S – Story Time Trick
S – Story Time Trick
Sonam (innocent face, nagging voice): Papa… just one more story, na? Please?
Dad (rubbing his forehead like he’s in a serial drama): Beta, I’ve already told you three stories! If I tell you one more, I’ll have to cancel tomorrow’s office Zoom call due to “overstorying.”
Sonam (doing the classic folded-hand plead): Okay, just half a story! Like half a samosa. Still tasty!
Dad ( Making a filmi face): Hmmm… half a story? Chal, deal. But no tantrums when it stops midway, okay?
Sonam (crossing fingers under the blanket): I promise Papa!
Dad (clearing throat theatrically): It’s the Kahani of Jadugar Babulal and the Chappal Portal!
In the village of “Golgappapur,” people used to wear Bata shoes on their hands and bangles on their ankles. In Golgappapur lived a very odd yet oddly brilliant wizard named Babulal.
Now, Babulal wasn’t like any other tantrik baba. No, no. He could sneeze out dosas and burp out ladoos. His best friend was a flying auto-rickshaw named Gulgule. Do you know that he had a pet cloud named Badal Bhaiya who only rained Rasna?
One hot afternoon, he was making an effort to turn karela into kaju katli. …….
Dad (made a dramatic face): THE END for the day storytime.
Sonam: KYA?! That’s not the end! He didn’t even go inside the portal! What happened next? What about the kaju katli??
Dad : Arrey, beta, I said na—half a kahani. No climax, no conclusions, to be continued…….
Sonam: This is emotional manipulation!
Dad : Acha theek hai. Tomorrow you’ll get the other half. Now goodnight my darling!
Sonam: (Making a cute face) —– Promise na Papa… Tomorrow
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