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Discussion in 'Cheeniya's Senile Ramblings' started by Cheeniya, Feb 19, 2019.

  1. Cheeniya

    Cheeniya Super Moderator Staff Member IL Hall of Fame

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    We moved to our new house a little over a year back. It is an architect designed complex of 32 flats. My wife, daughter and the rest of the family consider it as some kind of the equivalent of Buckingham Palace. I mention ‘Palace’ specifically because there is a Buckingham in Chennai too but it is as stinky as the Augean Stable. So I want to rule out that possibility of being misuderstood which is why I emphasise on ‘Palace’. There is absolutely no doubt that the flat is swank and in the normal circumstances, I would have sung the ‘The House of Bamboo’ song which was quite popular in the ‘50s. But I have no reason to sing that song as yet. My clever daughter noticed the forlorn look on my face and took me to the foyer and asked me ‘Dad, you don’t look very happy. I should say that you look unhappier than ever before. Don’t you like the flat?’ ‘Of course I like it and it is a flawless construction’, I answered. ‘If you like the place, then why this long face?’, she persisted. The younger generation, I tell you! They want to probe into everything even if that does not concern them.

    I just smiled and it didn’t convince even me. So it was no wonder that my daughter could sense the artificiality of my smile. “It’s fine dad if you do not want to share with anyone your private sorrow. But do share it with me whenever you feel like it’, she said rather disappointed and went into the house. As is the wont in the Internet communities, we feel more comfortable to share with faceless friends all our private sorrows than with our close family members. So let me tell you the cause for my dismay. If you had been reading my Ramblings in the past, you would have come to know of my admiration for lizards. I am a keen lizard watcher. I have understood them so much that I could predict what they would do next. People think that lizards are unpredictable and keep you guessing all the time about their next move. If they fall on our body by accident, we run to the almanac to see what it means. If they make a noise, we make an identical noise to counter the effect of its noise.

    The flat that we have moved into had no lizards at all and that caused me all the agony. When I took my evening stroll around the building, I kept watching keenly for a lizard. This probably intrigued my neighbor and he asked me if I had lost anything. How could I tell him that I had lost the very foundation of all my happiness? ‘No, no’, I assured him. ‘I was just thinking of my old friends’, I told him cryptically but he did not catch it and moved on disinterestedly. I hate people who ask questions and move on without waiting for your answer. My anguish was growing by the day and my daughter was getting more and more curious.

    As I was resting my face on the window and watching aimlessly one day, I saw it. A lizard, I tell you. It may be about 2 years old which is equivalent of mid 30’s of human lifespan. As I stood transfixed by it, it started moving closer to me. I hailed my daughter so loudly that the entire household came running to my room. My daughter asked me with a lot of concern why I shouted. I was too emotional even to answer her clearly and simply pointed my finger at the lizard. ‘A lizard’, I added pointlessly. My daughter and wife exchanged glances that seemed to suggest that they thought that I was getting mentally unsound! ‘You have no idea how long I waited for him’, I told them and my daughter asked me, ‘How do you know it’s a male?’ I knew it was a casual off-the-cuff remark and I didn’t feel like answering her. They all left me to my lizard and I went on looking at it with ecstasy.

    I was sad that nobody in my house shared my enthusiasm. I was wondering how people who visited Crocodile Park regularly could be so indifferent to a lizard. They loved watching a crocodile being fed but if a lizard caught its prey, they said ‘Yucky'. Next morning, my daughter asked me at the breakfast, ‘You look unusually happy and cheerful, dad. Is that the lizard?’’ and winked at me. If I had been Robert Browning, I would have added a lizard too to the list that made the perfect world!
     
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  2. Amulet

    Amulet IL Hall of Fame

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    GEICO (government employees insurance company) in America has made a Gecko their Chief spokesman (yes, it has a male Brit voice) in all their television commercials.
    Here is one:
     
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    Dear Cheeniya Sir,

    You restored your happiness by seeing a Lizard! I know when you radiate love for a specific specie, they tend to come closer. Perhaps, this particular Lizard must have come with you to continue experiencing the love you have for the Lizards.

    It is a great sight to watch how a Lizard wait patiently unmoved in the same space having a closer look at the prey before they extend the tongue to catch the prey. I understand your long face for missing the company of Lizards. But making your family worry about that is something you need to reconsider. Please forgive your neighbor as he doesn't understand your love for the Lizards. He must have read your earlier snippets to understand your emotional attachment to the Lizards.

    Please enjoy this cartoon at home.

    Lizard cartoons - Yahoo Video Search Results
     
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    @Amulet
    Oh, I stand corrected. ☺
     
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    Dear CS,

    Quite unlike you, I have a complete revulsion to those horrible critters!!! Am sorry to hurt your feelings, CS, but I can't lie (even if I am not George Washington!) I think this revulsion is genetic, having been one of the few things I inherited from my mom (other than the godhadis!) The fact that I am writing this response is to be attributed to the fact that I did not see a lizard which decided (God knows why!) to run across my bed when I was lying on it. Mercifully my Lady Jeeves told me of it only after she had taken it off the bed and sent it back where it belonged - the green wilderness outside my balcony.
     
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    Dear Cheeniya Sir,

    This is for you
     
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    Take this hanky and wipe the coal off your face. You were looking only in the East for your lizard stories. You forgot old quote that East is East and West is West. There is still
    some coal in your face. Here take this second hanky. You should have consulted your granddaughter before exposing your collosal ignorance. Pathetic I tell you.
     
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    It's alright, CS. Am sure people in the West are as ignorant about lizard stories and lizard lovers in the East. So the two hemispheres are quits! It all comes a full circle. :roflmao:
     
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    Dear Cheeniya sir,
    I am with Satchi in not loving lizards(tried to put as nice words as possible, do not want to hurt the feelings of a lizard lover). I always used to wonder how can anyone observe a lizard catching it's prey! I can't glance even for a second!
    I heard people feel and miss the home they left and feel homesick for a while but never a lizard sick!!!! And also never knew that even in lizards there is a difference between east and west!!!!
    So, at last you found a lizard in your new swanky home also and hope you are happy.
    Syamala
     
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    Well.... the people are a diverse lot, aren't we ?
    Sir David Attenborough goes off to distant lands, lie down on his belly touching a hot rock, and enjoys observing colorful lizards, and their acrobatic fly-catching routine:

    Caution: scenes of women-lizards having headaches !

     
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