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My Dad’s Hero

Varun uncle became his friend and started meeting him
after school. So, Dad took him to play his pranks along
with him. He would disturb the driver in one bus every
weekend when they used to go from Kalyan to Thane.
They used to travel to enjoy themselves. The bus driver
and conductor knew him and Varun Uncle, and they
would shudder whenever my Dad boarded the bus. My
Dad would enjoy the attention he would get in the bus.
Everybody would keep telling him to stop creating
mischief. But the more they would tell him, the more he
would do so.”

“Then?” asked Mansa.

“Well, one day, my Dad carried a lizard in a glass jar in his
backpack. He asked Varun uncle to hold his backpack
while he went and said hello to the bus driver. Varun
uncle was shy and quiet, unlike my Dad. He used to fear
my Dad but listened to him and obeyed him as well. So,
he sat quietly in the seat just behind the bus driver while
my Dad went up to him.

“While going, he asked Varun uncle to hand him the glass
jar from the backpack as soon as he was near the driver.
Varun uncle opened the backpack, and without looking at
the jar, he gave it to my Dad. My Dad took the lizard out
of the jar and put it on the driver’s shoulder.”

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