Just two lanes away from where we lived, was a a super store called "Anu Departmental Stores"...
I grew up in that area buying something or the other from that shop... the moment I made an entry, I was lost and was always fascinated to see all the items neatly and nicely arranged...
If somebody needed something from that shop, I'd always volunteer to go, just to seize the opportunity to gaze at the stores and especially the chocolates... they had a separate chocolates section...but of all what I loved the most was a medium sized glass box which had chocolates in them, where the opening was towards the shop keeper.. :( I know! LOL
whenever somebody wanted to buy a chocolate, the shop keeper would open it so gracefully and slide the bars to the customers... I wish I could buy as many chocolates I wanted,... it was my obsession then, loved all of them and especially, "Perk", "Kit Kat", "Dairy Milk"and "Munch"!
Ha Ha ... I know, love for chocolate as a kid! can't be explained :)
This being the case, it was not just me, all my cousins were equally so addicted and loved chocolates...
There were times where we all cousins had tuff time to deal with moms when they forcefully shoveled their not so tasty foods into our mouths...
Horrendous used to be the scene, with great difficulty after completion...we all used to discuss, why can't people give us a plate full of Perk or KitKat you know as breakfast, Lunch and dinner
and we would happily eat with literally zero fuss!
No worry about the diet, no worry about the fat, nor the sugars! It was just the innocent love for chocolates!
One day afternoon after lunch it so happened that, as most of the weekends would, we all had gather around grandpa and were pestering him to narrate stories, (he was an amazing story teller...
everything from his mouth were like Golden lines for us! we all loved him!)... he then asked all of us, okie what would you like to do, if I made all of you kids invisible!?'
We were amazed by the idea!, (we were all within the age band of 10-11 years old)... there were zillion thoughts across all our brains... we were busy thinking, suddenly something sprang up to me!
I was so excited and thrilled to tell to grandpa what I would do... and I started saying,
Me : "Thata ( Grandpa in kannada), I will say first, what I would do...
Grandpa: Okie, will you tell us first my dear, okie go on...
Me: I'l become invisible, hmmm...I want to become invisible only at nights when parents are fast asleep...
And then, I would wanna go to "Anu Departmental Stores" through the closed doors...
Grandpa: with a confused look, (as why I wanted to go there) and then...
Me: Eat all the chocolates in the store until I get tired and also put the remaining in all the pockets and also in a bag and silently come home and sleep... and distribute the chocolates to everybody
and we will not have to have aunty's bad dosa...
Grandpa had already started laughing at my idea.. without any more further discussions, he went to his room, fetched a 100 Rs note from his shirt pocket and asked us to go and get as many chocolates as we wanted :)!
We all were so over joyed, and super excited...
all of us wanted to go to the store... all 8 of us hurriedly went on to the store and really bought whatever we wanted...
Our joy had no bounds! we were truly a bunch of happy kids for the rest of the week!
Once when we were done with the quota of chocolates for the day, Grandpa called us all for a story telling after the dinner and said,
"So you did have what you wanted, now the lesson... remember, don't ever dare to commit a mistake knowingly, thinking that nobody sees or notices you, there is always a person who sees what you do and thats none other than you,
Don't cheat your inner, when you know something is wrong you should never do it!, however small or grave the mistake is.. mistake is a mistake once committed and could cost entire life...."
and something more on that lines, which I don't remember very well...
Now when I recollect this, its so true what my Grandpa said...
I see the innocence in me(in my cousins or another kid in general) - as a kid...
But how adulthood with maturity and modesty teaches or imbibes so many other side effects,
probably if such a question was posed to an adult...I don't know how bad/selfish/greedy the answers would be! really...
1 comments:
"why can't people give us a plate full of Perk or KitKat you know as breakfast, Lunch and dinner and we would happily eat with literally zero fuss! " - hahaha.. how sweet !!
very nice post kano.. am always your big fan for these kind of posts.. love to read them again and again.. especially when you write anything from your childhood and where your Tatha is involved.. it's always worth it.. like this one ..wherein he gave you all a 100 Rupee note, made you happy and at the same time thought you a valuable lesson!!.. too good.!!
hmm .. those good old days.. when someone gives you a chocolate.. no matter which chocolate it is.. the happiness was enormous!! and then we will literally be loyal to them.
and speaking about stores which had chocolates.. I was lucky that Dad owned one and every time I go the store.. I used to grab a chocolate for sure : ) my hands straight into that glass jar : )
hmm.. Perk, Kit Kat, Munch and Dairymilk ..give me all, please.. !! ; )
p.s.. so I hope you won't stop me from buying a chocolate, next time around, when we go to Tesco : )
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