If you are a youngster and more importantly a bachelor looking for a rented flat or a house in any city, I am sure you must have invariably come across and read these most 'teasing' boards outside the gates of several houses and housing societies. I cannot explain how these boards hung outside hurt your self-esteem. It seems as if we bachelors are the only villains in the world out to destroy the social fabric of the society..
Why do we see these 'derogatory' or 'insulting'
words written on boards outside houses??
According to me, we have to face these
disrespectful words for one simple reason - the general conception of the
landlords about bachelors are that they are noisy, undisciplined, messy and will
create a nuisance. It is these prejudices that make it difficult for a single man
or even a woman to move to an unknown city or a rented house, howsoever educated or
disciplined he/she may be.
Every bachelor longs to move out of the strict
discipline of his house to an unknown place of work or even further studies and
fulfill his long-cherished dream of living independently, and I was no exception.
Friends, I will cite my own experience how the dreams of a bachelor who wished to live a decent and independent
life in a rented house were shattered by the ‘cruel’ landlords and friends I
personally feel that most of us must have experienced this at
one stage or another and would certainly relate with it as one of your own.
How I wished (as most of us wish so), I could
run away from the ever nagging instructions of my parents –
“ Take your studies seriously for once at least,
or you have decided to fail this year”,
“The neighbour’s son had scored 98% in
the last exam, and look at your marks”,
“ Don’t be late at night and no partying”,
“Clean your room”,
“ See how your books are scattered all over the
room put them in the right place”…
And so on. These were some expert advice/instructions given to me by my parents, and sometimes my ‘ chamcha’ elder brother or sister
too would join them in the chorus. I think all of you too must have been
showered with these ‘valuable’ instructions, day in and day out.
I had just finished my studies and was on the
lookout for an opportunity to move to another place for work and prayed to Almighty to help me out. At last, He listened to my pleas and sent me a much-awaited
chance to move out for work. I felt as if I was on cloud nine and was dancing
with joy (internally of course) as if I had conquered the entire world and was
thrilled to fly away from the ‘cage’ called a house. I think every one of us
thinks so.
The picture looked very rosy, and I was filled
with joy as soon as I got my appointment letter from a company in Ahmedabad. Wasting no time I began preparations and started packing my bags, of
course under the ‘expert’ guidance and instructions of Dos and Don’ts of my mother
and elder sister.
I started daydreaming and listed out the things
I would do while staying independently. Wish to share some items
in the list, which I think will be common for all of us:
1. Partying with friends
2. Eat and drink as I wish
3. Trash my place
4. Will come home as late as I want
5. Bring my friends and girlfriends to my place
without restrictions.
6. And so on…….
My happiness knew no bounds but in my excitement
for living independently I did not even once have an inkling of the numerous problems associated with the single persons, the major being - looking for a rented
place by the ' b-word'. Alas, I did not anticipate that all my dreams would be shattered and the
lists I had prepared would go to the dustbin.
Anyway, let us continue with my journey. Filled with joy but with a shade of sadness on my face, I left my home in Surat, reached Ahmedabad with my bag and baggage and checked into a budget hotel till I get a ‘dream house’ of my own.
I spent the night dreaming about the list of things I would do in my independent house.
Next day I started scouting for a rented place
which would be close to my place of work, be of the right size, fit my budget, and has a reasonably clean surrounding.
Believe me, friends, very soon I realized that being a single person looking for such a place is too good to be true. We bachelors have to face a lot of problems in our daily lives, but according to me, finding a rented house is the most important and problematic of them all.
So, my fellow sufferers, I leave it at that but I promise that in Part II I would share with you the problems we have to face regularly and how I was interviewed by a 'landlord' before he said no with a capital N.
Please let me have your comments and experiences so I may be able to highlight some of those in my next article.
See you soon…..
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