2009- Cant lie so atleast let me hide the truth

He is not allowed to play out only during the exam week. But our man cant take such inhuman ristrictions so what does he do ...when he got his exam time table today, he "accidentally" forgot to show it to mom! So we thought its a regular week and he conveniently did both - Play and write exams.

After 2 exams when shilpa asked him to study some subject, he was inclined to study something else ..Shilpa had a doubt, so she goes to our neighbor and enquires ...and his act is caught (Yet again :( )

2009-Challenging Dad with creativity

Shikhar has strict TV viewing rules (Atleast thats what we think..because he always gets his way talking to his grand parents) ....when we reach home at 6PM, smoky (Our weieramaraner) starts barking ..a good indication that we have arrived. So he has 50seconds to turn off the TV and run to his room ...

ACT1: He hears the dog bark, switches off the TV and sits on the diwan

ACT1 Caught: I switch on the TV, cartoon network is coming ...he is caught.

ACT2: This time he gets more creative ..He hears the dog bark, switches off the TV and runs to his room.

ACT2 Caught: I go to his room and he is panting...ask him why, he is caught

ACT3: He hears the dog bark, he changes the channel and then switches off

ACT3 Caught: I switch on the TV, press swap button, voila! Cartoon network ..he is caught

ACT4: He hears the dog bark, he changes channels few times and then switches off

ACT4 Caught: I switch on the TV, some weird channel is on ...was sure it was cheekoo's work. But this time, I lock all kids channel and switch off

ACT5: He swiches on the TV, uses the remote to unlock all channels. View it and then lock it again and switch off.

ACT5 (Not caught): I got to know he was watching TV from the maid ...so I lock them again but when I am off to office, hide the remote :) ...As of now status quo!, he is yet to use his creativity to beat me.

I am not scolding him or saying a word about the whole thing. ....just playing along to see where his creativity outbeats my policing! ...Hope he uses his creativity for the right reasons when he grows up.

2005 - Dream

Asked him what he wanted to become when he grows up. He said,

" I want to put "vesha" (costumes) and go begging house to house" !! ...

He always liked to put on the Diety/Kings custumes so he just extended his passion to his dream job.

2009 - Phonebook

Accidentally got a glimpse of his phonebook ...Surprisingly had only girls' number in that. I had a good reason to pull his leg ...so asked him,

"How come you have only girls' number in your phone book?" What he said next without wasting a second was amazing ...

" I remember all the boys numbers as I call them regularly so put only the numbers I dont remember because I dont call them" :)

2009 - Earning 50Rs

One day, suddenly our man has 30Rs in pocket! We always gave him 10Rs on friday as snack money which he religously spent ..so there was no way he could have that 30Rs in his pocket ...So was curious to know how he got it so started inquiry ..

First question where he got the money, his eyes watered ..so was sure, the next thing he would say would be a "Dhamaka" ...

After the needed persuation, he told me that our neighbor (same age as his) gave him ..I called that guy and asked him why he had given 30Rs to Cheekoo ...he said, "No uncle I gave him 50Rs" !! I was zapped ..When I asked him why he gave him that money he said ...

" Uncle, he told me next time you take the kids out, he will refer my name to accompany you. For referring my name, he asked for 50Rs" !!

Everytime I took the kids out, normal practice was to pick 6 kids and ask them to choose one each so that we have a different crowd everytime we go and they get a chance to network with other kids. But my son found a business case in my noble cause and made money!!!

To showoff his "earning" skills, he had planned this much earlier and discussed with other kids before he implemented his brilliant idea. When he got the 50Rs, he spent 20Rs on all other kids to celebrate his first earnings ! Icing on the cake was that the kid who gave him 50Rs had stolen that money from his house!!, that was more worrying ...

Peer pressure I guess ...