Close relatives?

“Hi Adi – how are you? Last time I saw you, you used to be running around in nothing else but a T-shirt”. Okay readers – before you think otherwise… the occasion was family wedding, and the person speaking was an aunt I was seeing after close to 25 years! Yeah – the last time she saw me, I was not even 3 I guess.
I am still thinking – how the blazes did I end up getting into this conversation? Well, you see – it was my BILs wedding. As the saying goes “ Saari khudaai ek taraf – joru ka bhai ek taraf”. So – being my saala (sorry sale saahab)’s wedding, I naturally had to play a very important role.
Prior to the wedding, that meant, that when my better half had to shop on his behalf for the whole family, I went around carrying the bags, paying the shopkeepers, standing on one leg, driving the car etc etc. So, I am sure you fairly understand the important role I had to play pre-wedding!
I usually dread family weddings – turns out that other than a few close relatives, I end up recognizing no one. One reason is that I have hardly visited relatives; the second is that I have a phenomenal memory.. I can forget faces and names in less than a minute! So, that always meant that family weddings would involve long intros and ‘Do you remember me?” and other awkward stuff. My brother-in-law’s wedding, I was sure, wouldn’t be like that.
So – the wedding day saw me sitting bored at the hall, pitying my brother-in-law (another bachelor bites the dust) looking so happy – if only he knew of the perils of wedded bliss! I would also occasionally stand next to my wife to meet some relative of hers, who wanted to see her husband (Hell- I thought I had met all her relatives during our wedding, but she always manages to surprise me with an assortment of uncles , aunts and cousins).
As the day progressed and it was time for the muhurtam, I suddenly got a jolt. In the distance, I saw some faces that looked vaguely familiar. I thought – must be more of my wife’s relatives. That’s when one of the old ladies in the group walked up to me and spoke as above! I am sure my face turned pink and crimson and red… but I was still wondering how could one of my relatives some there? That’s when I got the answer – you see, my brother in law’s would be wife (any minute now), had an aunt whose cousin was related to my grandfather’s (dad’s dad) cousin! No wonder – I really have some close relatives J