Picnic Musings

Back to business as usual

Compliments came thick and fast on Shekhawat for organizing what many described as the ‘best picnic’ from the Club so far (ref post and slide-show of August 22). “I have never enjoyed more in any other picnic,” said Nahid Khan, still smarting from a nasty fall from a water slide at the Royal Hills resort on Saturday.
“It shall go down as the most memorable picnic of my life,” declared Mumtaz Jahan as others shouted slogans, “Shekhawat-ji ki jai!” Needless to mention, we raised an extra laugh for him soon after the exercises.
Beaming from ear to ear, Shekhawat strutted around like a man who had just accomplished a major mission in life. “Those who did not come with us have no idea what they missed,” he said while doing a running commentary on the picnic photos flashing on his laptop. “Such an opportunity comes but once in a lifetime.”
Bijoy Gupta agreed, even as he turned momentarily red-faced when some intimate pictures with his wife showed up on the laptop. “This is the first time we have kissed in public,” he clarified. “All our lives we have done such things in hiding, surreptitiously, scared that nobody must see us.

Shekhawat is super-excited with the picnic pics

This time we have been caught on camera. These are our first pictures of intimacy!”
Mumtaz quipped that her son would disown her, should anybody bring her picnic pics to his notice. “He says that he would refuse to acknowledge me in those photos,” she joked as others joined her, confessing how they too would have felt inhibited at “enjoying” themselves in the presence of their children and family members.
“It was because we were part of the Club that we could let down our inhibitions,” Fehmida Khan pointed out. “If any of us were to have gone separately to the same place, alone or with our families, do you think we could enjoy as much? It can never be the same again.”
What remained unsaid was that we were plain lucky to have got the resort all to ourselves – that too, on a holiday. It was more like a private party for us with none of the chaos and messiness other popular resorts are known for. That apart, the weather gods were unusually kind to us.
Anonymous:
Picnics allow you to enjoy -- away from the daily monotony and hustle-bustle. The picnics of the club are really enjoyable. But the present one surpasses all the past events and is worth remembering. Those who missed it will certainly feel the loss.
Bihari Milwani:
Can we have another picnic of such beauty on March 14, 2016 to coincide with Shekhawat's 56th wedding anniversary? The cake for the occasion will be sponsored by me.