The kind of posts I am writing makes one wonder if I am totally a serious guy; which I am actually not. Humor is a part of my life - something that keeps me cheerful all the way. Recently, I laughed out more than usual because of a real life incident. Almost everyone bursted out into laughter as I shared the experience and a few felt I should blog it to reach more people. And that's why this one..
It was just another day and I was chatting with my brother who is in UK. Incidentally, one of our cousins came to see him and I said hello to him. He has a daughter aged 3, who has been to India just a couple of times and I had seldom met her. So, the first time we saw each other was on a WebCam.
Though Bhanavi is her name, she feels good when someone calls her "Naughty-Bhanavi"; and she just keeps on exploring ways to make people call her that way reflexly. It took some time for her to get acquainted to me, after which she fluently unfurled her pranks. She sang a few rhymes, played with crayons, danced a bit and showed me a few pictures of animals in her books. One of them was a Starfish. I asked her, "Where do you find a Star?"
She didn't have to think much. "Sky," she replied.
"Where do you find a Fish?"
"Water." She took much less time for this question.
"So, where do you find a Starfish?"
But for the earlier questions, she would have replied instantly. She took some time and replied confidently, "Water!"
I wanted to pull her legs. "If Star is in the Sky, Fish is in the Water, then, Starfish has to be in between - on the Land, isn't it?"
She didn't seem confused at all. She was confident with the answer she gave, yet, she could not convince me. She tried her best but I stuck to my question expressing my dissatisfaction to her answer.
She turned to her dad. "Papa, the person we are talking to... Does he really exist or is he only in the Computer?"
This time, her daddy and I found it hard to convince her!