guess i'm naughty :P

“K! You are very naughty!” she said. I met her just couple of hours before she made that conclusion!

I met her in the train, the past week. She was a young mother of a three year old. It was towards the later part of the evening and I helped myself onto the upper berth. Usually, the climate is cool with wind blowing across but the conventional rainfall which was unexpected then, made the situation a lot humid and that’s exactly when I had a tee-a-tee with ramya, I mean her.

I was lying flat on my belly and the over head fans had to be turned on. I tried tripping the switch to set them turning but I couldn’t reach so far. I tried calling an uncle sitting right next to the window who was almost snoring but silently, in vain. Seeing me do everything possible, she moved towards the switches and tripped them on! Oh ya, she was sitting with her kid on the lower berth, fondling her to bed. In order to express my gratitude, I slipped the words, “thank you aunty”.
It was just then, that I exchanged the most confusing and shocked expressions of my life time! “Aunty “! Can you believe that???

I am so habituated into calling every lady carrying a baby, aunty right from when I was a kid and that was also something, I used as petty prank to tease my cousins who were newly married! Though, I grew up, the thought remained the same and that hardly made any importance, to make it to my notice nor had I encountered such a situation before!!

Retracting to what I said, immediately after the cold expressions which hardly lasted couple of seconds, I said “you have a baby na, so you are an aunty but if you feel bad, you can call me uncle”! Sounds silly but she broke the cold expressions on her face with a bursting laughter!

Well, that’s was the most effective thing that I could manage making out, then!

Soon, smiles introduced each other and set us into conversation. She is a doctor by profession and well mannered with fast tongue and quick wit. I enjoyed our talk, though short, for about two hours, before she got down at her station. That’s when, she made her conclusion!

She is an excellent pen friend and perfect memorabilia to a train journey friendship!

PS: I really know I am naughty but I’ve scratched my head hard to make out what sounded naughty to her??? But the point is, being naughty can fetch friends too!!