We all know what it means. But, when asked this question, I blanked out for a while and I wondered, not about the answer; but about why this question was even asked. I am not going to take any names here, as it might hurt someone's prospects of a relationship. So let's name people as X, Y, A, B and so on....
Curious dude X tells another dude, Y, about this friend of his. Friend = A.
Dude A and gal B had been friends for a while, and were often just hanging out together, talking about, god knows, whatever topic. During one of such hang outs, A and B ended up holding hands for at least a couple of hours.
and then ......... wait for it.................... wait for it.................. nothing! This is all that happened (or at least what I came to know of). Whats more significant is what happened after A and B parted. A called up X and told what had just happened and asked him "yaar, agar ek ladka aur ladki ek-doosre ka haath pakad ke baat cheet karein, to iska kya matlab hai?" and X said that he didn't know, and was puzzled himself. As he was curious he asked Y about the matter.
Y digs on to get more info on this by asking questions like - Who held the hand first? Was this some comforting or consoling hand holding or not?, basically tries to get some possible masala out of the story. X replies positively, saying that there wasn't either consoling or comforting involved, no one in particular held the hand first, it just happened.
This is where I come to the picture. So this dude Y tells me about X asking him such questions. I too, obviously asked Y the masala extracting questions, and told the universal conclusion about this matter, to which Y agreed. We confronted X about this and got some more info on the topic, which pointed to one thing - there is no A. X was playing the oldest trick in the book. He used the name of A to just narrate his own story. I guess the proxy can be understood in a way that by doing so, X gets to keep his budding relationship under cover, and also gets a way to ask the trivial question.
But the other question still lingered....
What does it mean when a guy, asks his friends for the answer to this trivial question?
One could be that X knows what it all means, but for some reason hopes for a different answer.
Or this could be his arbit way of sharing info on his life.
Or he is just trying too hard to analyse the situation.
So, tell me.. What does it mean dude?
Curious dude X tells another dude, Y, about this friend of his. Friend = A.
Dude A and gal B had been friends for a while, and were often just hanging out together, talking about, god knows, whatever topic. During one of such hang outs, A and B ended up holding hands for at least a couple of hours.
and then ......... wait for it.................... wait for it.................. nothing! This is all that happened (or at least what I came to know of). Whats more significant is what happened after A and B parted. A called up X and told what had just happened and asked him "yaar, agar ek ladka aur ladki ek-doosre ka haath pakad ke baat cheet karein, to iska kya matlab hai?" and X said that he didn't know, and was puzzled himself. As he was curious he asked Y about the matter.
Y digs on to get more info on this by asking questions like - Who held the hand first? Was this some comforting or consoling hand holding or not?, basically tries to get some possible masala out of the story. X replies positively, saying that there wasn't either consoling or comforting involved, no one in particular held the hand first, it just happened.
This is where I come to the picture. So this dude Y tells me about X asking him such questions. I too, obviously asked Y the masala extracting questions, and told the universal conclusion about this matter, to which Y agreed. We confronted X about this and got some more info on the topic, which pointed to one thing - there is no A. X was playing the oldest trick in the book. He used the name of A to just narrate his own story. I guess the proxy can be understood in a way that by doing so, X gets to keep his budding relationship under cover, and also gets a way to ask the trivial question.
But the other question still lingered....
What does it mean when a guy, asks his friends for the answer to this trivial question?
One could be that X knows what it all means, but for some reason hopes for a different answer.
Or this could be his arbit way of sharing info on his life.
Or he is just trying too hard to analyse the situation.
So, tell me.. What does it mean dude?
