Of tales and tribulations
Wifey: “Arisi upma panna saapduvingala”
Me: “Yaar pannalum saapduven”
That goes with a typical look which is accompanied by unmentionables in comics, with a balloon mind voice picturing danger symbols and other regular expressions. Her biggest worry is Junior picking on the mokkais. He is very keen to watch out for any different tones in conversations and has a knack for picking the mokkai ones quicker. Ever since I had to wfh, my worry was how will junior take it. I was wondering if he would ever allow me to take calls and open laptop. For it involves two things he is very fond of – mobile and laptop. But, touchwood, he had taken things really well and has been extremely supportive as well. Whenever I say I have to close the door to take calls, he would wave me bye and whenever I used to step out for a bit, he would ask me is office work done to make sure if I can join him for playing. Nowadays, he has started his own “office” hours and tasks. He would say that he has office work to do, if anyone calls him for eating or sleeping. He would play with his toys, enact all Jurassic park movie scenes with self-dubbing for all of the toys and call them as his office tasks. He wouldn’t allow anyone to disturb him and would be very “seriously playing”. The taboo word for him is “sleep”. The moment someone mentions THE word, he would run away from that place and would hide behind anyone standing or sitting. After ensuring he manage to delay the sleeping time to the extent possible, we would somehow manage to drag him to bed. The minute he lies down, his mom has to tell him “Ramayam”. He would interrupt every sentence of the story and would somehow include dinosaurs into the scene. Instead of them flying on pushpaka vimana it would often be a pterodactyl and the rakshasas would include Tyrannosaurus rex. He would tire himself out to sleep every day, shuttling between us and his grandma’s place, which often goes on till 1 AM. Wonder how we are going to get back to the old routine when the new normal expires!!!
Me: “Yaar pannalum saapduven”
That goes with a typical look which is accompanied by unmentionables in comics, with a balloon mind voice picturing danger symbols and other regular expressions. Her biggest worry is Junior picking on the mokkais. He is very keen to watch out for any different tones in conversations and has a knack for picking the mokkai ones quicker. Ever since I had to wfh, my worry was how will junior take it. I was wondering if he would ever allow me to take calls and open laptop. For it involves two things he is very fond of – mobile and laptop. But, touchwood, he had taken things really well and has been extremely supportive as well. Whenever I say I have to close the door to take calls, he would wave me bye and whenever I used to step out for a bit, he would ask me is office work done to make sure if I can join him for playing. Nowadays, he has started his own “office” hours and tasks. He would say that he has office work to do, if anyone calls him for eating or sleeping. He would play with his toys, enact all Jurassic park movie scenes with self-dubbing for all of the toys and call them as his office tasks. He wouldn’t allow anyone to disturb him and would be very “seriously playing”. The taboo word for him is “sleep”. The moment someone mentions THE word, he would run away from that place and would hide behind anyone standing or sitting. After ensuring he manage to delay the sleeping time to the extent possible, we would somehow manage to drag him to bed. The minute he lies down, his mom has to tell him “Ramayam”. He would interrupt every sentence of the story and would somehow include dinosaurs into the scene. Instead of them flying on pushpaka vimana it would often be a pterodactyl and the rakshasas would include Tyrannosaurus rex. He would tire himself out to sleep every day, shuttling between us and his grandma’s place, which often goes on till 1 AM. Wonder how we are going to get back to the old routine when the new normal expires!!!
Comments
Ditto Similar scene here- but . I'm worried about going back to work after the lockdown ends
The same scene is being repeated in countless households. Kids are playing WFH, complete with ordering others not to disturb. What has the world come to :)
And I am just imagining the plight of your better half, with all your mokkai's