Marriage or else...

It's funny how if you're a woman on the other side of 25, there is apparently nothing left in your life beyond marriage! I always thought this rule was only applicable for relatives and nosy friends of your parents, but apparently it applies even to your bosses.

So here's how the story goes... I get a mail from this guy who's not even my boss or my boss's boss. He's taken over the complete content practice for my organization, which makes a very big guy, and me... a practical nobody in his team. Anyway, so the mail asks me to call him, which I do with this big cloud of doubt hanging over my head. After I identify myself and we get talking, I find out that the reason he contacted me was that NIIT was sponsoring a master's diploma in Education for some of its employees, and I was one of the selected few. The terms were that it was a 2 year program, I would have to go for a couple of hours everyday in the week, and for about 8 hours in all over the weekend. Was I interested?

I told this guy that inspite of being grateful for being selected and all that, I couldn't commit myself because of certain personal issues. Guess what the next question was.... "Personal issues? What... you getting married?". I thought I was being noncommittal when I said "Ah..Ahem... not really, but... some other personal issues".
The next thing I knew, I was in this conversation about how even if I was getting married, I should tell my parents that they should find a guy for me based in Delhi, and so on... (Of course, why he assumes I need my parents to search for a guy for me is another tangent altogether).