Made my mom and mother-in-law (would-be) to talk on phone and I joined on conference. MIL wasn't aware that I was online (was what I thought). MIL being a school teacher and given that her ancestors hail from some part of Tamilnadu, she can understand Tamil quite well, but respond very minimal. Mom went on in full fledged Tamil, trying to sound sweet by thanking them for inviting me to their place, about fixing up the dates and ensuring that I would be a good Daughter-in-law etc etc while MIL had a nightmare with mom's Tamil!! She tried so much to blurt out words in Tamil, responding in single words like 'aama, sari, Ugadi-ku apram, engluku kooda' etc etc. lolllzzz :D :D soo sweet i tell u! but mom was so heartless that she did not even think of giving her a break to complete a sentence, as always! :P ;)
After listening to ten minutes of continuous 1000 wala 'saravedi' from mom's end, MIL handed over the phone to my fiance and told him that she knows I'm online and listening to her. He told me that and that she wants to scold me and gave the phone back to her, she started again telling me she knew that and I was laughing so much and was making fun of her. Told her that it sounded so sweet and her Tamil was definitely better than what many Tamilians actually speak and that I should have recorded it so that I could have laughed for lifetime ;) She said "haan ok ok you will come here and talk in Telugu know, that time I'll record and tease you big time" and all that!
Totally a happy ending! Looking forward to the families to meet over soon and decide on the wedding dates! Love the in-laws family, definitely very nice people, and I must say very high-profile! Lucky me!! :) Touch wood.
God bless us!
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