Dud Sea Scrawls The Writing, clearly, is not on the wall!

Mother has this peculiar habit of starting off with some comment or discussion by thinking about something in her mind. Somehow she assumes we would be privy to her thoughts and hence we will understand the subject. We do understand it most of the times but it does lead to hilarious situations at times. Hilarious for me but dad and sister get irritated. Well, they don’t have as much patience as I do. I simply wait for her to realize, which she will do pretty soon, that I have not heard of the prologue! They don’t have even that much patience and often tease her to start any topic by saying “This is what I am going to talk about in next few minutes and I will strictly stick to that topic”

Seems Dad had taken her to purchase some sarees during the week, two to be exact. Dad does most of the selections and I should confess his selections are good most of the times. Strangely mom likes it. She is one of those odd females who does not like to shop. Off late we find some of his selections does not suit mom. May be his taste is going down though mom always teases him that he is not looking at proper people while he is traveling to work and she is no longer as young as the ladies who take the bus. So Mom took him with her after he promised he will sit in a corner without interfering with the selections.

As they say habits die hard. Though he managed to keep quite till she selected two sarees , he could not control the desire to buy one of his selections also. Mom reluctantly agreed though she felt the saree would not look good on her. After all he had managed to accepted her selections and this was only an extra one. I had not seen any of the sarees till she wore one yesterday. Immediately I pointed out that it does not look that good on her and she should better wear it when she is not going out. Mom gladly accepted my findings and told the whole story which I have faithfully narrated above ! Sister was also sitting in the living room then.

Mom – ‘I should stop listening your father’s advices. She ( sis ) keeps telling me about it and only now I am realizing it’
Sister –‘ See, from how many years I am telling not to say yes to dad blindly. Do what you want. Don’t listen to him for everything’
Me – ‘ What happened now? You can wear other two sarees while going out and use this at home. Anyway they are not so costly’
Sister – ‘Still it’s a waste right? Why should she agree to buy it in first place if she does not like it. That’s why I tell her to take her own decisions’
Mom – ‘I am realizing that lately. I should not have accepted his advice when he said we will have two children. I was happy with only one’
[Sister took sometime to understand what mom meant, by then I was ROFL ]
Sister ( clearly embarrassed at my laugh )– ‘ You were telling about this all along? I thought we are talking about saree. I support you and this is what I get in return’
Mom ( still keeping a serious tone ) – ‘Its true. I wanted boy and your dad wanted a girl. Since aNNa ( big brother ) was born first, your dad wanted a girl and I agreed thinking second one will also be a boy who will just as good as first one’
I was more happy to see sister not able to have a last say in the argument

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Had been to a temple recently and we sitting in a line to watch the Abhishekam. This small girl was sitting on her mother’s lap next to us. She should not be more than 3 years old I guess. She was obviously finding it difficult to see the Abhishekam the deity and stood up to have a clear look. After few minutes person sitting behind the girl asked her mother to make the child sit on her lap as she was obstructing the vision.
Mother told her daughter that people at the backside were complaining and she should not stand up. The poor girl sat back but after few minutes asked her mother ‘ Mamma, They tell me not to stand up. If I don’t stand up how I can watch the God, how will I ask Him to protect us’ ( Amma, avaru nanna ninthkobeda anthare. Ninthkolde horde devaranna hege nodli, hege kapaduuu antha kelkolli ) !! I am not sure the person who complained heard the child but if she had she would have regretted her comments immensely !
Children and their innocent mind