SwInGeRs CLUB, anyone?!

Rajat Kapur made a movie called Mixed Doubles a few years ago that dealt with wife / couple swapping or what in popular parlance is called Swinging! How true! Swing from one partner to another! Of course he gave it a desi touch with the couple not being able to go ahead with the whole thing on the said night. (I kinda like such desi happy endings! they keep complications out!). Around the same time I ended up watching a similar themed Hollywood movie, whose name I don't remember now! The husband there has been wanting to spice up their lives by swapping with his best friend and his wife for whom he has always had some hots! With all the begging, pleading and logical(??) reasoning the wife gets convinced.

On the D Day the hubby cannot go through with it and the wife does, if only to keep her of the bargain. The rest of the movie is about how the whole world goes topsy turvy when he has the gall to blame her for infidelity! Geez!

I wonder what makes couples want to this? In a way is it more 'honest' that closet affairs and one night stands? Whatever it is, its not a sign of a healthy relationship!

But that's not the kind of swinging I wanted to talk about! I just want to talk about the good ol' play swing aka as jhoola in Hindi and jhopala in Marathi! :D

I just LOVE the swing! I don't remember when did this fascination start, but it has never ended. I guess it was when i was in school and went to Ichalkaranji and Kolhapur for my summer vacations. Being in Bombay with hardly any parks in the vicinity, jhoola was a not a common thing! I remember the parks being full of kids in summer and having to wait endlessly to get a turn on the swing. Sometimes we had fights too if someone stayed on for too long!

Finally you got your turn. You sit gingerly on the swing as if to test its height and strength. Then you take it all the way back till your legs are straight and it's just your toes touching the ground! All set and you let go with your legs folding under! Up and above! You come down and push your legs back again to get the speed and height you desire! Take it higher than ever before and actually enjoying the feeling of your stomach turning and churning as the swing goes down from its l'il flight fighting gravity! It was your very own sasta and tikau roller coaster ride! :)

Even today I see a swing and temptation to just go and take a swing is just SO strong! I love it as I sit on one and take it higher than I ever could as a kid! The wind making my hair fly astray as my head moves back and forth with the jhoola, as if one with it! :)

There are many parks in Bangalore, but alas I am not a kid anymore. I did try at one close to our place, but the chowkidaar came running with a stick in his hand and loud whistle telling me to get off!! :( It was too embarrassing to try again. Not that it stops me from trying to grab a chance anyway!

So whenever I go to nice big colonies with a kiddy play area, i make the most of the opportunity! Hehe! Just the other day when we went to Corner House at Hotel Airline at 11pm. The place has a kiddy area outside. Everyone was sitting on jhoolas and see saws and enjoying their ice creams. M tol me to go and take a swing! :) I don't know why I said no. By the time we finished the divine Cake A Mocha both the jhoolas were empty (there was a cute couple enjoying PDA on one of the swings) and I just couldn't resist myself!

What a feeling it was! Yet again! God bless the person who invented this thing!! :p

Am hoping to teach Cubby the fun of it someday soon! Right now he just cries on swings and slides! :)

So if you see an old, fat woman going crazy on a swing, stop by and say hello! :D