Just in case you're fighting for the television remote with your parents or parent, just forget about it. Don't even think of arguing, it's not going to work at all, especially when both you and your parents or parent are on vacation. They always manage to over-power you some way or the other, after all, how can they be called our parents, if they aren't able to do a simple thing like over-powering us and getting a television remote. In fact you must always have a back-up plan, like a laptop or a computer, or something related to gaming or it could even be just a book! I'm telling you, no parent is going to fight with you for a game or even a book actually! Our parents are even more modern than us, no books, only television. Even if they want to read the book, they'll either feel lazy to snatch the book from you after seeing you glued to the book, or they'll just be happy to see you reading. But this experience is a bit different.
Well, it was mid-August and it was the monsoon season in India, even though it never really rained heavily. It was drizzling and we weren't in plans of doing something interesting, even if we went out. So outing was crossed from our list. I had a PSP, which was apparently out of charge, and I had no choice but to watch T.V. I thought of watching The Expendables, again, but my mother came in the way and changed the channel to some other channel which had some old Hindi song playing. I didn't bother at first, I just started encapsulating my mind into my game, even though my PlayStation was charging, I was too bored to care about 'not playing while the thing is charging'. It was practice which made me so oblivious to the fact that my mother enjoys, while, even though I was enjoying, I had to stick to one kind of entertainment!
My mother suddenly turned up the volume, just because she liked a song. I got infuriated as I wasn't able to listen to what was going on my game. "The song sucks, why don't you turn down the volume."
"Don't you have a more decent word to show your hatred towards the song?" my mother said indignantly.
"Who uses decent words to describe hatred?"
"I do"
"Yeah right, I know. If you get angry, the whole world will come to an end."
"Shut up!"
"See! Now who is using indecent language?"
"'Shut up' isn't that indecent."
"O'course it is, especially when it comes to people so decent like you." I pulled her leg.
"A'right, just be quiet for sometime."
"Turn down the volume."
"No! I won't!"
"Then I shan't keep quiet either."
"You will, as soon as you get glued to that violent game of your again."
"I need the volume turned down for that, and violence is modernity, and it is leisure and liberty, just like the city in the game."
"Do you really think, Toni Cipriani, going all round the city killing innocent people is liberty?"
"You don't get it do you? I'm talking about leisure for me, not those animated pedestrians!"
"Yeah so get back to leisure, my leisure is this song."
"Well, I am not asking you to turn the thing off, just turn down the volume."
"Oh God! Fine."
"Thank Goodness!"
She turned down the volume and continued listening to the song in a lower volume. I turned off my machine and asked my mom to pass me the remote, because I wanted to see if there was anything interesting for me to watch. "No! Play your dumb game."
"Just let me see, if there is anything interesting."
"These songs are interesting enough for me."
"But, not for me."
"I don't care!"
"I do"
"Toni Cipriani, must be getting bored, get him someone to kill!"
"He has killed about seventy people today, that's enough!"
"Then go help your grandmother."
"In what, cooking? Something I don't know?"
"Yeah! Go ahead learn something!"
"I have enough subjects to learn, I don't need Home Science coming in my way."
"Like you learn other subjects. Now, let me listen to the song.Shhhh!"
"For God's sake let me just see what's going on in other channels."
"You'll find something to watch, then I won't be able to listen to these songs!"
"What if that interests you?"
"It won't! Now be quiet!"
My mom and I fought for ages. Then my grandmother came in. "Keep that interesting serial!"
And we all fought together!
Hasta la Vista,
K
Well, it was mid-August and it was the monsoon season in India, even though it never really rained heavily. It was drizzling and we weren't in plans of doing something interesting, even if we went out. So outing was crossed from our list. I had a PSP, which was apparently out of charge, and I had no choice but to watch T.V. I thought of watching The Expendables, again, but my mother came in the way and changed the channel to some other channel which had some old Hindi song playing. I didn't bother at first, I just started encapsulating my mind into my game, even though my PlayStation was charging, I was too bored to care about 'not playing while the thing is charging'. It was practice which made me so oblivious to the fact that my mother enjoys, while, even though I was enjoying, I had to stick to one kind of entertainment!
My mother suddenly turned up the volume, just because she liked a song. I got infuriated as I wasn't able to listen to what was going on my game. "The song sucks, why don't you turn down the volume."
"Don't you have a more decent word to show your hatred towards the song?" my mother said indignantly.
"Who uses decent words to describe hatred?"
"I do"
"Yeah right, I know. If you get angry, the whole world will come to an end."
"Shut up!"
"See! Now who is using indecent language?"
"'Shut up' isn't that indecent."
"O'course it is, especially when it comes to people so decent like you." I pulled her leg.
"A'right, just be quiet for sometime."
"Turn down the volume."
"No! I won't!"
"Then I shan't keep quiet either."
"You will, as soon as you get glued to that violent game of your again."
"I need the volume turned down for that, and violence is modernity, and it is leisure and liberty, just like the city in the game."
"Do you really think, Toni Cipriani, going all round the city killing innocent people is liberty?"
"You don't get it do you? I'm talking about leisure for me, not those animated pedestrians!"
"Yeah so get back to leisure, my leisure is this song."
"Well, I am not asking you to turn the thing off, just turn down the volume."
"Oh God! Fine."
"Thank Goodness!"
She turned down the volume and continued listening to the song in a lower volume. I turned off my machine and asked my mom to pass me the remote, because I wanted to see if there was anything interesting for me to watch. "No! Play your dumb game."
"Just let me see, if there is anything interesting."
"These songs are interesting enough for me."
"But, not for me."
"I don't care!"
"I do"
"Toni Cipriani, must be getting bored, get him someone to kill!"
"He has killed about seventy people today, that's enough!"
"Then go help your grandmother."
"In what, cooking? Something I don't know?"
"Yeah! Go ahead learn something!"
"I have enough subjects to learn, I don't need Home Science coming in my way."
"Like you learn other subjects. Now, let me listen to the song.Shhhh!"
"For God's sake let me just see what's going on in other channels."
"You'll find something to watch, then I won't be able to listen to these songs!"
"What if that interests you?"
"It won't! Now be quiet!"
My mom and I fought for ages. Then my grandmother came in. "Keep that interesting serial!"
And we all fought together!
Hasta la Vista,
K
