Aththai's car!

Last week Kavin's friend Aaditya came to our home after finishing their karate lessons. Usually his grandfather comes to pick him up. But that day, Aaditya's aththai(paternal aunt) came to pick him up. She has a red swift car and her two kids also came along with her. Kavin was very impressed with the car. So after they left, Kavin started wondering aloud-"When will my aththai come to pick me up from school in her car with her children?"
I told him that no problem with the car, but to have kids she has to get married first. So he started making a plan-"Let's get aththai married, and I'll ask her to buy a car(preferably an i-10 automatic). Then she can have babies and then she can come to pick me up."

So aththai----lots of expectations(read positive ones) from the young man!

Cars, cars, cars and more cars!

Since last one year, I have been witnessing CAR-O-MANIA in our home. Both dad and son keep talking about cars whenever we go out, whenever we are eating or whenever an advertisement appears on TV or news-paper. I remember once Volkswagon had given a crazy ad in Times of India in which an electronic speaker was fixed to the last page of the paper and as soon as you open the paper, the speaker will start and a male's voice start telling about their new car Vento. It was so irritating, these kids had taken the device out and took it to the school and were playing there. I guess it was photosensitive. Few of them got punished too ;-)




Anyway, coming back to the main topic, Kavin has become a huge car-lover. He knows almost every brand of cars on road(including every SUV). And he can tell which car it is by just looking at the logo. It's amazing. He also knows the functions of various switches and knobs inside the car which I have never bothered to examine ever. Whenever inside, he keeps asking non-stop questions about many things related to the car. It's crazy.



And he wants to look at the dashboard of every car that is parked either in the parking lot or around our house. It's so embarrassing sometimes. He acts like a village peasant who's never seen a car before.

But sometimes we feel that it's okay, at least he has so many questions and he's curious to find out the answers :)