We often tend to think of a date in our lives as a passing affair, but ever wondered if what if that one date was taken out of the sequence of your life (hmmm...deep thoughts..... Here's mine):
Date 1 : 5th April 1990(about 5 years old):
The grand events of this day have been told to me in several witty-familial versions, but the central idea has been the same - how I was a tiny chaos agent!
Since I was the first(read: 'special'..yup !!) grandchild, Grandpa used to take me out as his evening walk VIP companion(I would flaunt this to my siblings and cousins that I was the favorite one !!). Close to where we used to walk, there were coral wood trees, which showered its red seeds like a carpet all around the walking area. This, to a five year old, is the equivalent of viral plush toy collectibles of the current Gen A - but FREE and lying in the dirt !. My eyes always focused on those and I always made it a point to bring home as many as my tiny fists could !
That day, I decided to put one of them in my nostril to see what happens - now, at five, you have the curiosity of a NASA scientist but the risk assessment of a lemming !! I shoved it in my nose and it went up there. Chaos ensued : I panicked, in turn, my grandpa did too and I was rushed on emergency basis to the ENT specialist. Without much fuss, the seed was removed and I was given clear, stern instructions on how dangerous things might have been.
Date 2: 18 April 1990
All said and done, I went back to the VIP walks.
My 'genius' brain whispered: 'Hey, remember that thing that almost killed us? Let's do a sequel' !
I shove the seed up my nose(again),panic(again), run to my grandpa(again)-but, this time around he's calm - turns me around like a clogged ketchup bottle and Thwack ON MY BACK!! The seed whooshes out ! My grandpa turns into a professional seed launcher !
Years later, as Grandpa neared the end of his life, he didn't want to talk about life lessons, his pick was the date of my nasal adventure(s). Now, I tell this story to my own kids. If this date hadn't happened, they’d think I was a responsible adult instead of a child who tried to turn her nose into a seed-dispenser. It remains the reigning champion of "Mom Was a Menace" stories -starting a laughing riot at every family gathering. It turns out, of all the things he did in his life, his favorite achievement was successfully launching a seed out of his granddaughter’s nose !
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