Violet poppins.....

Red, blue, purple, green and violet, violet, violet...….the colours have amused me a lot...

Was simply walking through that road which I have walked a thousand times, small dhabeela type street shops reminded me of the galis in delhi but the tarpaulins were replaced with coconut fronds….thought about it for a minute..Our ancestors would have been some cool pan chewing eco friendly dudes to use coconut fronds as a building material, felt proud for a second, that dude was a genius to come up with such an idea…but the amazing fact is people still relate to it; atleast I was…..

So as I passed by I thought of looking at the jars just out of curiosity…and suddenly I felt a nostalgia pass by, on that clutter of peanut candies, cracking Murukku and delicious matrix achappams there where slapdashish POPPINS inside a glass bottle..A thousand vague memoirs ran in my mind and I ran, jumped, screamed, howled and laughed crazily on my long lost past, I thought I was wearing that old trousers from school days, aaaaaah the world was so airy then, felt a little uncomfortable with my jeans….

I wanted it and I wanted the violet one more dearly, but what would it cost? what would a POPPINS cost?? what would a dream cost….I could have dreamt about travelling in a limo , dreamt about buying the island America, I could have even dreamt about setting off to moon or world peace but right at that moment I was dreaming POPPINS…..sweet crystals that once mesmerized me…

I asked the old dude sitting on the shop for a POPPINS; the guy was just baffled to see me asking that; felt awkward for a moment, can’t blame him, when on your senses will you expect a tall huge guy with a stoned look come and ask for POPPINS…It took a while for the guy to close his mouth; smiling inside and showing all the seriousness of his age he asked “how many?” that was a question I wasn’t expecting, I was just thinking about buying one ..but this question of how many opened up a thousand possibilities…will one be enough or should I buy more? Should I be buying enough for a week? How many violet ones will I get if I buy for 20? How much does a POPPINS cost? how many will be in one POPPINS? The decision was hard to take and the smile inside the dude was coming on his face, even I laughed vaguely, by this time he would have judged me & tailored a story about me. But it was poppins and his laugh was a sweet one. I pictured a better story than he has for me…the vague smile from my side again….and with all the courage I asked for one POPPINS. Thy shouldn’t be greedy, was this on the ten commandments? Tried remembering the scene from the movie…no idea…

The dude said “two bucks” and this time I was baffled, just two bucks? I asked..Okay then give me poppins for ten, I was asking with such a pride that the guy almost broke into laughter but he controlled; I was ashamed, why is this guy laughing haven’t he seen huge men asking poppins? Silly guy….he should get more life experiences and learn not to laugh on people who want poppins in their lives… And at last five packets of poppins on my hand, I was feeling greedy…popping one poppins was just the thing that I could think of, but not here, not in front of this evil monster who wants to see me pop one poppins so that he can laugh later, I knew his evil plan from the very beginning and like Sherlock Holmes with the satisfaction of understanding this guys evil plan I walked in slow motion from that shop; well at least it was like that in my mind. The temptation was too much, and didn’t thought about it much…Opened the newly added plastic cover, the old was hiding inside it, the old paper packed poppins…opened the paper pack but this time with more enthusiasm…the first beauty I saw was the violet one, my precioussss………………..my dream… and that brief moment I was happy…I was travelling in a limo, I just bought the Island America, I went to the moon and came back and there was world peace…and all this because of a poppins..a small violet poppins….