Slippery moments my kid gave me!

by Lata
(Karnataka)

It was in the late-eighties. My elder son was only around three year old then. He was a very naughty child and would do very weird and out of the world pranks, in a very quiet sort of way and nobody even get an inkling of it.

I was working in one of the nationalized banks and would leave every morning by 9 O'clock. It was one of those Monday mornings. As always, I went to my dressing table, and started applying Johnson's baby lotion generously on my face and hands and surprisingly it felt very sticky, viscous and smelt funny too.

Horrified, I looked at the expiry date on the bottle and noticed that it was quite late. Then, suddenly I noticed that the small Castor oil bottle on the table was empty.

My kiddo had emptied the oil bottle into the lotion bottle! My costly lotion bottle went down the drain.

This was an eye opener for me. From that day, I took extra care not to keep any costly items on the table which would be easily accessible to my son. I did not want to go through any more slippery moments in my life!

Lata