Cash in the Attic has ruined me.

[charliesmum]

I was at book club today, and we'd read this book called "Namesake" that has to do with a family originally from India, and the woman who hosted was actually from India, so she wore a sari, and served Indian food and gave us all bindis to wear.

Anyway, we were discussing the difference between arranged marriages and marriages for love, since the mother and father were from an arranged marriage and seemed to really like each other, and someone pointed out that in the book it states the husband would never have thought to bring flowers to his wife. Well Rebecca said something along the lines of how flowers aren't everything, and left and came back with a wooden box in which were 12 2 inch discs made of ivory, and on the front were beautifully rendered pictures from the Kama Sutra. She told us that it had been a gift to her mother, and was over a hundred years old.

Thanks to my Cash in the Attic addiction, however, my first thought was, "I wonder how much that would go for at auction." and I wished Jonty or Paul were there to tell me.

Sad, no?

And a quick Charlie story, I just came home, and still had the bindi on, and I showed it to Charlie, and told him what it was. "It's from India," I said.

"Oh," he says in surprise. "Did you go to India?"

"No, just book club."

"That's good. India's probably far away."

He was half asleep at the time, but it was still pretty funny.

Comments

[anngwish42.livejournal.com]

From the time I was 4 until I was about 9 or so, I firmly believed that I had been to Russia. My mom and I got on a plane, and were on it for what I considered to be a very long time, and then we got off the plane and there was a guy speaking Russian, and we went to a house where people spoke Russian for a couple of days.

Turns out? We were in Oberlin, OH, at my mother's alma mater (and my brother's current college) hanging out with a Russian immigrant friend of hers from her college days.

[leakyandsnort.livejournal.com]

My Aunt's (late) partner apparently speaks with a lot of hand motioning. We visited out there (CA) when I was 4 or 5, and until I was like 15, I thought that she was deaf and had been speaking ASL.

[slammerkinbabe.livejournal.com]

Man, I had almost the exact same experience. When I was about four or five, I was convinced that I'd been to China because I'd crossed a local bay on a boat. I mean, I knew China was across the ocean somewhere, and I knew that the bay was the ocean, and we'd crossed from one shore to the other. And then there was an Asian family across on the other shore. So I'd been to China! I knew it was a communist country, so I looked around alertly for signs of Teh Communist Ebil (this was in the '80s and my mom was big on communism being Ebil), but I couldn't find any. I was disappointed.