Pom Pom

I love coin purses. They are the ones that everyone needs more than the credit cards or cash. I once gifted my grandma a very pretty Oriflame coin purse. You know grandmas. No matter how many expensive coin purses you give them, they have to keep it in their safe deposit. That’s inside their blouse. My grand ma is no different.

My 5 year old nephew saw granny keeping purse there and taking it often. He started mimicking it. Of course the supportive organ is missing in the child & it kept falling off. He was in tears. So me & my ender sister explained him the problem, “what do I not have that granny has”, he asked. Not knowing what to say, I decided to give a silly word to it, “Pom Pom”. He seems to have understood & that was forgotten.

Few days from then we were crossing a main road & all of a sudden the same nephew started shouting “chikamma chikkamma yardo Pom Pom bidhogidhe ante”,(someone’s Pom Pom has fallen off). I was shocked. WTF how can that fall? What has the child seen?

I swear I went there with a hope. Not sure what kind of. The kiddo was pointing towards the auto horn. The green rubber horns that these old autos had; once cut had to be discarded off.