MST : The Acronym for mummy's standard time
Pronunciation: mu·hm·my·s s-taa-nda-ard t-ime
Alternative Pronunciation : mo·hm·my·s s-taa-nda-ard t-ime
- Date:
- 21st century
- Etymology : Not required.
After a hard day's "study" at college, we are going back home, trying to board a bus as soon as we see one. And my friend receives this call from his brother. They plan to meet up in the market for some work. And this is how they decide the time..
His Brother : "Bhaiya, I need to buy some books. How much time will it take you to reach the market ? And which bus should I take ? "
The Friend : "I have just left the faculty and am finding a bus. It will take me 45 mins to reach Central Market.Let's meet up behind Nathu Sweets at 7 o'clock MST. Take route no. 32 from Gol chowk."
Amazed at this new terminology being used, he reveals MST to be his Mummy's Standard Time. Thats the term his dad had coined in a rather funny mood because their house clocks ran an amazing half-an hour fast on the insistence of the mother. And everyone would be judged early or late based on the time on which they arrived home on mummy's clock. Amazing how mummy's rule even the time .
I remember that when I was a younger, and I had to go out of the house for any reason, be it to for evening cricket, a lunch with friends or to visit someone , I was always asked the time when I would be back. That was what I used to call "my"-mummy's standard time. I had to be well within my quilt before that deadline or be ready for an expanation and a scolding thereafter.
I managed sneaking in unnoticed sometimes , I gave a lot of good excuses the other times. But then I ran out of them . Slowly my explanations became old and worse and mummy was too bored to bother listening to any of them . She would often know the stories even before I could finish ranting with my "oh-so-sorry-I-won't-do-it-again face".
But that is how I realised the importance of MST.
That's what it always was and that's how its always going to be... !!
