Mentally Ok?
This is the first part of the promised travelogue. This particular blog deals with an incident concerning none other than Psycho. Those of you who had any faith in his sanity can safely disperse of it.
Before I begin I would like to point out that we stayed at a bank guesthouse, free of cost, thanks to Psycho’s relative. I am however, not being ungrateful, simply chronicling a story that deserves to be told.
The guesthouse that we stayed in also provided us with free food, but not wishing to impose too much on their hospitality, we decided to buy our food. The bank employees recommended a man who provided the bank with food. Interestingly enough, this man also ran two Self-Help Groups (shgs). The topic of our research being shgs, this proved to be an added bonus. We interviewed the man about his shg, etc., etc… What we found out was that the shgs run by the man specialized in food production for the local offices. The main members of the shgs were women with marital problems. This man offered to take two of us to interview one such member of his shg. Psycho and Subhomoy took up the man’s offer and went with him. They went to visit a woman whose husband had been ill-treating her (the man had apparently gone the whole hog, throwing her out of the house, etc.). Subhomoy sat about interviewing the woman while Psycho took the task of writing down the interview. During the course of the interview, Psycho started to play with a young girl who was lying on a bed nearby. The girl, who was the woman’s daughter, looked like a four or five year old. They had been previously informed that the girl was mentally unsound. During the course of the interview, Subhomoy began to hear the sound of someone whistling. Being greatly surprised, he turned and found that it was Psycho who was doing the whistling. He was apparently telling the girl a story and the whistling was the background score (this little detail came out later). Despite repeated requests to stop, Psycho decided to continue playing Aesop. Suddenly, Subhomoy found that Psycho had passed him a little chit (the contents of which will be disclosed later). After the interview, out of curiosity, Subhomoy decided to ask the woman the girl’s real age. The answer? 17 years. The girl apparently suffered from cerebral palsy, which had stunted her mental and physical growth (I know all the disability activists will get me for this remark).
Now why have chosen to regale you with this seemingly sad tale? Because there is a twist in the tale. Despite it being tragedy material, the situation was turned into a comic situation by Psycho’s little note to Subhomoy.
The contents of the note were simple: The girl is MENTALLY OK.
Despite what disability activists say, medical science still regards cerebral palsy as a mental handicap. If Psycho can so easily give the girl a clean chit, then there is either something wrong with him or he is a greater man than all of us. Which is highly unlikely given his propensity to act in a stupid manner. However that’s only my version, now you decide whether Psycho’s mentally ok.
This is the first part of the promised travelogue. This particular blog deals with an incident concerning none other than Psycho. Those of you who had any faith in his sanity can safely disperse of it.
Before I begin I would like to point out that we stayed at a bank guesthouse, free of cost, thanks to Psycho’s relative. I am however, not being ungrateful, simply chronicling a story that deserves to be told.
The guesthouse that we stayed in also provided us with free food, but not wishing to impose too much on their hospitality, we decided to buy our food. The bank employees recommended a man who provided the bank with food. Interestingly enough, this man also ran two Self-Help Groups (shgs). The topic of our research being shgs, this proved to be an added bonus. We interviewed the man about his shg, etc., etc… What we found out was that the shgs run by the man specialized in food production for the local offices. The main members of the shgs were women with marital problems. This man offered to take two of us to interview one such member of his shg. Psycho and Subhomoy took up the man’s offer and went with him. They went to visit a woman whose husband had been ill-treating her (the man had apparently gone the whole hog, throwing her out of the house, etc.). Subhomoy sat about interviewing the woman while Psycho took the task of writing down the interview. During the course of the interview, Psycho started to play with a young girl who was lying on a bed nearby. The girl, who was the woman’s daughter, looked like a four or five year old. They had been previously informed that the girl was mentally unsound. During the course of the interview, Subhomoy began to hear the sound of someone whistling. Being greatly surprised, he turned and found that it was Psycho who was doing the whistling. He was apparently telling the girl a story and the whistling was the background score (this little detail came out later). Despite repeated requests to stop, Psycho decided to continue playing Aesop. Suddenly, Subhomoy found that Psycho had passed him a little chit (the contents of which will be disclosed later). After the interview, out of curiosity, Subhomoy decided to ask the woman the girl’s real age. The answer? 17 years. The girl apparently suffered from cerebral palsy, which had stunted her mental and physical growth (I know all the disability activists will get me for this remark).
Now why have chosen to regale you with this seemingly sad tale? Because there is a twist in the tale. Despite it being tragedy material, the situation was turned into a comic situation by Psycho’s little note to Subhomoy.
The contents of the note were simple: The girl is MENTALLY OK.
Despite what disability activists say, medical science still regards cerebral palsy as a mental handicap. If Psycho can so easily give the girl a clean chit, then there is either something wrong with him or he is a greater man than all of us. Which is highly unlikely given his propensity to act in a stupid manner. However that’s only my version, now you decide whether Psycho’s mentally ok.
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