Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Our Hearts' Desire

The car, a gleaming silver Honda City, came home on Monday afternoon after the raahu kaalam, and after making its first trip to the church for a tryst (a blessing, I mean) with our parish priest. We Malayalis, whatever our religion or sect, generally (in case some of you object) like to abide by a few rituals and superstitions.

A threesome - V, myself and my dad - being an inauspicious number to make the trip to Sundaram Honda, we took Ash (who has missed school this week owing to an increasingly itchy skin after breaking diet rules) to reach the magic number of 4 or at least 3 1/2. Which turned out to be a not very wise decision for the first thing we got was a gift pack of Cadburys Celebrations. All through the delivery process - signing papers, providing feedback to the PR manager, recorded chanting of mantras (with Chennai and TVS being religiously Hindu) as V got into the car and until we left - Ash clutched it dearly. I tried to make him believe it was a box of necklaces since there was a picture of the rakhi thread with a chocolate pendant on the cover. He went home, had a packet of Gems and later Crackles and has been miserably itchy every since. It might take a week now for his system to clear all the cocoa residues.

Ash had been asking us to get a car with a kombu/horn (as in a cow's) ever since he travelled in a Ford Fiesta with an aerial for the radio reception. He went for black cars while Mira preferred the red ones. Predictable.

3 comments:

ush said...

congrts again. hope to see pics soon.
tke care

Anya Padyam said...

Congratulations on the new car!!!

Ladybird said...

Thanks, thanks!

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