose weight, who told them to be brilliant cooks?
5. If she can't find something, start cleaning the house. It’s that book you were reading yesterday and left on the table, that’s causing all the troubles.
6. Every day, both you and your wife would ask you (Not yourselves, only you) - "What did I see in you?"
7. She would buy a silk saree worth 10,000 bucks, and wear it once a decade. That was still fine, but she would ‘compensate’ by not buying the medicines for her blood pressure, worth Rs. 250 and prescribed by the doctor to take every day.
8. There are three sides to any argument - yours, her father's and your mother's. And she will tell you all of them.
9. You can have two types of Bengali wives - the safer ones won't let you see another cricket match in your life. Others would sit beside you during the match and expect you to tell them what's going on and where the umpire bought his coat from.
10. Finally, I might be prejudiced. In fact, "I'm the only man I know who is not happy with a Bengali wife..." And you don't have to take my word for it. Ask any man married to a Bengali woman.... :-)