Belated confession

I need to make this confession to my dad sometime. But I've never had the guts to do it so far!

This is related to something I did more than 20 years ago. I was 1st Standard studying in the KV JIPMER campus in Pondicherry. I used to get dropped by my dad to school on his Baja Chetak. My school fees was 15 rupees a term ( 3months)!

There was this Aaya kadai right outside the school premises. This old woman who would sell things like toffees, kamarkats ( i guess people outside Tamil Nadu may not know what it is!) etc. This place used to be hang out for the largely innocent crowd of our days. Ha, don't we all feel that way? No, but seing the kids of today, I'm sure we were pretty naive and innocent.

One such day, we were supposed to pay up the fees for the term. Appa'd given me 15 bucks for the same purpose. Instead, i took the entire class out on a treat of kamarkuts. And I told Appa that I lost the money while he was riding me to school. I told him that the money flew out of my pocket on the raod ;).

There were a lot of discussions at that time. I remember that it was the biggest ever controversy I was involved in for a long time :). Life has moved on since then, but I never had the guts to tell Appa the truth about those 15 rupees! Someday I shall gather the courage and do it. But, not quite yet !