Neighbours were shocked on Sunday when a local aunty, Pinky Aunty, decided to stop giving advice to people in her colony after realising no one was actually following her “wonderful” suggestions.
It all began on Thursday evening when Pinky Aunty told Meena, a local mother of two small children, to put hats on her kids’ heads in the playground due to the cold weather. By Friday, the kids were out again, hatless. Similarly, Pinky Aunty advised Mrs. Jain to add more ghee to her granddaughter’s rotis to fatten her up. After some questioning, Pinky Aunty discovered that no ghee had been added.
By Saturday, Pinky Aunty had had enough. “If people don’t want my expert advice, I’ll withhold it from them—that will teach them a lesson!” she declared. In protest, Pinky Aunty spent Sunday refraining from giving any of her advice. By evening, neighbours noticed a peculiar peace settling over the colony as Pinky Aunty kept her mouth shut for an entire day. Mr. Subash, the neighbour adjacent to Pinky Aunty, remarked that there hadn’t been so much peace and quiet in the neighbourhood in a decade.
On Monday, unable to resist the urge any longer and not wishing for the colony to suffer in ignorance, Pinky Aunty resumed offering advice, bringing the neighbourhood back to its usual frenetic normalcy.
By Monday evening, the colony had returned to its typical hum of unsolicited wisdom, with Pinky Aunty making up for lost time. “I just couldn’t let them suffer in silence,” she confessed, offering new advice to anyone within earshot—this time suggesting Mrs. Singh should get her dog, Chiko, groomed. The neighbourhood collectively sighed, thrust back into a sea of unwanted advice.
And don’t we all know a Pinky Auntie!