by Marc de Souza (Navhind Times)
HOLIDAYS are so wonderful, but they can be hazardous to health. Take the two weeks our son suddenly announced he would be down for a fortnight.
When I went to the storeroom to look for the festive curtains my wife had tucked there, I couldn�t find them. I should have given up, gone out and bought new ones. Instead, I began to rearrange dust balls, open mystery boxes, look beneath and behind, I unearthed two old chairs I put away a few years ago, planning to get them recovered some day.
I called up an upholstery man who surprisingly seemed delighted to take away our old chairs and bring back, just a few days later, what appeared to be two brand new ones. My eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. Since the two new chairs made everything else look strange, we ended up rearranging the entire living room and the garden. And, of course, this made us realise that something must be done with the kitchen.
The next day, I went out and bought a chic kitchen stove. I had been treating my old gas stove with tender care, like a family heirloom, and it was almost old enough to be one. The bottom oven kept falling off, and I would spend a lot of time finding and replacing the one screw that hold it together. When the new stove came, the experienced servicemen couldn�t make it fit over the old vent, so they told me to just stuff a towel into the hole in the wall and not to worry. Uggh! There are servicemen and super servicemen.
Suddenly, the toaster started throwing temper tantrums. You know why? It decided it hates �povi�. I tried to baby talk to it. The loud mouth never listened. To make matters worse, this truant started getting violent. When I offered it a �povi�, it turned on its red toaster light, examined and then activated its reject-eject button. All of a sudden, the �povi� went flying across the kitchen counter. Obviously to correct this dangerous situation before our son arrived, I thought of going back to sliced bread, wondering where the toaster picked up its narrow-minded reject-eject idea.
So here we are homecoming parties and festivities planned � so busy redoing everything. After much furniture moving and removing, I�m so weak, every bone and muscle is singing � you know what? �You should a know better�.
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