Daddy: Say bye-bye to Auntie and Uncle.
I won’t say. I don’t like, I want to go home.
Daddy: Hahaha! Okay! Bye!
Daddy turned key like that, now we are going.
Daddy! You know? Amma cried.
I am sitting in Amma ka lap. The sun is up up, means sun ate food also. Just like me. Now na, sun is playing in sky, na, so only hmmm…, in sky blue colour is there
Achully, I want to sit alone, not in Amma ka lap. Daddy, I’ll sit there? In your back
Daddy: NO! Sit here only
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Daddy, you know? Amma cried.
Daddy: Okay. Wait now, don’t talk, that bloody bastard is going to cross the road when my light turns green
Bloody bastard?
Daddy: You shut up! Mind your tongue!
Oh
I should not say
Bloody bastard
There is one big truck in front, all dirty is coming in my car. Means like black black
Truck went away
Daddy closed his eyes, then he made his face become together. That thing he is making in his face, means bite teeth like this. Then like that one line comes. Now Daddy opened his eyes.
Daddy: Dammit! Lost my green light! I can barely keep my eyes open
Daddy! See? That light yellow became on. Means someone is sitting inside? Daddy?
Daddy: No, no one is sitting inside.
Then how that yellow light is onning and offing
Daddy: What a long time this signal is taking! All because of that damned truck! Aaahaa-ummm!
Daddy! How that light became on?
Daddy: SHUT UP! On off! If you keep playing with the switches, they will just get spoilt. Then I will have to get all the light switches repaired. All these things cost money!
I’m saying this road ka light on-off on-off
Daddy: Oh that, I’m speaking from a higher perspective. I am saying, in the house, you should not play. You are becoming a bad girl, not eating, spoiling ALL the switches…
I am angry with Daddy
I will cross my hands like Daddy, means I am angry… one more green light came, if I look and look at green, then it will be red. Arre, Daddy didn’t stop. I want to see it become to red. Daddy I want to see it become to red
Daddy: You don’t want to see any such thing!
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This Daddy no
I am katti only, with this daddy!
Go!
My book of short stories , The Violent Potter, is about how children feel within a family ‘system’ and how love works, sometimes outside the system. It’s available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle.
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