Monday, 17 April 2017

Chapter 5 : Pappadam Kachi

Pappadam Kachi is a long stick made of steel to take pappad (thin crispy wafer served with Indian meals) from oil.
It was a Good Friday. Usually on good Friday we will be on fasting in the morning (except Amy) and we will have kanji and payar (green gram curry) for lunch( a simple food).
This good Friday I and Amy are at our rented home and my husband went to his home.
So I was busy making Kanji and payar for both of us. I thought I will make few pappad also. Since Amy like pappad very much.. (Me too… J).So I kept oil to heat. Took the Pappadam kachi (which I usually keep in out of reach of Amy) and few pappad and kept everything ready.
Mean time my little Angle appeared on kitchen and saw the Pappadam kachi. Within second she took the pappadam kachi and started playing with it. I asked her to return it and told her that she won’t be getting pappad if she didn’t return the pappadam kachi.
She is not listening to whatever I said and busy playing with it near washing machine. I was also busy making Kanji and payar that I didn’t notice what she is doing. After few minutes she came to me and told she had drop pappadam kachi inside washing machine.
I was shocked…What she is small and she can’t open the washing machine lid. Then how did she drop it inside Washing machine. Then I asked her how, she took me to the washing machine and showed me a small hole on the side of the washing machine (meant for holding the draining pipe) and told me that she dropped it through that..
OMG….she dropped the Pappadam kachi inside washing machine. I can take it only by unscrew and opening the washing machine from the back. I got angry like nothing and I started screaming at her and she started crying. I switched off the oil. Turned the washing machine a little bit to have a look on the back side. And I found that I need a star screw driver to open the back. L. And the realty is I don’t have any screw driver at all.
After sometime, once my BP came down, I somehow managed to make few pappad using scissors (don’t embrace, it’s true, you can fry pappad using scissors’ I just tried and succeeded. And this is what is proverb “Necessity is the mother of invention” says.. J)
 We both had kanji, payar and pappad.
By evening my husband came and I reported the incident to him. He had a look on the back side and told me that he will buy a star screw driver and open washing machine and take the pappadam kachi. Hmm.. Since I know my husband very well, I have to wait for 3 to 4 days for all theses to happen. That too, only if I keep on asking him…But since Washing machine is an unavoidable gadget and I am using it on a daily basis I can’t wait for 3 to 4 days.
So I tried, putting some clothes inside and tried to start washing machine and I end up in getting some sounds from inside the machine. So I just stopped the machine.
Again was thinking what shall be done.
And now I found myself sitting on the back side on washing machine, holding my scissors and trying to unscrew …This time also, my little scissor helped me. I opened the back side, took the pappadam kachi out. Closed the back again. And kept everything in place. I switched my machine on and it started functioning normally. I am relaxed.. J

I kept the Pappadam kachi back to its place.. On the top of my fridgeJ.

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