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Doordarshan वर फार पूर्वी कुश्ठरोग्यांना आपले म्हणून घेण्यासाठी एक जाहिरात यायची. आज माझया समोर असेच काही शुल्ल्लक - शुल्ल्लक प्रॉब्लम्स येऊन उपटले. आणि वरुन सगळ्यांच्या कपाळावर एकच फीत >> "आम्हाला आपले म्हणा!" तोडगा सगळ्यांना आहे, पण एका वेळी एक सॉल्व केला तर कसे काम फ्फ्टे होऊन जाईल! उगाच उद्याच्या दिवशी मकडऊडया मारत सगळा गुंता सोडवावा लागेल.

I met this boy a couple of months back. Sunday evenings at M.G Road, Pune are colorful (and yummy too). So here we ( me and mihir) were waiting for a friend to arrive. I heard a kid squeak.
"Boot polish?"
Fortunately I was wearing my floaters! I had a reason to escape his persuasion.

Me: (pointing my floaters) Iss mein kya polish karo-ge?
Boy: Brush se saaf kar deta hoon.
Me: Zarurat nahi hain.
Boy: Ek baat bolu? Bura toh nahi manoge?
Me: Bolo (at the max I expected the kid to abuse and run off)
Boy: Bahot bhook lagi hain, ek 5 rupaye ki bhel khila do.

This was totally unexpected shot for me.

I took him to a nearby roti-sabzi center, bought him 2 rotis and a sabzi.

In the meantime I was curious about this kid. He told me, his name was Vishal Shastri. His native was some small village in Rajasthan. Now that Vishal had lost his father, he was helping his mother to support his family by this part time job. He studied in a municipal school in Hadapsar. His mother worked as a maid. He had the knack of education and wanted to own a big store. By then the parcel for roti-sabzi had arrived. We left the place.

Most of the time, Vishal was telling me about his ambitions, his aims and the problems they face in the slums. Just as I was leaving, once again he squeaked, "Bhaiyya, ek baat bolu? bura nahi manoge?"

Me: Bolo bhai.
Vishal: Ghar mein Rashaan (Ration) khatham ho gaya hain........

I just convinced him, that this help was not possible.





A few days back, we were at Burger king for a quick bite. While parking our bikes a kid approached Yash. In the mean time I reached there. "Bhaiyya aap toh polish karva lo."
As usual I was in my floaters. I refused.

"Ek baat puchu, bura nahi manoge?"

Hey hey hey.........I've heard this before!
I just turned back. Now the kid must be thinking, for sure he's packing things for himself (or whomsoever)

Me: Rajasthan ke ho kya?
Kid: haan.
Me: Hadapsar mein rehte ho?
Kid: haa.

Oh so the Vishal Shastri answers were all mugged up! It was just a new way of winning sympathy and begging in a better way.

Just turned off that kid, without giving him a single rupee. Walked off with a sour taste of being cheated by a kid.

Happened to pass by this site:

http://www.fmylife.com/

Lol, just felt like sharing this peice of laughter.