To
Daddy
From
Jr.
Sub : Happy daddy’s day.
Dear Daddy,
Have a wonderful Father’s day. I know you were invited to my daycare for Fathers day function. That too on Friday evening at 4:00. I know you will have to miss the weekend last minute planning meetings and come, which also means your phone will ring friday night and over the weekend and mommy will do “Pilliar eyes” at you all weekend. Thanks for coming!
This year I am surprising you, again! I know how you are really happy with whatever I give you on father’s day and act surprised and give me a big hug and a kiss. I have given you trinkets made from paper bits, pieces of cloth left over in the tailors shop, ice cream sticks, old pepsi bottle lids, and things that look like they were picked from the street by my teachers who are hell bent on teaching me valuable subjects like economics at this young age. I also know that you really liked the ice cream stick “I love you daddy” tag I gave you two years ago and display it on the rearview mirror, but the rest of my gifts are nowhere to be found!
This year I am giving you the “#1 Dad” medal. I know you like this one too. You were wearing it even after you came home! But as an additional surprise, here is what I have done with my teachers. We have a brand new mousepad for you with my portrait on it!! Now, now. Stop crying. I don’t know if you are really touched by my going the extra mile, or if you are shedding tears for the fact that this daycare actually shelled out money for a gift! Either way, I am happy for you. Now you can finally show your co-workers that you got a commercialized product for a Father’s day gift that stands up to those coffee mugs, photo frames, etc. that you will see tomorrow. I know daddy. I know. We live in America.
I give you my usual love and you are still the best!
Love
Jr.
ps. I have another surprise for you. I have taught the little one to say “de da, ove you”. I was actually going for “Daddy, I love you”, but it is a question of time before she gets the “I” and the “L”.
pps. Mommy thinks you are expecting too much. You can’t seriously expect to start “onnu vitta mama’s rendu vitta marumaan day” just based on the gift potential.
From
Daddy
To
Jr.
Sub : Thank you
Dear Jr.,
I actually always love the time and effort you put into the father’s day gift. All these things don’t really matter. I love you all the same. You already know that you girls have me wrapped around your finger, and you put that knowledge to good use! When I was a kid we never even knew about a special day for father’s or mother’s. We knew childrens day was November 14th and that too because it was more of Nehru thatha’s birthday than anything else. For us every day was father’s day. We “paduththied” daddy all the same, on father’s day or on any other day. You do the same.
Keep the trinkets coming. Who knows, at this rate, I might actually talk to your teachers on suggestions for next years gift. I also have to go find out if mommy bankrolled the mousepad and is not telling me.
You are a darling.
Love,
Daddy.
Ps. you are doing some great work with your little sister in building her vocabulary. I can also see that you have some strange hypnotic hold over her and see listens to you more than she listens to me. Please remember, we are a team. We are counting on your new powers to help the family.
pps. Mommy tells me that she had nothing to do with the mousepad. I am really impressed wih your daycare now! I will ask for a USB drive with your photo on it for next year’s gift. I was not serious when I came up with the other relative’s days. It was just to make a point with mommy.
From
The #1 Daddy
To
All daddy’s out there (with or without the medal)!
Happy father’s day!
Sundar.
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