The new superhero in town

The new superhero in town!

The wife and the brat arrived after a couple of day to add to the natural wonders of South Africa and the veldt resounded to the sounds of the new wildlife.

'SANJU! eat this!'

'NO!I hate you! I hate food! I hate eating!  I hate drinking! I dont want to become fat like you!'

'SANJU! take a bath!'

'NO!I hate taking baths! Is there a tub bath? Is it the most inconvenient time I can think of for taking a bath? Have you run out of clean clothes for me to wear, so that I can insist on taking a bath and changing clothes? If not, then I dont want to take a bath.'

'SANJU! lets go to see this beautiful place!'

'NO! I HATE seeing beautiful places! I hate going out! I REFUSE TO LEAVE THIS HOTEL! I WANT TO STAY HERE ALL DAY LONG!'

'SANJU! get your nose out of that tab and see this beautiful penguin - view - ostrich - '

'NO. I HATE SEEING THE REAL WORLD! I have already seen this beforeon the TV / on the internet / on my tab / on those silly TV shows you both keep seeing all the time. '

'SANJU! FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! PUT THAT TAB DOWN!'

'MOOOOOOOOOM! TECHNOLOGY IS MY LIFE! I love only technology things!'

She-who-must-be-obeyed wasnt being obeyed, and maternal instincts prevented her from tearing her first born into tiny fragments and dancing on them like a little Nataraj, so she turned on me.

'THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!' she screamed at me, turning big and green. The INCREDIBLE HULK was on the loose. 'PUNY HUMAN!'

I shied like a startled fawn and jumped 10 feet away in fright!

'What! why? when? what did I do?'

'You set a bad example to her by being constantly on the phone or on the PC or on the tab or some other pestilential piece of technology. Be like a good madrasi husband and father - your only possession should be a lungi and a shirt. And that too you should wear alternatatingly. Either lungi or shirt. thats it.'

'But...but...but...'

'get that little tyke to eat properly or HULK SMASH!'

I tried to play the stern parent and turned on the little one.

'What nonsense behaviour is this?' I thundered, wagging my finger at her. 'Is this the way to behave? Eat some food at once, I say!'

There was a sudden flash of green as if some cosmic rays had suddenly hit us, and a crack of supersonic sound and the smell of ozone in the air. We covered our eyes at the flash, and suddenly had to cover our ears as there was a sonic attack in the air.

'NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!'

We looked at the scene dumbfounded - there was a new super hero in town! The daughter of Hulk was born anew.

'I HATE YOU ALL. LEAVE ME ALONE. LEAVE ME ALONE.'

She was big and green and sat in a corner.

she was .... THE INCREDIBLE SULK!