Techie

“This is a Samsung Galaxy Note 3, okay? This is going to be the Ambassador Car of your first drive into technology.”
He just sat there munching peanuts. 
I sighed. “Chill, dad. It’s just a touchphone. I’m going to teach you how to use this. Okay?”
More pronounced munching.
An hour of desperate teaching later, finally satisfied that I did a good job of teaching him how to use a phone, I smiled.
“You understood everything I taught?”
He nodded.
“Do you have doubts?”
He shook his head.
“Do you have anything to say?”
At that he got up, went over to the TV stand, grabbed the remote, put on some hideous news channel that discussed a politician’s views on Feminism and why it should be “Menism” instead, sat back on the couch, raised the plate that held peanuts to my face and asked,
“Would you like some peanuts?”
I rolled my eyes.
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A week later, I tried again. This time, with the laptop.
“So, my father, THIS”, I said dramatically showing off the new laptop he got for my mother, “is a Laptop.”
“I’m not retarded. I brought it for your mother. I know what it is.”
So much for a dramatic start.
He just got up and switched the TV on. News Channel. Politician going bonkers over another politician’s personal affairs.
I took a deep breath to steady myself. “Daddy?” I called out smiling.
“I’m listening to you. Continue.”
And again after an hour of desperate teaching, finally satisfied that I did a good job of teaching him how to use a laptop, I prayed and managed to smile.
“You understood everything I taught?”
He nodded.
“Do you have doubts?”
He shook his head.
“Do you have anything to say?”
He had a grave expression on his face. With the seriousness of a military Colonel, my father asked,
“Did your mother throw out the peanuts I brought last week?”
That’s when I learnt that teaching kids was not an intelligent career option for me.
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A year later, when I came home for vacations, I found my father sitting on the couch in front of the TV, busily typing on his phone.
He called me over.
“Yeah, Dad?”
“Why haven’t you added me on Facebook?”
I stood still for a while.
When I came back to my senses, I went to the kitchen, grabbed a bunch of peanuts, chomped on them arrogantly, and asked him to repeat what he said.
And I just stood there munching peanuts the entire time.
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-The Violet Woman
Lilliput #4
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