If you have been to India for sometime, you would have comes across some of the best intellectual questions, that you would ever come across. You would be left speechless, when trying to answer these most obvious questions. Here are some hand-picked ones and the scenarios in which they are asked.
Scenario : When I am on my way to cafeteria at 1:00 pm in the afternoon, carrying lunch box
Question :Going for lunch eh ?
Scenario : Question to the person lying on the bed with eyes closed
Question :Sleepin-ehh ?
Answer that comes to my mind : No, I am acting dead ! Wanna join ?
Scenario : Heading back from supermarket, someone asked me this today ( glaring at the cover full of groceries)
Question :Big shopping eh ?
Scenario :First line after picking up phone
Question :Where are you ?
Scenario : After picking up land line phone ( Thanks to Ajay for suggesting this )
Question :Are you at home ?
Common question during any phone conversation
Question :Is it raining there ? ( I always wanted to tell them to go to weather.com)
Scenario : Someone on the road wearing tracks, t-shirts and jogging shoes
Question to the person : Going for joggin eh ?
Scenario : If you have salads for lunch
Question : ( Looking shocked ) Diet-eh?
Scenario : Someone carrying laptop at the end of the day ( after office work)
Question :Leaving for the day eh ?
Scenario : To the student, coming out of the exam hall
Question :Over-eh ?
Scenario : If I have rice for dinner
(Staring at my dinner plate) night also rice-eh ?
Scenario : If you meet anyone between 1:00 PM and 3:00 PM on any day
Question :Had lunch eh ? ( translates to ‘Did you have lunch’ ? )
And between 8:00 AM and 11:00 AM
Question :Had coffee ? ( Coffee translates to breakfast. So even if you never tasted tea/coffee in your entire life, the answer to this question would be ‘yes’ , if you did have something that morning)
And the award goes to
Scenario: comes to office after haircut.
Question :Something is different “in” your face. Pauses for 1 minute, looks top to bottom. done hair cut eh ?
NOTE:
‘Eh’ – (c) 2015 India, All rights reserved
the word ‘eh’ is an invention from our country. The word magically converts any statement to a question. So if you want to find out whether someone completed a task, don’t bother to put it in a sentence like this:
‘Have you completed the task’ ?Instead, just ask:
‘Done-eh’ ?
I talked to my friend Giri about this and he told me that since people are not aware of anything else to greet others with, they stick to these basic questions. I realized that he was right and decided to join the bandwagon and I have come up with my own set of questions. And here they are.
Scenario :Person filling the cup at a water cooler
Question : Drinking water eh ?
Scenario :To someone incessantly pressing the ‘close’ button in the lift
Question :Having seizures/ epilepsy huh ? Here, hold this key chain, its metal
Scenario :Someone constantly complaining about life, and how bad things are
Question :(Pointing gun at him) Wanna die huh ?
Scenario :Someone constantly looking at his cellphone, every other second
Question :(Taking his/her cell phone and throwing it away) Feeling better eh ?
Scenario :To the cricketer fumbling with his handkerchief
Question : Spot fixing eh ?
[Please feel free to add your own dumb and silly questions as comments to this post. Let’s make this happen ]
(Originally posted in facebook by me on May 24, 2014)
Verry funny! ROFL