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June 27 "Elie!, Elie!"'Elie! Elie!"
( means rat in Tamil)
WE just did the "Grihapravesam" pooja of our house that has been reaching completion for many months.
This brought back old unforgetable memories rushing back to my mind ...and I want to share that with all of you.
It's about six years back.Also the 'Grihaprvesam' of the present apartment we are living in.
Auspicious date and time was decided, invitations sent and all preperations were reaching a cresendo as the date was approaching.
On the day and time destined by Gods, stars and man- Ganesha pooja and a few other poojas were performed.
Ganesha is considered to be the 'vigna-vinashaka' ( destroyer of all hurdles).
Everything went of well....so said all the relatives and friends who came.
Few beautiful days were spent in the brand new house done up in the modern style...with leather sofas and a little terreace garden and what not.
Soon we realized that our family was not alone in the house. We had a tresspasser who was not sited by anyone but trail marks felt everywhere.
Looks like Ganesha was so happy with our offerings ( decided to change my caterer after that) that he decided to leave behind his 'vahana' to help us around in the new place.
My sons have the habbit of not closing their wardrobes properly, and also leaving their book shelves partly open.
One day when my son was trying to retrieve a shirt he had not worn for a long time he got a helping hand from within.One loud yelp, from him,'Elie!, Elie!' brought us all into that room
My first reaction, " Should teach you boys a lesson for keeping your room messy."
Later I was at the recieving end of the comment when the little rat jumped out of my store room .
My husband had a brief encounter with the little devil in the bathroom.
So we decided to huddle together and come up with a plan
PLAN I
THe good old way of trapping it using a rat trap.
Every evening I would keep things like onions, coconut pieces ,cheese and even onion masala vadas from road side to bait the rat.
My efforts didn't pay. The rat was too smart. It would smoothly go in and out of the trap eating all the
goodies and not getting trapped.- maybe James bond could take a few lessons from Mr.Rat?
I had to give up this plan when my sons started eyeing rat's dinner enviously.
PLAN II
It is the HI-tech age. So we were not going to be left behind
My shopping list for my husband when he travelled abroad would invariably include ultra sonic rat repellents.
If it worked on American rats it should definitely work on desi ones too, right?
Wrong! .....Here's a piece of news for all of you Our rats are smarter than their American counter parts.
Plan III
Street smart idea for street smart rats!
We would now keep a small bucket handy and bang it on the rat as soon as it was spotted.After a lot of such frenzied banging our neighbours decided to put their foot down.Also guests were greeted by a straybucket or two in the otherwise well done apartment and would raise a questioning eye-brow.
Plan IV
Get Philosophical
Accept the little, obnoxious rat as part of your family.
So now everytime a rat jumps out of my son's wardrobe or leaves doppings on their favourite shirt they d o not shout out 'Elie!, Elie!' anymore. They do not get paranoid about a little rat dropping and throw all the well ironed clothes into the washing machine anymore. They just give the shirt a brisk whisk and wear them
And evertime the ratpasses by while we are watching our favourite T.V program we are unfazed. Wejust lift our feet and allow Elie a free and un-hindered passage.
I know all good things have to come to an end.But is there an end to this bad rat, we wonder?
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