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You can’t help but howl with laughter when…

…you and your friend are sitting at her house chatting, when suddenly her mother bursts into the room saying, “Its beginning to rain. Come quickly to the terrace. We must remove our clothes.”
(remove our clothes from the clothes-line where they are drying or else they’ll get wet in the rains, she meant)

…you walk into a toy store to buy something for your three-year-old nephew when a man who’s already looking at some stuff says something to the salesperson and suddenly the salesperson shouts out to another, “Sir wants big balls…show him some”

…in the theatre, two rows ahead of you, a six or seven year old, thinking that she’s whispering but actually loud enough for all to hear, says to her mother, “Mom, I can’t see anything because of this fat aunty sitting in front of me”

…the woman standing in line ahead of you at the laundry, after an impatient wait of ten minutes, indignantly shouts out to the person manning the counter, “Why won’t you remove my clothes ? I’ve been waiting for ten minutes now !”
(remove my clothes from the shelf and hand them to me, she meant)

…you are in bumper-to-bumper traffic and seemingly will be stuck here for an eternity and the kid on the two-wheeler next to yours says to his mother, “Mama, I have to go potty now !”


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Mukul Katkar said…
Nice anecdotes :)
14 June 2012 at 18:18
The Wanderer said…
:) Thanks Mukul.
14 June 2012 at 20:00
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