When my neighbour sent me a fabulous bottle of pickles, I was happy but I did wonder why would anyone name their creation as ‘Bad mama’? It was only when my daughter started laughing hysterically that I wore my glasses to find that the bad was ‘Badi’!
In the past, when a friend ‘goggled’ to find answers and sent messages saying that she ‘lived’ us all, the children would be in splits. Given how tech-savvy our children are, it could not be blamed on autocorrect. I was extremely proud of not needing glasses and wore it as a badge of my having kept good eye hygiene through my life. After all, how else can you tell your children how good habits are useful?
But pride comes before many a fall. I postponed getting glasses even when the font on my kindle started increasing steadily to the point of there being only 4 sentences on a page. The rare times when I was buying groceries in a store, I sought help from the salesperson to read the price on the items. I don’t understand who the companies think they are selling to? It is only after a certain age that you can afford to buy certain delicacies and you need to buy certain items like supplements and flax seeds. I often rejected products because I found the company unmindful of the trauma they were causing.
Anyway, getting glasses brought life back in focus. I carry my glasses on a string when I go shopping. I look from over my glasses to talk to people much to the amusement of my kids. Oh, I am much more empathetic to people of advancing years. I still don’t need glasses for distance so unlike my husband, I can recognize people on the road and hide when necessary.
The other day I had put on subtitles for the show I wanted to watch. Well, the show is in English and I am generally able to follow the accents of people from the western world. Of late though they have started speaking in a manner that makes it necessary for me to turn up the volume. Ah well. Maybe watching Indian news where they speak in Hindi and repeat everything a million times would be a better idea. After all, there is nothing wrong with my hearing!
Fun read! Looking forward to more
Enjoyed reading! Can relate to it!
Both sound so familiar. You have expressed it so beautifully.
I once called the ration shop saved as Ration in contacts without my specs but my nephew’s friend Ravin, a dental surgeon picked up.and recognised my voice and said ‘masi I haven’t changed my profession.’ we both had a good laugh. Have been embarrassed repeatedly doing the same thing.
Haha! It is so good to know that others also made similar goof-ups.
Actually enjoyed reading about the pickle and the bad mama …for a moment when you told me about bad mama I wondead if I had been called bad mama.
Tanu you have a way with words and manage to catch the full attention of the reader.
Do keep writing.
Thanks!