WOMEN AND STEAM

How can you add steam in a lady’s life? By gifting her a platinum ring? Not necessarily. An aluminium, two litre flat bottomed, cooker can make a lot of difference.  Try it. Women love cookers in different sizes, colours and shapes. Most of them own at least two to three cookers plus a milk cooker. And they are always on the hunt for the next. May be a Valentine day addition - pink, heart-shaped cooker.

But don’t assume that a man’s job is merely to buy a cooker and fix broken handles or missing screws. A man’s responsibility actually starts when the lady puts the cooker on the stove and asks him to put off the gas after 3 or 7 whistles. This simple task of keeping a count on whistles, while watching noise on television, can find him wanting.

 For instance, a woman puts the cooker on the stove and goes to the loo. The cooker starts off.  Then you hear…  “Switch off after three…”. Kya musibuth. Was it third or fourth?  If the food is over/under cooked, who do you think gets the “steam”?  “Good for nothing men”, of course. 

With women adding up more and more cookers, the responsibility of men has grown manifold. Imagine two cookers on the stove and the man tracking their whistles. Seven for dal and three for rice. Or three cookers on three burners, at a time, and then he is asked which one blew just now.

In my experience, managing cookers is tougher than monitoring whistles. Once, I put a cooker on the stove and went to the loo with a confidence that I spend less time there. Do I? Within no time, pressure in the cooker builds up and it starts wailing when I am still uh! errrr…. I am caught between two pressures. You can’t beat the cooker when it comes to building pressure. It also proves that women handle 'pressure' well.