Twenty- five Seven

The Tale of the Two-Timing Tick-Tock

April 23, 2020

When we were growing up, a watch or clock made a sound that went Tick-Tock. And as babies, we were told that all watches went tick-tock.

However, modern watches do not go tick-tock, and yet we call them tick-tocks.

Hubby Dear who loves collecting watches realised that he had to keep his watches wound all the time so that the mechanism was kept in good shape.

One day, I found Wow Dinga walking about the house, shaking both his hands. I was wondering what kind of a new game he had invented and asked him what on earth he was doing.

I was amazed and bewildered when he said, “Tick-tock, Abu do.”

Tick-tock Abu do?
What did Abu do to bring forth such a mysterious comment?

I then realised that he was indeed copying his grandfather who wore his automatic watches over the weekend ( one on each wrist) and wound them by shaking his wrists.

That’s when I realised that he could not wear more than one watch at a time and needed a watchwinder.

I hope you are enjoying these little vignettes from my life with the Little People.

Ciao

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Of seagulls and gathias

April 22, 2020

Gathia is a popular Gujerati snack – deep-fried chickpea flour crispies that are favourite with every Mumbaikar. Oftentimes the mere mention of the word sets us drooling.

Now, what, you may ask, is the connection between the Gathias and the Seagulls?

Every winter the migratory gulls stopover in Mumbai like many of our own ‘snowbirds’. When the summer comes they fly back to cooler climes.

Unfortunately, these birds have become so fat and lazy feeding on the ‘gathia’ that they stay back only to die once temperatures rise.

One day, I was driving down Marine Drive with Little Po and Ms. Papaya. Suddenly, Little Po shouted to Ms. Papaya, “Look the sky is filled with ‘gathias’

I couldn’t see a single ‘gathia’ in the sky. It was filled with seagulls though. The twiblilngs were enthusiastically counting the ‘gathia’ when the penny dropped.

A few weeks earlier, Wow Dinga’s class had to spend one Sunday afternoon on Chowpatty beach and stop ardent bird ‘lovers’ from feeding the seagulls ‘gathias”.

So the next time Wow Dinga spotted some one feeding Seagulls on the beach he ran ahead and stopped him from feeding him.

The school is doing something right making the children aware that we should protect the earth and save birds like the Seagulls that make Mumbai their winter home.

Don’t you think so?

Ciao

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Quiet Please! Stop Noise Pollution

April 20, 2020

Good morning and welcome to another week of adventures with my Little People.

Quiet is something alien to Mumbai. The city that never sleeps has a busy hum to it even through the late hours of the night.

Bombay traffic is horrendous. Especially at peak time, cars are crawling bumper to bumper at peak time. And motorists have the awful habit of blowing their horns. As a matter of fact, for decades, ‘Horn OK , Please’ was the standard phrase decorating many trucks on the road.

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I sincerely believe that blowing the horn doesn’t make the car in front of you go any faster. Nor does it make the traffic signal change to green.

But most motorists don’t think so and drive with their hand instinctively placed on the horn. They seem to have horn blowing in their DNA.

One evening Hubby Dear was driving the boys home. It was getting late for their dinner time and he was in a rush to get them home. With four cars in front of him, reaching on time was a remote possibility. As was his habit, he honked not once but twice, indicating that the car ahead should move.

All at once,Wow Dinga pulled his hand off the horn and told him to stop.

“That’s noise pollution Abu. You should be QUIET!”

I think the newer generation is going to be more responsible and respectful of the environment than ever before. Especially with the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic.

Don’t you think so?

Ciao

I’m participating in the AtoZ2020 Challenge, a month-long blog hop where participants post 26 posts, one for every Alphabet, every day except Sundays.

Do join me as I share my adventures with my Little People.