This incident happened during the ICC World Cup 2023. I had been wanting to share it since, but I got too distracted and it was super painful seeing India lose in the finals at home ground!
I didn’t have a single tear to shed, as I was too shocked to understand how a perfect team lost its most important game! Nerves can do that to the best of the teams or probably just a bad day.
Anyway…
As I was crying dramatically, (fake wiping my tears and all, to show how I was feeling), GBee asked me why I was sad. I told him our desi team lost to Australia in the finals. When will we ever get the chance to host the World Cup, play with the perfect team and win again? The simple thought caused me buckets and buckets of disappointment!
Crocodile tears, the father of all fake tears and fake crying!
As soon as GBee confirmed with me that I was indeed talking about the World Cup 2023, which the whole family had been watching with much fervour and enthusiasm, he had a simple solution!
New T.V. = New match result!
Thank you Sweety, for kindly reminding me how simple the brain of a 6 year old works. But no, the match result can’t be altered with a simple deed as buying a new t.v.! It can be only altered if we can successfully bring in the foreign Time Machine from Back to the Future or our own pukka local Time Machine from Adithya 369! Or better still, we can bring in Hermione to give a special lecture on the successful usage of Time Turners and complete the task at hand!
P.S:
- I had written this post way back in 2023, right after the World Cup Final, but I was as depressed as Rohit Sharma probably was, so I refrained from posting it!
- November, December and January brought in exams for GBee and we had a hectic time, getting on with the home fun’s, tests, reports and the likes. Gawd! He is a first grader, but he had exams in every month, from November to January. Then came the finals in March, so, ya, a season of exams came to an end at last.
- I shudder to think what will happen to me once GBee is in higher grade and KBee will also be joining school in a couple of years! I will probably make my very own version of Sleepless in Seattle, called Sleepless in Hyderabad! (Although Tom Hanks was not sleepless because his kid had exams every month!)
- I will get back to blogging in April, thanks to summer holidays. Till the next post, cheerio!
