Sometimes its quite funny how children display certain characteristics that they may have picked up from you, even though you never specifically taught them that.
Last weekend, I decided to buy a gift for my wife for our upcoming anniversary. She always complains that I never buy her a gift (which is not entirely true), but I anyways thought I would surprise her by behaving differently for a change.
Considering I am completely useless when it comes to buying things like jewellary, I decided to take Keshav along with me. He would be able to give me his 8-year old perspective and weigh in with his better understanding of what his mother may or may not like.
Since I wanted to reduce the variables, we went straight to the Tanishq across our house. At least I would avoid quality concerns I thought.
We both painstakingly went through a variety of items. At each stage I kept asking him his views to reassure myself. To be fair to him, he had very specific comments on each item. Something was too dull, or the shape wasnt good enough and so on.
We finally narrowed down on two similar looking items. He was categorical that both were exactly same, while I was trying to "spot the difference".
After I did a few minutes of brain damage, he realised I wasn't being able to make a decision. He quietly whispered in my ear - "Papa, both are fine. Just decide on price."
I was thinking that my wife would want something more expensive and fancy. So I asked -"Price? What do you mean price?"
With an incredulous look on his face he said - "Just take the cheaper one!"
As much as I wanted to burst out laughing, I couldn't be more proud of my Marwari son :)
Last weekend, I decided to buy a gift for my wife for our upcoming anniversary. She always complains that I never buy her a gift (which is not entirely true), but I anyways thought I would surprise her by behaving differently for a change.
Considering I am completely useless when it comes to buying things like jewellary, I decided to take Keshav along with me. He would be able to give me his 8-year old perspective and weigh in with his better understanding of what his mother may or may not like.
Since I wanted to reduce the variables, we went straight to the Tanishq across our house. At least I would avoid quality concerns I thought.
We both painstakingly went through a variety of items. At each stage I kept asking him his views to reassure myself. To be fair to him, he had very specific comments on each item. Something was too dull, or the shape wasnt good enough and so on.
We finally narrowed down on two similar looking items. He was categorical that both were exactly same, while I was trying to "spot the difference".
After I did a few minutes of brain damage, he realised I wasn't being able to make a decision. He quietly whispered in my ear - "Papa, both are fine. Just decide on price."
I was thinking that my wife would want something more expensive and fancy. So I asked -"Price? What do you mean price?"
With an incredulous look on his face he said - "Just take the cheaper one!"
As much as I wanted to burst out laughing, I couldn't be more proud of my Marwari son :)
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Awesome!
Awesome!
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