I remember my friends telling me all sorts of scary things after a meeting with their girlfriend's fath er but I always thought may be they didn't know the trick to impress her father. And, I must say, only after I experienced it myself, I realised what it is like to meet up with a girl's father for marriage.
Needless to say, you are the second most important man in your girlfriend's life and it is difficult for the first one, her father, to not have negative thoughts about you or test your abilities. So, how best can you avoid the common blunders and boost your confidence to face the difficult situation? Here's it is...
As I waited to be considered to be a 'Dulha mil gaya' to this well-to-do family, I was nervous and anxious like any other guy would have been in that situation. Daddyji - the CEO – a very sophisticated man, walked in with his wife. I shuddered at their royalty. He was on the phone speaking in some foreign language, which sounded like German to me. My uncle who had accompanied me whispered, “O’yaar yeh toh Hitler jaisa bolta hai! Baddhhai ho!”
I wouldn't think twice to admit that I wasn't happy that my parents sent me for a meeting with my would-be-in-laws with this Uncle of mine! The CEO half-smiled at me with a polite gesture of hello, while his wife offered me some sausages kept on the table. After enquiring about my parents, who planned to join us next week (if all this went well), she asked, “So tell me more about yourself”… just like how the HR department asks an anxious fresher seeking his first job. Fair analogy, because this would be my first job as a husband for someone’s daughter. But, I wanted to see the 'take-home package'! Oops! Anyways, while telling her about me, I felt like handing over my insufficient CV with grammatical errors to her.
Meanwhile, Mr. CEO joined the discussion and was listening carefully to my fumbling response. Out of nowhere, my Uncle in his impish “wannabe-senior-person-from-Punjab” attitude, decided to jump in - “Mr. Sirjee, very nice to see you speaking the Germaanian. Truly talented.” I didn’t know what to feel worse about – that he pronounced German as Germaanian or that he had safely handed over his 'ladka-waala' advantage within his first two cheesy words ('Mr. Sirjee' - Really dude?)
He went on with his ways of trying to impress, and somehow landed up asking us his favourite all-important fundamental question – “Why, according to you, is this earth round in shape?”...and then answering it himself he said – “If earth is round only because it rotates about its own axis, I wonder if you’d grow round in case, you get up and rotate around yours. Actually, the earth is a Geoid-like shape and not exactly a sphere…” he went on and on and on!
As the evening progressed, I realised that I was definitely short of one PPT presentation and three excel sheets, while entering the CEO's den. I could almost sense he was using his Android phone to validate my Linkedin profile, while I spoke of my professional escapades. Or may be he kept checking the Live Cricket Score of the Indo-Pak WC Semi-final in his app-heavy device.
And of course, my Uncle had already done his bit by lecturing the CEO on '5 reasons why the network coverage of his mobile company division actually sucked!' The CEO was smiling the way we smile in disbelief while watching a Rakhi Sawant show on TV. By the time my Uncle intelligently pointed that 'Spam It' was nothing but 'Pamit' (my name) with an 'S', I had long forgotten my aspiration of marrying his daughter. I was now only hoping dearly, I’d still have my job (this Mr. CEO also happened to know the CEO of my company personally).
The episode taught me two lessons:
1. Uncle 'know-it-all' is the worst ladka-wala to have on your side…
2. Never choose the day of Indo-Pak Semi Final as you might miss your match and the cricket match both!
I remember my friends telling me all sorts of scary things after a meeting with their girlfriend's fath er but I always thought may be they didn't know the trick to impress her father. And, I must say, only after I experienced it myself, I realised what it is like to meet up with a girl's father for marriage. 
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