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Rationally Irrational

So the hot season has set in. It is very usual to hear people say… "bahut garmi hai…hai na". (isn’t it very hot?). People do this realty checks very frequently even to strangers. At the suburban railway station, you could see a commuter after wiping swaet away from his brows and neck with his hanky and smile at with one of his ‘realty checks’. It’s not just about this season. You could find it during rains, during winter, at a traffic jam…during whatever. I dunno why people do it…but it is very hilarious when people do it…because the only response you can give is to agree with him most of the times…if not always. Options I could think of are … “is it..? I don’t think so” or telling him back “ya it is…so?” I have found another expression of these realty checks…usually it happens when women / girls meet children…meaning say below 3 years…Almost all of them say… “chee nooo..its chooo cute” I haven’t heard many people say especially when they see a kid for the f