The wish as well as the hope of being a super human is the strongest in childhood before one realizes the futility of all of it. One fine day our son, RRJ, declared, “Amma, I will be spiderman today and everyday”, which essentially meant the T-shirt with spiderman printed on it will be worn every day then on. For the next week it was getting washed every morning, being worn by the afternoon, still damp, and removed only before going to school next day. What happened in the weekends is a dark secret people with exaggerated sense of hygiene needn’t know. A friend coming to know of our plight immediately dug out a couple more from her daughter’s wardrobe and one we found hidden in pile of some gifts. Four shirts and ropes hanging in the balcony were ample arrangements to keep the spidey spirit alive throughout the week.
Being in the friendly neighbourhood of spiderman of course had its undeniable advantages as he very soon started his rescue operation:
RRJ: Amma, I want to be strong like spiderman. Does spiderman have spinach?
Amma: Sure he does, but if you don’t like you don’t have to. (that was brave on amma’s part)
RRJ: Give me spinach and everything else. And hot-hot (pickle that is)?
Amma: Oh no, spiderman doesn’t have hot-hot because then he has to drink a lot of water to make it cool and he can’t enough food.
RRJ: hmmm… I will also not have. May be I can have only a little bit.
Amma: What happened RRJ, many days no fuss?
RRJ: Oh… I can’t fuss anymore. I am the spiderman. Spider man–spider man.
"Spiderman, Spiderman,
Does whatever a spider can
Spins a web, any size,
Catches thieves just like flies
Look Out!
Here comes the Spiderman.
To him, life is a great big bang up
Whenever there's a hang up
You'll find the Spider man."
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