Nick names and Love names....

“You are my pumpkin pumpkin
Hello honey bunny
I am your dumpling dumpling
Hello honey bunny”

One call to your loved one and no answer..ughh..but you hear this jingle and feel good.. like “heart jumping jumping.. like ping pong..ping pong”. This is the jadu of nicknames or love names.

But, at times such love names or nicknames are used only as a style or a farce.

One such funny incident made me write this post on love names. I bumped into one of my best college buddy, Sara, after a long long time. We got into chatting and she insisted I go to her place for a hen party that night. Though I was a reluctant, I was excited to meet her again.

I reached her place and heard a lot of commotion of women chirping away to glory with some music playing in the background. It was a neatly lit corridor, with artificial plants lit with LED’s. There was a big gong bell which I rang wondering if the bell could be heard inside. After ringing the bell three times, Sara opened the door and greeted me with a hug and two muaaha..muaahha..the kinds they show in those up market parties..saying “baby I am so happy you have come my Sonia”…

I just stared back and said ”My name is Shilpa not Sonia.

She laughed loudly and said “I know Angle eyes, Come I will introduce you to the other beauties”

I was getting introduced to so many so called SOBO women doing muaah muaah calling me baby doll, sweety, candy etc. The cheekiest one though was Fruit cake…ukkk!!

Wine and women and gossips and music…by now, I felt I was right in an episode of Sex and the City when I heard a woman telling another woman about this guy she was seeing – “Babes – you know, the hot dude I met at the gym? He is “The hot gym guy”. The other woman was no less, she was giggling and replied "Darling, I too am seeing this “hot meatball sub”…..This is exactly what Samantha Jones would have said.

I just realised in this party that Indian women have become bolder, they were calling their boy friends “Hot Meatball Sub”, wow..I could imagine the face of my loved one if he ever came to know I called him that. Not that I don’t use nicknames or love names…I also do, but these are those sober ones like baby which is the most commonest one now used by both sexes right from the days of classics. The Indianised version of baby at times is Babu... or even sweetheart, darling, sweetoopie, , tarzan, superman, cowboy, etc and yes Hunk..but I now realise that now no longer handsome men are called “Hunks”or “Studs”, now these are a bit of old school as in the Pam Anderson days.

By now, I learnt many more words and was dying to use them, so when I was to say goodbye to Sara, I said, “Hey sweetie, got to go home, my studdu yummy muffin bear is waiting for me at home”..haha!
And yes, before I finish, one more thing, the main rule of thumb when it comes to using cute nicknames for your men, is when it doubt, say it in private. Trying out new names in public for all to hear, may just a cause embarrassment and a fight followed by a few choice not so cute nicknames hurled your way. And, that won't be cool, now will it?