Kids Aaj Kal

Disclaimer - All things mentioned here are based upon true stories (and hazy memories).

Scene One

Date - around 1978
Time - around noon
Location - a house somewhere in Lucknow
Participants - a mother and her 2-3 years old kid

Mom - Are you gonna eat this chapati or not?
Kid - I don't wanna eat.
Mom - Why?
Kid - (starts wailing) Waaaaaaahhhhh...

Mom - Why you don't want to eat?
Kid - (wailing continues) Waaaaaaahhhhh...
Mom - Eat it otherwise....
Kid - (mom's threat works) It is too hot.
Mom breaks the chapati to cool it down.

Kid - (wailing resumes) Waaaaaaahhhhh...
Mom - Now what?
Kid - You tore my chapati...
Mom - but betu, this is how we cool it.

Kid - You tore my chapati... waaaaaaahhhhh....
Mom - Oho... ok, here, have a new one.
Kid - Waaaaaahhh... I want same chapati...  इसको जोड़ के दो... join it again...

I don't remember what happened next (did I mention that I was 'the kid').


Scene Two

Year - 2011 (26th Sep, 8:45 pm to be precise)
Location - a flat at Noida
Participants - a mother and her 2.9 years old kid - Piku

Mom - Are you gonna eat this apple or not?
Kid - I don't wanna eat.
Mom - Why?
Kid - (starts wailing) Waaaaaaahhhhh...

Mom - Why you don't want to eat?
Kid - (wailing continues) Waaaaaaahhhhh...
Mom - Eat it otherwise....
Kid - (mom's threat works again) Its skin is too thick.
Mom peels the apple .

Kid - (wailing resumes) Waaaaaaahhhhh...
Mom - Now what?
Kid - It has seeds....
Mom cuts the apple and removes all seeds.
Kid - (wailing resumes) Waaaaaaahhhhh...
Mom - Now what?
Kid - You cut the apple I wanted to eat...
Mom - but betu, that's how we remove the seeds.

Kid - You cut my apple... waaaaaaahhhhh....
Mom - Oho... ok, here, have a new one.
Kid - Waaaaaahhh... I want same apple...  इसको जोड़ के दो... join it...

This time I remember what happened next... I ate the apple :)




6 comments:

Mahesh said...

Best example of Inheritance....

You tore my chapati...(Anand Sir)

You cut the apple..... (Piku)

Kuch cheeje kabhi nahi badlati.... Kal Aaj aur .....

Siddhartha Tungare said...

Pay back time :)

Shailendra Verma said...

:) :) :) :) :) :)

Wah Gul.....

Abhishek Mitra said...

Bhool gaye ..... chapati chkha hoga tab ..... aur ab apple :D

Ajoy Bariar said...

We have seen the same happenings since last thee generations, but fist was a Suger Cane .

Anand Mohan Shrivastava said...

@Mahesh - Apne girebaan mein bhi dekh lo ek baar :P
@Siddhartha - right said! 2 panktiyan arz hain "jo boye ped babool ka, to aam kahan se hoye"
@Shailu - hanso mat. tumhara bhi no. aayega :P
@Mitra - you are right, i didn't eat the apple, only tasted it :D
@Bariar Uncle - if I might have known about sugar cane, I would have titled my post as "Kids Aaj Kal aur Parso" :) Thank you!

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