Thursday, January 15, 2009

Silly Tale: The Princess

The man and the woman were staying overnight at a hotel. He was on a business trip, and she had been visiting friends in the same city. They decided to spend the last night of their stay there in the five star hotel the company had booked for him. Since this was a somewhat impulsive decision, they stayed in his standard room with twin beds, rather than getting the room changed to one with a double bed.
Since they'd been apart for some days, they cuddled up in one bed until she felt cramped, and too near the source of the loud snores emitted by her man. She moved to the other bed, and soon fell asleep.
In the morning, though, she was exhausted from a largely sleepless night. 'They call this a five star hotel,' she grumbled. 'The bedsheet wasn't pure cotton- it's all bumpy with pilling. I couldn't sleep a wink.' She checked the sheets on his bed. 'Not fair. Your bed had cotton sheets.'

He examined her sheet closely. It had the characteristic tiny 'pills' that polyester often generates. He laughed, 'After all these years I finally realise that I'm married to a princess.'

' Why am I suddenly a princess?' (Rather grumpily)

' Remember the story of the princess and the pea- she couldn't sleep because there was one pea underneath twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds. And you couldn't sleep because of these tiny irregularities. That makes you a princess'.

Ah well. When she was a tiny child she'd always wanted to be a princess. Better late than never!

15 comments:

Sue said...

LOL!

I always feel the 'peas'! When I was a kid Baba declared me a princess for this very thing. :) Let's start a club!

~nm said...

:D Good one!

Preeti Aghalayam aka kbpm said...

:-) i know what you mean.

Anonymous said...

This is so sweet and romantic. Awwwwww

Mamma mia! Me a mamma? said...

Hahaha! Cute and endearing!

Indian Home Maker said...

See every cloud has a silver lining! One sleepless night and a crowned Princess for life :)

I like hard, flat - peasant-like beds :)

D said...

Oh, it's better to know what a Princess feels like even we aren't one! ;)

SD said...

Hey was that you? Endearing incident... or is it story?

A Muser said...

Hey, maybe we should call you Princess Di from now on! :D

Artnavy said...

me too !! cutely narrated.

And take up the magnet tag if u like

Anonymous said...

lol ! I know exactly what you mean.

Choxbox said...

LOL!

Anonymous said...

How sweet! from one pricess to another-i can't stand non-cotton sheets either. i used to claim to my mother that i could feel "peas" in the bed (where the knots in the mattress are)

Mandira said...

:D an interesting piece,dipali.

Mampi said...

:)
Here's to all the princesses !!!