I got a hattrick
You know you've had a boring day when its highlight was going to Franklins to buy some dishwashing powder. I was woken early by the desperate calls of my mother to tell me that I was causing our entire household to be late to my uncle's house for a function he was holding. My response was a mix of the usual 'what function/I wish I had a gameboy to take with me" feeling and eventually I woke up and we left.
It was really boring. I continued the tradition of falling asleep on a sofa in his house, and given this is the third time in a row in the last 6 months I scored myself a hat trick. I don't know why I go to these, I don't do anything but sleep. I at one stage left to go to the toilet because I was so bored: when I returned I found there was only one new guest who had arrived in that time, and that that guest was Amjad. I was even more bored.
Somewhere along the line I escaped and started watching the cricket upstairs. These functions are designed such that the men and women sit separately. In short, the little kids had taken over the 1st storey, the women had taken over the second storey and the women with babies had taken over part of the top storey. The men were all crammed on a balcony and I had to sit next to Amjad. This also meant that I couldn't talk to my sister, who, being the popular person she is, made friends with 4 other girls and was the centre of their overtly exiting conversation.
When I went upstairs my little cousin decided that my hair colour warranted naming me after a little girl in some kids show. Of course that meant that I started calling her 'hey arnold' because of her non-existant football head. In reality thats the only name I could think of in my half asleep state.
I quickly fell asleep and some little kid (maybe my cousin) was kissing my arm. That was really random.
I went out to get dishwashing liquid when they ran out of cutlery. Given its my uncle's function I am not really considered a guest, which means all the formalities of the household apply to me: namely "move the toy truck out of the way of Amjad, eat last, serve people tea and go grocery shopping". At least he now has a maid who does some of that stuff.
- If you wonder why I don't socialise it's because I am far younger than all his friends and we have absolutely nothing in common except that we are at the same place at the same time. I am of course a king pin social elite, but even my masterful skills cannot be applied here.