Forward March....

Now, adult/parental whining with respect to their children/younger charges often have very similar themes. One of them being where your folks tell you how much harder their lives were, and how we take for granted our cars and drivers when they had to cross rivers to get to school, only to be pulled out because there were so many other pressing responsibilities. Never mind the alternate times when they reminisce about how once they played on the streets well into the night, choc bars on the roof at 2 am, and how aunt will tell you your dad flunked his exams, and your mom was as much of a tomboy as you are, if not more. 


Kids from the late 80s and the 90s, including myself were polite, our folks were strict with us. On the other hand, our later born siblings, the end 90s and the 2000s batch, facilitated by the fact that their old man and woman had grown, well, older, turned out to be sassy, cocky twits with ready comebacks, and the guts (in lieu of a Ramzan inappropriate word here), to blurt those out. And ofcourse, more "guts" for rebellion too. 


For instance: 


Scenerio 1: Dad and then 13 year old brother, year 2002.


Dad : "Hum tou parh nahin sakkay, issliay ab main aap ko itni achi school bhaij raha hoon takay aap parhlou"
Bil : *respectful silence and nodding*
Dad: *stern tone* Now I want an A in Math next time, you're a memon's son for Gods sake. And no playing for a week.


Scenerio 2: Dad and now 11 year old Monkey, year 2011.


Dad : "Hum tou parh nahin sakkay, issliay ab main aap ko itni achi school bhaij raha hoon takay aap parhlou"
Monkey : Haan tou papa, kya huwa agar main fail hota hoon, apnay bachon ko tou main Harvard bhaijoon ga"
Dad: *amused laughter* My son is so haazir demaagh. 


The rest of us, *stunned*

The primate thats going places <3

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