Maxwar

And the burning bin………

I was in 2^nd standard and it was the birthday of my mom.  

Just a few days back , while having  the customary recess time chat with my new friend  I realized that now I am ‘big girl’ and responsible enough  to offer  my mother with a ‘morning tea’ as my friend herself claimed to do the same.  However, the perfect filmy scene that I visualized : of me surprising my mother with a cup of  tea and see her gladly smiling  while she wakes up from her bed, was almost impossible.  Firstly , because  it was too early for me to wake up before she does  and secondly  her undeclared vow of eating /drinking  anything only after offering  her daily prayers.

So , the smart girl in me chose this day to be the most apt for unveiling the surprise.

The Kitchen was all set — I was  ready : after recollecting the sequence in which tea powder, sugar, milk was to be added to the boiling water — waiting impatiently till mother  leaves to take  her bath.

Finally, the moment arrived and I plunged on my venture.

Water boiled – 2teaspoon powder- 4 spoon sugar – and milk…………all went well with my experience of making the 1^st cup of tea…….. TILL HERE.

“Hurry spoils the curry”  goes the idiom…. In my case, though it didn’t spoil my  TEA but definitely created a mess out of my surprise plan. I took a cloth and carefully tried to pour it through the sieve and was shocked to notice that in this process the cloth  had caught flame. 

Though my teachers never realized this but I was a sincere student and brought well into my practice the good manners they taught  us. However , it was this obedient nature of mine which prompted me to throw away the waste  cloth (burning)  into  dust bin (plastic)  and thus  accidently discovered that plastic was an inflammable material much before I learned this in school.

Coming back to my  plan, indeed my mom was surprised rather shocked , to be precise, but the contributing factor to this reaction of hers  was not the cup of tea,  but the DUST BIN ….on fire….!!