Rachana: Don’t joke.
Kumar: It’s no joke that it pays to report on man’s womanizing ways to his wife. Wonder why women won’t realize that.
Rachana: Give me your wife’s number, just in case.
Kumar: She’s going to welcome your call.
Rachana: But why, if it’s not a joke.
Kumar: You will know when we get close.
Rachana: How clever, incite a woman’s curiosity to induce her to come closer
Kumar: It’s for the woman to choose to be or not to be. But why should I open my life to someone not closer to me.
Rachana: Looks like you are a seasoned hand.
Kumar: I can vouch that I’m thirty-five and no less.
Rachana: I think there is lot that one can learn from you.
Kumar: One needn’t come close to me for that.
[Diwakar talks to Kumar on intercom (mime). Kumar takes the file to Diwakar. Rachana watches Kumar as Diwakar pulls him up [mime] Kumar goes back to his seat.]
Rachana: I could see that boss is annoyed with you.
Kumar: Of what avail being a boss if he won’t pull subordinates for his shortcomings.
Rachana: Maybe he’s jealous.
Kumar: You give me cause to complain.
Rachana: Why do you think so?
Kumar: Is it not inducing womanizing.
Rachana: Jokes apart, what it is all about.
Kumar: Take men as sperms and women as eggs, as you should, and it’s the Sperm-egg Syndrome that governs the male female attitudes. Like hordes of sperms seek a single egg, scores of men chase a desirable woman. As with eggs, so with women, having taken one, they would ignore others. But like an odd egg that lets in multiple sperms, some women revel in multiple partners.
Rachana: What are you suggesting?
Kumar: It’ natural for men to besiege a desirable dame and it’s for her to let the superfluous suitors pass by.
Rachana: Why it’s but shifting the onus on women.
[Diwakar with some files in hand reaches them.]
Diwakar: Kumar hold the fort till I come back. .
Kumar: Yes Sir.
[Exit: Diwakar.]
Kumar: Picking up the threads from where we left them, there was an episode which proves that men are far too ill-equipped to guard against scheming women.
Rachana: What is that?
Kumar: There was a lady clerk in the marketing department who was a past master of soft sell. It was her tactic to let the targeted man know that she was short of money. What with the man perceiving her as vulnerable, she starts flirting with him to begin fleecing him in time. Well, all the while keeping him at an arms length. But were he to tighten his purse strings in frustration, she invites him home insinuating her willingness.