down the memory lane ..

... on saturday i spent a good 4 hours chatting with my dad ...he ended up doing no work at office .. and i ended up having a longer conversation with my dad .. than i ever get to do on the phone .. or when we are face to face .. not that we dont have any thing to talk about ... its just that both of us are not the talking kinds .. but yes .. we can let go freely when it comes to writing ... emails or long letters ... hmm .. somebody might tell me I'm repeating myself here .. ok ... I,ll get down to the brass tacks .. that is the motivation of this post ... as me and my dad were chatting .. we went down the memory lane .. of some unforgettable good times we had when the whole family was together ... me my mom , dad and elder sister ... we often went on road trips ... and sometimes those road trips would be by bus ... or car ... unfortunately .. never got to do it on a bullock cart .. would have loved it . :) i always felt the bus trips to be more entertaining .. though a little tiring as compared to the comfort of one's own car ... but entertaining .. because we got to meet a lot more people .. and also a lot more scenarios .. for playing one of our favourite games on long journeys ... "I Spy " ... on one such trip the three of us .. me , sis .. and my dad .. were running out of Ispy candidates ... especially me with the unimaginative mind of a 7 year old ... :)

we finally decided to include two lettered / three lettered words .. and no sooner was it suggested, it turned out to be my turn ... I thought long and hard .... and i came up with "I spy something with LTB " .... dad and sis both did their best to guess it ... but they gave up eventually ... " So what is it ... ??? " was the exasperated question ... and "Long tooth Bapi " .. was my cool unfazed answer .. :) I was almost beaten up ... :)

indian people .. would get the humor immediately .. but i dont mind doing a little bit of explaining to the other lot ... :) My dad has rather endearing two fromt rabbit teeth ... and bapi is my native language term for "dad" ....

needless to say ... it's one memory .. which always gets us smiling ... so here am I writing ... more such memories for later ...