Saturday, August 30, 2008

twice in 2 days

I was going home from office one day as i suddenly developed this fever "i don't want to be in office today". I think someone was really really jealous that i was going home barely after i reached office, that they must have done some kind of that voodoo or black magic stuff and really cursed me. I was happily cruising at 16.2 mph, and since i hate the main roads i had taken my favourite shortcut - from ambattur estate you dive into potholes and get bumped occassionally by roads and by the time you reach avadi {thats 10 kms} your spine moves 10 nothches up at least 536 times. Now where was I? I  get carried away too quickly. Like when i was school {2 years ago} my mom asked me to go to the provision store next to our house and get some milk or some stuff like that. I marched off. went to the shop. the nadar was busy. so i sat on those gunny bags meant to store stuff to feed cows. I occassionally used to eat animal fodder and got a nickname "Kannukutti" which means "calf" in tamil. Since i used spend at least 4 hours of training every day, {i was an athlete} used to run the 400 meters {50.6 seconds, really fast} , i was very tired. I used get up at 3.55 a.m. every morning, eat one of those chick peas that my dad used to soak overnight, board the train at avadi and reach the medical college grounds around 6. If you arrive late you'll run alone and do twice the amount of workout. My coach Mr. Victor Wilson was a real task master. Now where was I?..........Yes i went to sleep on the Gunny bags. The nadar being a very nice man let me sleep and asked the other customers to place their orders softly lest they wake me up. My mother had completely forgotten that she had sent her son to the provision store, continued with her chores and fed the rest of the family. As she was about to lock the door she realised there was an empty pillow and realised that she had 3 children and not 2. It dawned on her that she had left her last darling lamb outside, and promptly came to the provision store to look for me. My mom aslo gets very distracted. Like when she was flying to Vienna, I saw her through the entrance. She was supposed to check-in and then come back and say bye to me. She only called me after she reached Vienna. I waited almost 3 hours at the entrance. LOL. My mother. excused. So when she came to the provision store she got carried away {not noticing me sleeping there} ordered for half a KG of potato, some tamarind, raw rice, lemon for lemon rice the next day, and  various assorted stuff for the household. I'm sure she must have looked at me sleeping on the gunny bag and must have thought, "which soulless mother has left her child at the provision store". And went back home. The point I'm trying to make here is....what?