The perumjeerakam story, repeats!

“Ok, so you got all the items listed?”, looking at him who had just returned from the super market, she asked.

“Yes, everything was there!”, he replied and then went to the kitchen to have another cup of tea.

As he was sipping through the cold tea, his mother called him again.

“Oh mom! What now? Once again u forgot to add something in the list, rite? I just came from the shop and I am not going back there immediately. We will see in the evening. Why you always forget? U need jyothishbrahmi!”, the boy did not like the interruption in what he was doing.

“Ok, next time when u go to the shop, buy one for me. But before that u tell me what this is?”, holding a small plastic bag she asked him.

“Jeerakam! See, it’s written over here”, the confused boy snatched the bag from his mother and showed her the name tag.

“PerumJeerakam.”, corrected his mother.

“Yes, Perummm….Jeerakam. I didn’t see the other one. So?? It’s also jeerakam! And it’s big!!!”, he made his point.

She looked at him. Innocence was written all over his face. She could not control her laughter.

“Again he brought PerumJeerakam instead of Jeerakam??”, his sister too joined his mother.

“Yea, I did. From now on, u go to the super market to buy these stupid things. I quit!”

Ashamed of himself for repeating the same mistake again and again, he quipped at those laughing faces and darted out of the kitchen.

More laughs were heard from the kitchen.

Years passed away. The boy is now the father of a one year old.

“Ok, so you got all the items listed?”, looking at him who had just returned from Medical Store, she asked.

“Yes, everything was there!”, he replied and then went back to his laptop.

As he was busy browsing through the facebook pages, she called again.

“What is this?”

“Facebook, don’t you know??

“NOT FACEBOOK…., THIS!!”

The scream was so loud that he had no other way than to look up at her. She was carrying a packet of cerelac.

“Cerelac 4.., anything wrong with that?”, he was confused.

That’s it. She couldn’t bear more…. By magic, the packet suddenly grew wings and it flew out of the window.

As he was following the imaginary curve drawn by the packet finally ending at the window, he heard her voice again...


“Why u r like this Sreeram? I asked you to bring Nan 3 and u brought this??!! How many times u will repeat the same story??!!”, more screams and then silence…....

He returned his gaze to her angry face.


"U r more beautiful when u r angry", disaster management that was so premature as she started searching for more items to throw away.


"Ok,hold on, hold on... U really are!! But at least I did not bring PerumJeerakam this time, rite??”, he replied calmly to an angry wife and then walked back silently to the medical store.....


Signed : 
Sreeram R Warrier :-/