some things "cooking"

Quoting Atuls mom , while she was staying with us for a month or so

"Last time Atul came to India, I sent with him all spare parts for the cooker- washer, weight, safety valve etc etc. After coming here I realise that the cooker itself is not there !!"

evidently our man has burned it and thrown it away.. and the "spare parts" are sitting nicely in his bag, unopened and untouched

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Atuls Father told us all the goofs that happened on the road trip they undertook.. we laughed and laughed for almost 1 hr.. its too difficult to write about those here... instead, here are two jokes that his Father told us that happened in his younger days

1) After graduation, Atuls Father had all his friends over at his place once.. they decided to take a group picture... and gave the camera to the only other person who was home at that time- his grandma.. just to be sure, (since it was the "old type" wash camera.. not digi) , they took two snaps...

Alas, after devloping, the two photos came- one had the ceiling fan it , and the other had the carpet :-)

2) This one's is slightly improvised: Talking about forgetting car keys... apparenty once he went with his friends in a car to Marina beach.. and they started playing "hiding things" .... one set of people hide various things and another set finds them out ... they played, the second team found some of the things that were hidden... they left the unfound stuff as it is and kept walking down the beach ...... while it was time to go back, they realised the following things

a) the fellow who was driving was in the "hiding" team

b) worse, the fellow chose to hide the car key

c) worst, that item was not one amongst those that the "finding" team unearthed !!