About shirking chores

One of our family friends had his nephew visiting his house last week. The nephew dude was a chap of about 12 years old and was kind of like me, in that he doesn’t do any chores in his house. Now, our family friend uncle had an ‘everyone-wash-their-own-plate’ policy in his house. So the family had their dinner and when the nephew dude was just about to get up, uncle asks him to wash his plate. He silently went to the kitchen, washed his plate sparkling clean, came back and sat next to uncle on the sofa. After a few seconds, he gently asks uncle,

“Uncle, where do I have to go to report about child labor?”

Warning: Kids, do not try this at home. You’d probably get a whip on your butt. ;)

P.S. I’ll be moving to Kochi to work on a research project at Cochin University, in about 2 weeks. So I’ll not be visiting this space that frequently thenceforth, and posts will mostly be sporadic. However, I’ll be home once every week, or at least every fortnight - Nah, not because I’ll be nostalgic or dying to see my family but due to the sole reason that I love my washing machine; know what I mean? Hehe, cheers!!