The ½ plate pani puri

It was long dusk after a hectic day of ganesh chaturthi…but our work list didn’t cease to exist, we had to now go in one of the mandirs to collect some Prasad. Due to rickshaw and bus unavailability and sudden “need” for mamra my sister had developed, my best friend (none other than my mother) and I dragged our weary feet back home, since the “bhatti” where we would get “mudhi or mamra”. We approached the place and my mother asked if I would like to have anything. “maybe pani puri…but only if you are having” she seemed to think for some time.. “ but we have to have food at home” she said as an afterthought. “maybe we can have only one plate” I countered, she seem to agree. And so we stood with a teeny steel plate in front of the pani puriwala and starting gorging in the sweet+spicy parcels of delight. Correctly distributed between us, the 6 pooris werr gone within no time and punched later with batata puri neutralizer, and we trudged back home, just in time for some warm reheated food , our feet gathered speed maybe by the spiky water of pani puri???