2 months at my Nana’s place was the longest I spent away
from family. During these times, I bonded well with my Nana and I know he has
deep regards for me. I feel it as an achievement. I feel blessed.
I never knew after 2 catastrophic and epic glass tragedies
there was one more waiting to be unleashed. The day when it happened I realized
that God has been always very impartial towards me
My Nana, had this huge black glass-top table where we used
to eat.
The table was special to my Nana as I know it was imported.
It had a black glass panel placed on a frame of stainless steel. The glass was
ribbed on the flipside. Though not toughnened, it must be approximately 10mm in
thickness. The table was approximately 10 year old by then and it stood strong.
I remember dining a thousand times on that table and as I described it earlier
everyone in the family knew every antique that he possessed.
While waiting at the table for my Nana and Nani I noticed an
atomic crack on one ends of the table.
The crack intimidated me to apply some physics to real life.
To test if I was right on my calculation I tapped on the right part of the
table just to see if the crack widens up. As I said just to see.
Epic. It was epic this time. A huge block of glass dropped
out of the entire table on the floor and shattered on the floor.
Nana came rushing from the kitchen and I was standing there
with glass all over the place and feeling like a criminal caught red-handed.
Nana, gave me a ‘somebody’s gonna get a hurt real bad’ look. Only thing that ran through my mind was if
this somehow magically could stick together OR when would mom come and explain
him what happened, because I was not sure on how I could explain him or whether
he would agree to what I say.
Still I gathered all the courage to tell him the incident
and once again he accepted the story without telling a word.
We cleaned up the place and had lunch in the remainder of
the once so famous table.
I remember him using the broken glass table for atleast 5 –
6 years more. I apologized for what I did and Im thankful that he never
mentioned the event ever to anyone.
He is the greatest folk I have ever come across. Thank you
Nanaji.
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