Avneet Sethi

With the boys in US and my mom in London, managing office and home has been quite an interesting experience.

Although I have been on my own before, this experience has by far been the most amusing.

For example, the day Sarthak & Pancham left, his car’s oil chamber broke. I was still in the process of talking to insurance people, his auto service shop etc, when Pancham’s car decided on give up in the middle of the road.

As if this wasn’t enough, the fridge at home stopped working.

After a few days, I realized I had literally asked for this. I mean, suddenly from no car I had 3 cars to choose from and for a whole week I was wondering how I will take care of all the cars, where will I park them blah blah… and well, I never had the problem of parking!

And when Mom had left, I was complaining about how much food there was in the fridge and that it will get spoiled – I was so sure it will get spoiled… and most of it did. :S

Things settled down and I went about taking care of the long list of chores by mom left for me. One day I started thinking how I wish I had a dog… would that be too much to take care of? Probably yes. What animal is not very difficult to have as a pet… I don’t really want a pet, who’ll take care of it??

I have never before looked up at the sky and said “Are you kidding me?” before – but a week ago, that is exactly what I did when I saw 3 little kittens in my backyard.

I’ve been quite careful since then about what I wish for. Not that I wasn’t earlier.. but so many “in my face” situations have happened that I’m convinced beyond doubt that I better be careful!

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