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We were on a treat to “Unnale Unnale” sometime back. Some were bugged and some watched the movie for a time pass. At a stage when people started getting really bored, this happened. There was a point when the heroine wanted to meet the hero and apologise. When she came to meet the hero, a kid behind us remarked, “Ippo I am sorry nu solla pora illa??” (The heroine is now gonna say, “Am sorry” right?). The entire crowd burst into laughter. Cho chweet kid!!!!

Kids are just terribly sweet. Once my kutti cousin had come home and my sis prepared Peas pulao for him. Later, my sis started reading and clarified with dad regarding the Power of Attorney . They both were talking so much about the Power of Attorney that when she came back for lunch and served Peas pulao to my cousin, he just exclaimed, “The power of pattaani!!”. (pattani in Tamil means Peas).

This cousin (whom I was talking about in the previous instance) was always our victim, esp. coz he was the youngest among us and the only boy :P. He was attending Abacus classes and one day, as we were going out in auto, we started asking him about the classes. A small boy, he’d generally put a big scene and as usual he said that he can add and subtract any two digit numbers within seconds. So we started with what is 47-29, 83-42, 64-18 and so on. He would use his fingers, do some calculation and give the right answers within seconds (we weren’t checking much for we took more time :P ). Finally, we asked him what is 98-97, he accidentally calculated that too using his fingers and then exclaimed 1 just to see us bursting into a loud and heavy laughter. He found the driver laughing too and started fighting and showing his face and all that. Whenever we meet him, we ask him what’s 98-97 only to see him grow red.

This happened as soon as this boy started riding a bicycle. He saw his elder sister and her friends walking along the road. He wanted to show off and he shouted “Hoodibabaaaa!!!!!” letting both his hands high up in the air. There was a big pit and you should have realised by now what would have happened J. The girls started giggling, filmy types eh??

We had a neighbour who had two kids and both of them were damn sweet and attached, they used to spend all their time at our place. I remember takin the younger one (he should have been four years old then) in my two-wheeler. I was so worried about him sitting behind and kept telling him to hold on to me tightly. He knew that I was worried and whenever I raised the speed, he would leave both his hands, hold them freely up in the air and shout “Sagiye!!” in the typical Madhavan style in the song “Pachai Nirame” and I will have to stop my vehicle then, only to see him laughing. This kept happening throughout the drive.

A one year old baby. A few relatives had a get together one day and were having dinner seated in a big circle. She was crawling behind us and found my mom who was tying a similar-coloured saree as her mom. So she tried standing up, holding my mom (whose face she didn’t see), hugging her and caressing her. Slowly she peeped and looked into my mom's face (just like that). Man, you should’ve seen her expession then, it was the movie types, where at the first glance she didn’t realise, but the next second, she glanced at her again, her eyes grew big and she immediately moved away. We broke into a big laughter and she laughed with us too not knowing why :-) . And sometime back, my aunt and uncle had come over with this baby to our place. That day she saw our maid coming and washing the utensils in the balcony. The next day the maid came and smiled at the baby and she was shocked to see this baby show her hand to the utensils in the balcony directing the maid to go and wash them. Our maid was awestruck J. She said she will never forget it. J

There was a mason we knew and he had a real cute kid. The boy was around 5 years, he was cute and had a sharp, shrilled way of talking. His Tamil was terrific, the typical Madrasi language. He would shout “Yekkaaaaaaoo” to me and I would shout back “Call me Akka” and he would shout again, “Yekkaao inga vaayen”. He would turn to my mom and say “Aundy” and my mom would say “Dey, naan aandi innum aala da, aunty-nu koopdu” and he would come back the next day saying Aundy again. One day he shouted “Aundy , tea pathikkudhu aundy”, we later realised what he meant was that the tea was very hot. And lots more, the chap was the sweetest.. now he’d have become a big boy, we really miss him.

Am sure everybody would have splendid unforgettable experiences with kids, maybe you can share them here :-). In the meanwhile , let me check if I remember more...