You may have heard of Bad Hair Day - but what about bad Poonal Day

On some days, one finds that things don't go as planned. And the general tendency is to blame it on some change in the routine that you followed before getting out. These range from 'what did I see first when I woke up this morning?' to 'mebbe I emptied my coffee mug in fewer gulps than usual'. Things like this lead to the formation of the phrase 'Bad Hair Day', meaning a day when you couldn't comb your hair like usual and that caused lot of trouble.

On similar lines, very often I experience what I like to call "Bad Poonal Day" (BPD). On days that I dress up to leave home in a hurry, I invariably experience BPD. So what is it?

Well, sometimes the poonal that you get after avani avittam, is not of the same size as your old one. So, when you dress up in a hurry, there is every chance that you don't make appropriate provisions in your inner garments for loading the poonal. What happens then could be two things: One - you are short pressed or Two - there is way too much poonal.

In the first case, some 10 minutes after you step out of house, you will get this weird sensation around your left neck, near the place where the neck and the shoulder blades come together. You might be tempted to think that some form of a mosquito has invaded your neck region, but au contraire, you realise slowly that it is the poonal. Since it is quite short, it gets jammed in the waist region within the confines of your u'garments. This then causes the other end to slide upwards from the shoulder to the nape of the neck itself.

How do you get rid of this inconvenience? Basically by performing some salsa dance but one that must not be visible to others. You also constantly move your hands around your right waist area and somehow manage to loosen the poonal from its parked position. And then you are mostly good to continue your activities normally.

The second type of BPD happens when the poonal length is unusually longer. Similar to the other case, here too the symptom becomes visible only after the 10th minute. Once again you get a really weird feeling around the left side of the body. But this time, you kinda feel like your vests have mysteriously started falling apart. And you also start feeling some movement around your left arm. Then it strikes you that it is the poonal that has now slipped from the shoulder and is taking a trek down your left hand. For some people, the realisation comes quite late, when the poonal starts taking a peek at the outside world from under the left hand sleeve of your vest and shirt/t-shirt. Moreover, if you are wearing a full sleeve shirt/t-shirt, the ability to comprehend the position gets tougher.

Returning to the normal position in this form of BPD is much easier than the other one. But it involves some effort on your part and this effort cannot go unnoticed. You may try all 'polite' forms of redressing in public, like pulling it in under the guise of adjusting your crease on your shirt. But this is more often only a momentary fix, cause now you will see the poonal step down much faster.

The best way out is to put your right hand inside your shirt, grope for the poonal and drag it back to normal position. Obviously this wont go well with the cute girl that you are trying to impress, but what does she know about your predicament.

I wish someone can come up with a good solution to BPD.