Meet the Patels Page #7

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30 to 5:00, Icebreakers.

Three and a half hours of icebreakers!

I can't think of a more efficient

way to meet women though.

I rarely meet Indian girls

that I like talking to.

I'm getting in the practice

of like, pursuing women,

which, unfortunately,

I'm almost 30 years old

and I really genuinely

feel like I'm bad at it.

Well, you're Indian,

you're not going to be good.

So if a girl has Georgia

and a boy has Atlanta,

you guys match up, okay?

I hope you guys know

your states and capitals.

I don't like how I look.

My hair, I look ridiculous.

Geeta, this is fine, right?

- Mmm-hmm.

- It is, right?

Why doesn't anyone tell

me how stupid I look?

Did you see any guys down

there you like, Geets?

No.

A bunch of Indians in business casual,

they probably just thought it's

like an engineering conference.

They've got to think it's

absolutely fascinating.

I'm sure they're all just

in there making faces.

Yeah, they're white, they don't get it.

We have to kind of do one of these.

They don't get it.

It's like, required.

"They're white, they don't get it."

- Hey, I'm Ravi.

- LA!

- Yeah.

- Anisha.

Hey, I'm Ravi. Hey,

I'm Ravi. Hey, I'm Ravi.

Hey, I'm Ravi. Hey, I'm Ravi.

I try to stay away from Canada

- as much as possible.

- Why?

My mom and dad keep on

calling me over and over again.

This is exhausting, isn't it?

...animal sounds.

Is that what you do? You just find

other people making your noise?

- Meow.

- Meow.

Oh yeah. Hey, I'm Ravi.

Anisha. Nice to meet you.

- Are you good at this?

- No.

Hey, I'm Ravi, oh wait, we already met.

Nice to meet you too.

Nice to meet you too.

This is fun. It's weird and

fun at the same time, yeah.

Yeah, I think we should

do this all the time.

This is great, wait, what's next?

I... um.

I mean, I emailed him and

he didn't email me back.

It's that simple.

What are you going through?

Mom, but that's not true.

"Ravi, this is my first problem,

"our friendship isn't

based on friendship anymore.

"I wish it were. Our friendship

is based, at least on my part,

"in my hope that we will work out.

"I will be honest with you,

"I don't have an interest

in just being your friend,

"I have an interest in being your partner,

"I have an interest in

making sure you're happy

"and healthy and moving

forward in your life,

"but I have an interest

in doing that by your side.

"I'm not trying to be dramatic

or emotional, just practical.

"I wish more than anything

that we could be just friends,

"but I think at this

point, it's impossible.

"I need to remove you from my life.

"It's too difficult for me to

move forward if you are around.

"I'll always be grateful

for the friendship and love

"we were able to have."

Oh, man.

I don't know how I could handle, like,

not being friends with her,

that's the toughest part for me.

I know it's immature on my part but like,

you know, like, I think I could,

I really think I could, I could, I could,

not be with her and be okay.

You know?

Did you love her?

I think so, I don't really

have anything else to...

But yeah, I mean, like...

Like, what's love?

I don't know what love

is, that's why, I mean.

I don't know. I know that, you know...

I know that...

I know that I care a lot about her

and she cares a lot about me

and we know each other inside out,

and, she makes me a better

person in so many ways.

That weekend, we went and

visited a bunch of family

in Iowa, and they're all,

you know, vintage Patels.

They all live under the same roof

- as their parents with their kids.

- Yeah.

You know, in fact,

our cousins represent

what Mom and Dad wanted us to be.

For both of you, it's time to get married.

It said in the Scriptures

that you should marry early

so your mind is fixated

on a certain individual

before it starts fluttering away.

I was looking around,

and our extended family represents

a version of life that I

always thought I would have,

and for the first time

I was starting to doubt

whether or not that's

what I'd end up with.

But then I was also scared of,

in the pursuit of all these things,

ending up alone.

I think, first thing we should talk about

is how much do you respect this process

that parents or whoever

can screen and can do it?

I have a ton of respect for

the process, in fact, I...

Are you giving that respect

when we say, "Meet this girl"?

No, because I don't...

And if you don't meet,

if that respect is not

understood by the children

and children casually throw,

"Oh, I don't like this, I don't click."

That is when I tell Mom,

I say, "You know what, forget it,

"we are not going to do this."

Because they think we found

these online somewhere at random

that we don't know anything about this

and that we throw them because we

want to get them married in hurry

and we don't care who

they get married with.

I really believe, my prince,

you are not being fair to yourself.

You are not giving yourself enough chance,

you are not giving your life a fair chance.

It is a mindset.

We don't have the same mindset you do,

and honestly, I don't

even have the same mindset.

That is why, Geeta, you are not married,

and I'm telling you the reasoning.

If you are ready to know

that why Geeta is not married,

why other people are getting married

then I'm going to tell you

the differences, my dear,

that the other girls are in

the mindset to get married,

they don't want to just reject right away.

They want to get to know

people, they meet second time,

they talk to them on the phone,

they just don't go on and

on, rejecting like you,

"No, no, no, not this".

My point is not getting

married and staying single

is the biggest loser you can be.

I said yes to him, but

when I did say yes...

I didn't say yes, I said, "Yes,

I guess", when he asked me.

"Yeah, I guess," you

said. You didn't say yes.

He's like, "Will you

marry me?" and I'm like...

You said, "I'm gonna throw up",

and then you said, "Yeah, I guess".

But I did marry him twice.

One Catholic wedding and one Sikh wedding.

Yeah, we did two weddings.

So we, that was the

beginning of our compromise.

Like I walked down the

aisle wearing a white dress

to, Here Comes the Bride,

like, literally, laughing the whole time

because I thought it was so absurd.

I came down a street

on a horse, wearing a

turban, carrying a sword.

Pete's Catholic, so we said

that our kids will be baptized.

And I negotiated the communion,

- but I couldn't get confirmation.

- Confirmation.

She said that was brainwashing. It's CCD.

I don't know if I said brainwashing.

- You said brainwashing, you really did,

- Oh, okay.

And quite honestly,

I'm still hoping we can

open up that conversation

and continue the negotiation down the road.

Honestly, I don't know

much about Catholicism.

- I got you 'Catholicism For Dummies.'

- I got it, I know,

I haven't finished reading my

'Catholicism For Dummies.'

We don't thank Jesus, we thank God.

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