Mincing Words - Not !!

Hello Everyone! I hope you all are doing good at your home in this deadly pandemic which has engulfed the normal way (as it used to be) of living life. The stimulus to write this piece came from a long-standing feeling that I have had for people who surround me and behave in a weird way. Most of the things which I write today might not be politically correct, so, consider this as a DISCLAIMER for the same. You can also choose not to read further as one of the situations which I describe might be what you have been in and rationalised it, but, I must say that 99% I won't feel the same.  So, to begin with, I would like to tell you the reason why I chose such an out of the place title - ' Pretending to be? '. This has been done to aptly describe a situation that I face on day to day basis i.e. people pretending to be something that they are not.  Either they are too sweet or too diplomatic to make sure that they are in someone's good books. This irritates me b...