When we moved to our current house in CT I asked this question and the answer was:
Its a door for outside access to the basement for getting bulky/dirty things in/out of the basement without going through the formal first floor areas of the house
We had never used it and it had always been a Dark, Dirty, Spider-web-filled, ugly looking slant door in the backyard, that our kids would often use for jumping on or as a slide at-times.
But today, I discovered a NEW use for this un-explored door.
"For getting out of your basement when Neel locks you in the basement and cries nonstop for half hour and does not know how to unlock."
Tonight, when I was in the basement getting the folded Laundry upstairs, Gauri came downstairs and closed the basement door so Neel wouldn’t climb down too. Soon Neel started crying and I climbed up to open the door for him, only to find that it had been locked from outside. Holy Sh... - what am I going to do now? Cellphone - Damn I dont have any of my neighbours' numbers in it, I just got a new phone after losing one in trash (again thanks to Mr. Neel) so my contact list was - GONE. Half nervous and half frightened, with two screaming babies in the background I remembered “The BulkHead”.
After struggling hard with the darkness inside it, the cobwebs and the badly rusted door latch that became almost impossible to open, I was finally out. I rushed to the back door on the patio, again to find that it was locked from inside too. I immediately ran to the front door almost thinking that if that’s also locked I am going to break the window and JUST GET IN. Poor Neel had turned all red and blue from crying and being alone. Thanks to Krishna, the front door was unlocked.
We then had a BIG group hug - all three of us.
On another note - today wasn’t all that crappy after all; we actually had loads of fun in the afternoon in our new water pool. These pictures will speak for themselves.
Neel and Gauri after the water play.
Thank You Bulkhead - you saved us today :)
3 comments:
ohh my god...is it necessary that each one of us have to go for the same experience...?
i can't forget the time when Chaitanya locked me and it was a continous 2 1/2 long fight.
i understand whatall you've been through...because its not us but the kids that we are worried about.
hota hai bhabhi hota hai....in shaitan baccho k saath aisi choti choti baaten hoti rehti hain.. :0)
and bhabhi in the next pic is gauri wearing some tattoo on her leg.
we love you our darling sweeti pies
Tanu chachi.
Tanu, I can now 100% understand how it must have ben for you and Chaitanya that other time.
It was one of the longest half hours of my life after that other time when we had to give little Gauri to the Doctors in the OT for endoscopy. I hate these times when we feel helpless and just have to see our kids in distress. I felt so sorry for Neel and Gauri - I should have been more careful!!
And yes that's Miss G's flower tattoo - not a real one, just one of those Stickers :)
wow, they look so big, boo... I am missing seeing them grow! Goodness, that must have been scary down there knowing he was screaming. I know I did something similar with Shealyn as a baby, not in the basement, but I think the garage.
The pool shots look awesome, happy happy kid'os! Way to turn the day around and have a blast.
Big hugs to you all!
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