Uncle Lift

When I go to office I go through a school area and I find kids putting up their thumb for lift. I find it great fun to give them a lift. Kids with huuuuuuuuge bags on their shoulders not even able to walk to school should be given a lift I suppose. I hate the Indian education system where there is lots of studying and lots of books. With very little focus on the overall development of the child.

I go to office late these days because of client calls and take the opportunity to drop my falt mate to his office. And today while coming back after dropping him, I found this kid who would be around 6 or 7 year old as thin as a stick with a bad as big as a TATA SUMO on his shoulders putting out his thumb for lift. I stopped and he jumped on my scooter. He started giving me directions, "uncle left, uncle right, go straight, uncle my friend stop stop, hey come jump in." I was like "what??" Another kid with a TATA SUMO on his shoulders?? That kid stood in the empty place in front of the scooter and started chatting to the kid behind about homework. I get irritated if someone does something like this, but this time it was funny. :-) Talking about home work and then Left-Right. He he he. It was fun. The school came and both the kids shot out their hand, "Tanku Uncle." A smart hand shake and off they went. :-)

Sometimes kids do teach you few things. Huge workload doesnt matter to them, all that matters is freinds and having fun in school. I wish I was in school again. It would be great if we could also have fun in office with huge workload.

And all you kids I am not uncle. Understand??? Brats!!!

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