Shaheen: (With kindness) have this Haseeb Jan… have your tea… then go to job… in the hungry belly working is not possible…
Haseeb: I don’t have the appetite… but it is ok… I will have some…
Shaheen: (With Suspicion) When are you going to get your salary Haseeb?… nothing left at home… there is no money as well to go for shopping… cooking oil… rice… flour… and everything is finished… this month the electricity bill will also come and as well the house rent… I don’t know what to do…
Haseeb: (With anger) I don’t know what to do… we will manage it somehow… and without this what can we do? We will eat less… what is the need that you are reminding me this in early morning and making me sad…
Shaheen: (With anxiety) if I don’t tell you right now; then when should I tell you? Whenever you come home at nights then you are tired and sad… talking with you is difficult… the winter is also near… wish that we would have taken care of the coal and wood for the winter… I don’t know what to do… I am really sad and worried…
Haseeb: (Exclaim with sadness) it is better that I leave and get lost… you are making jokes of me… you made me crazy… with the current facilities you should manage… you have seen it from the very beginning that I was an ordinary employee…
Shaheen: (With sadness) Why you are getting serious? I haven’t tell you anything wrong… I am saying that you should…
Haseeb (He is cutting his words and stands up) I said enough… I don’t want to hear more than this… I am the man of this house… I will take care of everything… you don’t need to worry… this is not the university that you are counting like this… it is my home… understand or not (Opening and closing sound of the door)
Shaheen: (With Sadness) at least you should have taken your tea Haseeb… uff God… what is this situation…
Shaheen: (With herself) ah…ha… God… it is too cold… I don’t have money to purchase a washing machine… what is this situation God… Haseeb is really cranky… otherwise I would have told him about getting a job.
Shaheen: (Shouting) Who is there… come in … the door is open…
Nabila: (From far) Hello Shaheen… hope you are not tired… are you washing cloths…
Shaheen: (With kindness) hello Nabila… I hope you also be ok… I am ok… yes; I am washing the cloths… I am also done… let’s go home…
Nabila: (Compassionately) no dear… there is no need… We will just sit here… chat for a while then I will go… should I help you or not?
Shaheen: (While shaking the cloths) no sister… I am almost done…I will hang these cloths to the sun… ok tell me what new things are? How are you with the job? Why you have not gone to the office today?
Nabila: (With kindness) it is ok… the time is passing… today I took a day off… I am going to buy something for winter… do you know there is a new position announced in our directorate… there is a need for an employee in the statistics department… I thought to tell you… I know that you will be passed in the test… you are graduated from economic faculty…
Shaheen: (With Sadness) I am graduated… but Haseeb may not leave me to work… do you know that his salary is not enough for us… if he would let me also work then it would be very good… from one side I would help her in house expenses and from the other side it would be a good activity for me… from this jobless situation the whole day I am watching the walls and doors of the house…
(Low volume of TV – Sound of collecting the dishes)
Shaheen: Why you didn’t take your food Haseeb Jan… I think it was not tasty…
Haseeb: (With anxiety) Nothing… I don’t have the appetite… I am tired… I have taken something in the office as well…
Shaheen: (With Joy) It is ok… today Nabila was here… she passed greetings to you…
Haseeb: (Impatiently) greetings to her as well… what was she saying?
Shaheen: (With anxiety) she was saying that in the office they announced a position for statistics officer… she informed me so that I also apply and go through the test… she told me that I would pass the test because I am a graduate of economic faculty…
Haseeb: (With anger) don’t make the clash bigger… I won’t let you go to the office… I don’t like… I am the man of the home… I will cover all the expenses related to home… you should take care of your home activities…
Shaheen: (Sadly) Why Haseeb Jan… why you are opposing me… both of us know that your salary is not enough for the needs of our life… from one side the expenses of the house… from the other side the borrowed money issue and the rent of house… why you are not letting me… if I get a job the burden on your shoulders will also reduce… I don’ like jobless situation… all the day there are nonsense communications…
Haseeb: (With anxiety) don’t force me Shaheen… I told you that I don’t like that you go for a job…
Shaheen: Whatever I am saying; you are just saying your own words… I have still legs to work and whatever I am telling you, you are refusing… you think with yourself… then let me know…I don’t know why you are becoming an obstacle for me…
Haseeb: (With anger) it is enough Shaheen… I don’t have mood of these issues now…
