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Friday, 28 March 2014

Tempted

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I always looked forward to visits to my Granny's place during my School's Summer-holidays. It was real fun as all my cousins also came and we had a gala time.
Granny's favorite words were - Eat & Sleep!
Granny was a great cook and ensured that we all ate yummy food.
She also wanted us to sleep in the afternoon so that she, my grandfather and the rest of the elders could enjoy their afternoon siesta.

But, we never slept and indulged in all sorts of fun activities. When our excitement levels made our voices loud, Granny would warn us to keep the volume down!

Granny made excellent pickles. She would add spices to the cut raw mangoes and put them out in the sun to dry. 

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Seeing the open treasure in front, I was tempted to sample the half-made pickles.
Ditto was the case with all my cousins!

As we all collectively yielded to our temptation, one afternoon, our army finished off the entire collection that Granny had left out in the sun to dry!

You should have seen her face when she woke up from her afternoon nap and let out a cry of shock & surprise!

"You kids have just finished off so many jars of future-pickles! You will have stomach-upsets..."

Seeing Granny's concern that we might have upset-tummies, I was tempted to inform her that we had even finished her entire bottle of Chooran!

Time for more shock & surprise!

It seems kids were permitted only one Chooran ball per day & we had gobbled up innumerable ones without counting!

Learnt a lesson for life- Take care of temptation!


This post is a part of Write Over the Weekend, an initiative for Indian Bloggers by BlogAdda.

Prompt- This time we’re aiming at making it more creative! Your post must contain, ‘ I was tempted’.

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47 comments:

  1. Anmol Rawat28 March 2014 at 15:38

    Lol I never did that. Not much fond of pickles :D

    Nice tale for the prompt :)

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    1. Anita Sabat28 March 2014 at 16:29

      I looooove pickles. This is a true story :)
      Thanks for the appreciation, Anmol.

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    2. Anmol Rawat1 April 2014 at 22:20

      Yup I could guess it's your story. Girls are usually fond of pickles right ;)

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    3. Anmol Rawat1 April 2014 at 22:21

      BTW congrats you topped the list this time :D

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    4. Anita Sabat3 April 2014 at 18:31

      Yay! Thanks a lot Anmol :)
      Yes it is my story :)

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  2. Soumya28 March 2014 at 16:32

    Hahaha reminds me of me.

    I love pickles and anything spicy and tangy :)

    Damn, I'm hungry now :D

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    1. Anita Sabat28 March 2014 at 16:36

      Haha Soumya :) We share common interests!
      Even I am hungry now though I also had pickles for lunch :)

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  3. Alok Vats28 March 2014 at 17:18

    Aww, great :)

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  4. Beloo Mehra28 March 2014 at 17:34

    A tangy, spicy post it is, Anita! Always fun to walk the memory lanes of carefree childhood :)

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    1. Anita Sabat28 March 2014 at 18:36

      Thanks Beloo!
      I love your choice of words- Tangy & Spicy - that's what pickles are about.
      But, yet to earn my Tangy/Spicy badges from BlogAdda :) Trying :)

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  5. RATNA28 March 2014 at 17:51

    I loved it! I know its true as i have also experienced the summer afternoons where grandparents want the children to sleep, but children don't care about the temperature and want to explore the world outside home! And doing something forbidden in your grandparents home is always an enjoyable experience.

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    1. Anita Sabat28 March 2014 at 18:37

      Yes, very true, Ratna! We share similar experiences :)
      Kids love grandparents homes :)

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  6. The Mukhtiars28 March 2014 at 17:52

    loved it..........

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  7. Nabanita28 March 2014 at 18:19

    haha...reminds me of the tamarind pickle my grandmother used to make :D

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  8. Midnight scribbles28 March 2014 at 18:56

    Ooh such a tempting prompt! Nicely done Anita

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    1. Anita Sabat29 March 2014 at 14:14

      Courtesy BlogAdda! Join in! Thanks a lot:)

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  9. Ananya28 March 2014 at 23:38

    I am tempted looking at your pickle picture.

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  10. Lancelot Quadras29 March 2014 at 09:25

    Your temptation sure gave your granny a huge shock...!! :P

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  11. Ankur Anand29 March 2014 at 11:55

    hahaha.. a pickling tempted post :)

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    1. Anita Sabat29 March 2014 at 14:16

      Thanks, Ankur!
      Wanna indulge in the same fun activities again! Missing them :)

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  12. Anonymous29 March 2014 at 12:43

    Yum yum yummy post..!!! Woo....ww; Im craving for my Mom's Mango Pickle. :)
    Beautifully written :)

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  13. Indrani29 March 2014 at 13:40

    Fun indeed. :)
    I remember having stolen some fro neighbor's.;)

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    1. Anita Sabat29 March 2014 at 14:17

      Hehe! Indrani, we all have such fun tales :)

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  14. Jayanta29 March 2014 at 15:46

    A nice read, Anita. Good one. Can feel the pulse though I missed all these kind of activities because of my hostel life during school :-(

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    1. Anita Sabat29 March 2014 at 16:03

      Thanks Jayanta. Okay. I am sure you have many memories too.
      We indulged in such fun during our Summer holidays :)

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  15. Tomichan Matheikal29 March 2014 at 16:09

    Children can tolerate a lot, right?

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  16. Anonymous29 March 2014 at 17:27

    Good Present and written.

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  17. Shrinidhi Hande29 March 2014 at 23:05

    No meal is complete without pickles!

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  18. Proactive Indian30 March 2014 at 10:06

    Beautiful post about two associated activities (freaking out on raw mango pieces being sun-dried and then freaking out on choorans, etc.) that many have indulged in as children.

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    1. Anita Sabat30 March 2014 at 17:37

      Thanks for the appreciation. Yes indeed! Kids have common interests :)

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  19. Unknown30 March 2014 at 11:41

    This year here in my hometown we have a good mango season and my mom has made all types of mango pickles. I will wait for weekends so that I can come home and taste all these mango pickles. My mother pickles has saved me when I was working outside. Rice+curd+pickle made my lunch... :)

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    1. Anita Sabat30 March 2014 at 17:38

      True Krishna. That's my favorite meal too. I love Mango Pickles too :)

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  20. Cifar30 March 2014 at 12:56

    thinking of raw mangoes is mouth watering nice take on the prompt

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    1. Anita Sabat30 March 2014 at 17:40

      Thanks Cifar! True, really mouth-watering :)

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  21. C Suresh30 March 2014 at 18:08

    Brings back memories of my long last childhood

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    1. Anita Sabat3 April 2014 at 18:32

      Thanks Sureshji! Happy you went on a walk down the memory-lane :)

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  22. BloggerWlogger30 March 2014 at 18:14

    Quite a different story! Pickles, my all time favorite! :)

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