Hunger Spectrum

THE TARUN TALKS

Whenever I am hungry, I wish to myself in my half sleep that people would realize that it is time to give me my input. But almost 99% of the time, I have to remind them. Many times, they have the nerve to expect me to double confirm. My evil dad even wants even more proof than my loud cries which are specially encoded for hunger.

So, I begin with a mild hint as if to nudge everyone around me into action. That is a low volume short length tone that only nearby people can hear. But when the nearby's are only crib toys that are even more immobile than me, it is no good. So, the next phase of coaxing begins. This is a set of equal length periodic tones to send a stronger message. If that also does not work, we get into a negotiation phase. Here, it is a group of unequal length, unequal volume tones that are meant to appeal. Not many people get this. So, I get into visuals. I start sucking my thumb with rapidly increasing frequency. In parallel, I accompany those with the appealing tones that people are meant to think are cute. By now I am so vexed that I assume it is not going to work, so I begin swaying my head from side to side, while sucking my thumbs and crying out appealingly. Imagine the level of coordination it takes to generate all the 3 special effects at the same time.

"No baby is wise on a hungry stomach", so as time passes on, I get hungrier and hungrier and now I swing my arm in a circular fashion, as if a right arm fast bowler would at the top of the bowler's crease. Somehow or another, THIS WORKS!! I have tried it some 50 times within my 5 week existence and it has always worked 100%. So, I have now fine tuned my strategy on the latter half of my expression. Instead of trying too hard with my thumb, timing my tones, I generate a single tone with rotating arms and soon enough, my mouth gets to work on the milk!

~ by The Tarun on July 31, 2007.