What took Vadi so long?

As Vadi disclosed, this was a case of high school love. But Vadi didn't want his parents to know about it and at the same time marry his high school love. So Vadi played a game.When his parents started looking for a girl, Vadi bribed an astrologer who told Vadi's parents that ideally the girl's name should start from 'S'. So in phase I Vadi met all girls whose name started with 'S' but somehow his parents did not shortlist Vadi's love. So Vadi brought in the astrloger again who said that the girl's name should end with an 'I'. With this began the 2nd round but even in this Swathi wasn't somehow shortlisted.Now Vadi was in a fix as to how to make his parents suggest Swathi. So Vadi put in a condition that he wanted to marry a girl who was 5'4" tall. This time Vadi's relatives did suggest Swathi since she was more or less of the same height. Vadi's parents asked Vadi if he was very particular abt the height factor or an inch here and there would do. Vadi said that he wanted the girl's height to be exactly 5'4". Vadi's parents said that there was a good girl satisfying the 'S' and 'I' criteria but was 5 feet 3 and half inches. But Vadi said NO. That girl was Swathi, she had claimed her height to be 5'3-1/2" in her matrimonial resume (though she had told Vadi that she was 5'4"). However, Vadi didnt know what he had missed.Now time was running out and Vadi wasn't getting anywhere close to getting his parents suggest Swathi or so he thought. So he added one more criteria that the girl should be 2005 pass out. But all the conditions were 'AND' conditions and due to the height factor Swathi was not even considered with this new parameter.In the meanwhile Swathi came to know that Vadi had rejected her although she wasn't aware that Vadi had done that accidently. So when they met in Hyderabad, she slapped Vadi and demanded an explanation. Now Vadi knew what a grave mistake he had committed. He too was angry at Swathi for quoting the wrong height in her resume but then it wasn't possible for him to get angry at Swathi leave aside scolding/slapping her in return.But Vadi couldn't directly go and tell his parents to go back to old rejected resumes and reconsider them. So he took help of a wise Baba who asked him to add one more condition, that of girl being a mechanical engineer. Now Vadi's parents were frustrated with all these conditions. But they searched with this new condition.However, the search said 'no match found'. Now Vadi suggested them to relax one of the conditions eg. height. They did that and there was only one match Swathi.So Vadi said that for them he was ready to relax the height condition though he was not too keen about it. His parents thanked him profusely for being so understanding and so Vadi finally got to marry Swathi.

(written - 30 Oct' 06)