Thursday, May 14, 2009

the guy next door

I used to spend my free time with my kid brothers in my childhood days. They were like 2 lil puppet and I was the puppet master. My instructions were their command. Wow!! Those were the days.
It was the year 97, my summer vacation, also the mangoes season. A neighbour had come home with his little boy namy, who apparently was also studying in my batch ( but in a different school). That noon I couldn't find my kid brothers around, so I went out looking for them. After a while I realized that they were sitting on the water-outlet platform outside my room. This was our common hideout place. The advantage of that place was that, only 3 people could climb to that place, me and my 2 kid brothers. We used to climb a water pipe to reach that place.

So when I climbed up that pipe, to my surprise i found namy there with my kid bros. Wow!! he could climb that pipe too. I joined them. We ate raw mangoes with salt any chilly powder. After a while we came down, played for a while, and then he went home.

But he came back the next day, and the day after that, and every evening .

We were a group of 4. we had so much fun together. Every evening we went out looking for trouble and called it adventure. Like
The monkey adventure (oh that was when a monkey bit meehan's head)
the graveyard adventure
the haunted lake
the snake hunt
the lost world
the banyan tree adventure (that day we also sang 'hum saat cat hai')
the beedi experience (when we tried beedi for the first n last time)
the falling garage roof
driving tempo and bike
the hanging on rod, climbing the house roof (which was very very very dangerous and foolish)

many many many many more..... the list is never ending..... I miss those days as much as I miss my friend. the story changed after 2002 as I joined a hostel and my life was totally different. Though i met him when I came home on vacation, but it was not the same. I can never forget the golden age me and my kid bros spent with him. My childhood wouldn't have been so much fun if it weren't for namy. He was a nice person and also a wonderful friend.

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