We met in the city. We met at a lounge in the city. At a lounge called Chemia.
We show up there late, as usual. Go to the bar to have our first drink.
I noticed this guy standing with his back towards me. Really fear. White guy.
I was like, you know, white guy in the Middle Eastern party at my acquaintances' birthday party.
Weird, you know, anyway. But he caught my attention, which was great.
In the middle of all this, I get bumped into. I angrily turn around and it's a girl that's walking away.
And I was like, why would a girl push me?
I did not bump into him.
She's going to say that that didn't happen.
I don't know who bumped into him, but he thinks it was me, so I have no recollection of this.
But I swear to the day that I die, she, like, bumped into me with her shoulder and just walked by.
This never happened according to me.
So we start talking, start introducing ourselves. She asked me my name.
Bunkage. Bunkage. Bunkage. Like, white guy. Bunkage. White guy. Bunkage.
Like, it just didn't connect to well in my head.
Strangely, instead of telling her my name.
Bunkage actually gave me three business cards. I don't. I don't.
I have no idea why I did that. Not only did I hand her one, I handed her two.
It wasn't like, here's one. And then later on, it was more like, here's three, all at one.
He gave me more than one. I think he was three.
She goes, hey, you know, where are you from? I said, hey, I'm from New York, but, you know, my parents are Indian and I'm Punjabi.
And she says, hey, all, you know, say something in Hindi or Punjabi.
I'm weirded out as this has never happened to me before.
I knew nothing. He was the wrong color.
I grabbed my cousin Vishal and I say, hey, say something, you know, in Hindi or Punjabi.
All of a sudden it's bleep, bleep, bleep.
I mean, I can't even say now.
It's like bleep, bleep, bleep. You're a bleep, bleep, bleep. We're bleep, you're a bleep.
And she's mortified as everyone knows Priya is very proper.
But at the end of the day, she saw, hey, they are Punjabi.
First date was three days later.
We went to Budakon for dinner.
Budakon is like an Asian tapas joint, meaning small plates.
You get a variety of things on the table, get a couple of different flavors going.
He forgot to order me dinner.
You had to tapas bar, because I found out later she hates tapas.
Oh, let's just do some appetizers. And I was like, okay, you know, thinking, you know, I just came from work. I was hungry. I'm like dying here.
She's the kind of girl she wants meat and potatoes and like a vegetable.
I don't want to call it caveman-esque.
We ended up at Budawar.
Two sips into her drink, she gets a phone call.
I looked down and realized she's been gone like 45 minutes an hour.
He told you about Budawar.
I love you more than anything in this world and nothing is going to keep me away from you for the rest of your life.
I love you more than anything in this world and nothing is going to keep me away from you for the rest of your life.
Most relationships, you know, the first two months are the honeymoon period.
But I think our honeymoon period has been for the last two years.
I love you.
His entire demeanor, his smile, his dimple.
I'll say her laugh, her smile.
Everything was just perfect at that moment.
Something about her laugh, just the way like her cheeks go back to love.
There was one thing I'd say, the way she's with her family.
Anyone who knows her and knows her family is, they're so close.
Everything that I thought I'm going to want in a man.
