Dr. Prakash Dave Municipality taps and happy moments come! A faucet is the luckiest device in the world, because women at home are waiting for it! Women are the saddest when the faucet doesn't come and the happiest when it comes. Women do not miss a single opportunity to go to the pier, tap day is an exception. Many men do not do any housework, but when the tap comes, you can definitely see him standing by the tap with a bucket. The importance of faucets in human life has increased so much that now if anyone feels like writing a Purana, they can write a faucet. As many taps as poetry can be. There are so many incidents connected with taps that stories can be made about taps and women instead of men and women. Faucets have indeed become an indispensable part of our lives. Even though our body is 70 percent water, our mind is 70 percent full of thoughts. We need wind, sunlight and water to live, which God has arranged for us. We don't have to go anywhere for wind and sunshine. The wind and sunlight come right where we are sitting. A faucet does this to water. For water we have to go to the tap. Wind blows round the clock. Sunlight has a fixed time, but when the tap comes and when it goes away is not fixed. Taps have dominated the water. That is why we say that if water has come, taps have come. A faucet is like a son-in-law. (Note… no one should interpret this as 'son-in-law is like a faucet'.) We do not despise sons-in-law. If son-in-law's name is Jayanti, we say 'Jayanti came' or 'Jayanti left'. Same is the case with taps. If there is any small tap, one has to make human statement like 'taps came' or 'taps went'. However, there is also a difference between tap and son-in-law. The faucet goes faster than the son-in-law! A faucet is more lovely than a son. If the son comes home early, he can be reprimanded. No word can be said to the faucet whenever it comes. Due to such affection, some taps behave very rudely. One comes late and after coming five minutes after coming, I will blow up. If we put a bucket down to drink nectar-like water, it will start distributing water out of the bucket instead of the bucket. We have to move the bucket from here to there. Where water and buckets are set up, Udati starts doing 'tata tata' like a visiting Mahanubhav. There are different types of faucets available in the market but they are all similar in design. It comes when it comes, it comes when it comes, it comes as much as it wants to come is the property of every faucet. Even after the tap goes on, some women sit still with the feeling of 'o janewale ho sake to lot ke ana'. Some women put their mouths under the faucet and try to peek inside to see if the faucet is really gone. Some women put their finger in the tap to check if the tap is really gone or if the water is sitting inside the tap and eating it. However, to do this one needs to have a finger thin enough to fit the tap in! As a last resort, women check a neighbor's house. If the taps are not coming to the neighbor's house, he is assured and relieved that the taps are going! In many households, outings are scheduled based on the timing of the tap. If the faucet does not arrive on time, the outing program is postponed in many households and creates an atmosphere of tension in the house. Such taps which do not come on time prove to be dangerous even more than fire taps. It is not the fault of the municipality in every situation where the tap does not come. Some taps are also crooked. Due to some reason such taps go on holiday. Gabbar himself means that the woman's husband comes out armed with weapons to bring about such an irregular tap. “Manglaben's husband had also repaired his tap”, “If he had not been lazy, he would not have had to get a water tank”, “Sir, you should also know how to work as a plumber.” Provides inspiration and encouragement by singing heroic songs like My friend Magan believes that women are looking at the tap as much as they are not looking at their bridegroom!
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