apple again

Few days ago, I was a bit early to pick up the kids from school and managed to get a spot at the school car park. ( trust me, it feels like winning a lottery)
When the bell rang the kids came out like a giant wave of penguins, all looking similar in their uniform and hat and it was hard to find my children in the crowd. So I waited.
And then in the distance, I noticed Baby’s classmates and knew for sure she would be among them. And that is when I noticed this child wearing pants with the hem riding at least a feet from the shoes !
( In my mind I said, vellapokkam ano? ( is there a flood?) You need to be a mallu to understand the context) I also saw that the said child is wearing fluro green socks. So this is how it looked. Navy blue pants that are too short, fluro green socks and black shoes.
It didn’t take too long for the shock to settle in.. for you see, it was my youngest child  !!!.
And it was her to turn to sit in the front seat and that is when I noticed that she is wearing her uniform polo inside out.
“You are wearing your T-shirt inside out” I said
“Yeah, I noticed. But I couldn’t be bothered to change it. Mom you know about the intention and the action. ( ie she didn’t deliberately wear the T-shirt inside out) and there is no law saying that wearing a T-shirt inside out is an offence”
Before I could say anything further, my son reached my car. He was fuming ! He pointed to his sister and said ” I am not related to her, all my friends saw her wearing her T-shirt inside out”
And I knew if I said anything it would have made things worst.
But the truth is, I am known to wear my clothes inside out ( it does happen once in a while and unlike my child, I find it so humiliating and run to the nearest washroom to change it!) I also made my oldest sister’s life a living hell when she was studying in the same school as I. She survived only a year before my mother pulled her out and enrolled her in another school. ( In that one year, I humiliated her so many times, including walking in to her class, holding my undies and telling her ‘the elastic broke’. I was 5 and didn’t think it was a crime to go to her class, what else was I supposed to do?)

My child has enough pants. But she insists on wearing the old pants which are too short for her. In the morning she was wearing her jumper and that is why none of us saw her wearing her T-shirt inside out. .
And much as I would want to say, I can’t believe she did this, I also know that apple couldn’t have fallen too far.
The only consolation is that my son will be going to high school next year and won’t have to deal with his youngest sister for 2 years. By then hopefully she will change !  ( I did)

2 thoughts on “apple again

  1. momofAanda: She is.. but to spend a whole day at school wearing a T-shirt inside out, even after the teacher, teacher's aid,her brother and all her friends telling her that she is wearing her T-shirt inside out and it takes only 5 minutes to go to the washroom and change it is really worrying.

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