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Finding Dad is an interesting, funny tale about a very ridiculous incident happen in the family. It shares some beautiful memories of a old man. Read the tale to know what happen.

 

The story is as follows:

Today, when I was reading newspaper in my room suddenly my heart inclined towards that old Almira of my house. It was raining outside, I was reading the headlines siting on the chair when I get a sight of that. I get up of the chair and went to it, opened it and start gazing at that part of Almira where some beautiful memories of our past times were kept securly in a photo album. 

 I gazed at them for a short while and then took it out. In all that my wife, Nisha, arrived with the mugs of coffee in a tray. She asked, “ what happened? what are you doing there near the cupboard today?” I moved to her with the album in my hand, she saw it and said, “Oh, so today, my old husband want to refresh the memories of his childhood.” 

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I  nodded my head and said with a smile, “yes my old wife, you are right, let’s enjoy the golden memories of our past times with the sips of coffee.” She laughingly said, “yes, why not”, and I went to balcony and sat down on a chair, she also came to me and sit down on the other one and handed me the coffee and then I opened the album.  

It was the monsoon season and the rain was continuous, the little drops that were falling on the plants outside the balcony were making a beautiful atmosphere to enjoy those days. Then we began to recall the beautiful moments of our past, as we were looking the photographs and turning the pictures one by one we reached to the image of my father in which he was standing with a box in his hands and was totally covered with mud and my mother was looking at him with anger.

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I began to laugh and asked, “Do you remember that day?”. She replied, “Why not, how could I forget that, that day your dad had just make us all fall in trouble”, she laughed. I said, “28 years are passed away to that incident but still today whenever the memories of that day stuck my mind it makes me laugh.” “Yes, it’s true, your dad had done such a thing”, she said while sipping coffee.

It was the tale of those times when I used to live in India with my father, mother and wife in the great mansion of my great grandfather’s. My father used to tell me that his grandfather was a great and reputed head of the village. He used to gave the perfect kind of solution to any kind of problem. Everyone in village respected him a lot. That house was also made under his rule. 

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It was very huge and beautiful,  backside of it there was an old house which my father told me was the house where my grand grandfather used to live before that one, and it was still there when we used to live. It was a beautiful and big mansion and my great grandfather used to take care of that. He maintained it and kept the mansion restored under his guidance for many years.

My wife told me that once when she was cleaning the store room with my mother, my father came there and he also began to help them and then he opened the old box of his father and began to check the things in it and suddenly he found some old papers that belong to his father and on seeing them he immediately rushed out of the room with a rare smile on his face. 

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Seeing him moving out without cleaning the things that he scattered, mom scolded him but he ignored her saying that he will clean it after some time and went away. Mom said that he is really a great lazy person who only used to say to help but never did. Then she and my wife clean everything and locked the room. 

Two hours were passed away but dad didn’t return back. They turned worried, when Nisha contacted him, she found that he left his phone in his room. They waited for another an hour but when he didn’t returned, they started searching him. They asked to the servants and outside in neighbour houses and shops but they also were unable to tell about him. Some shopkeepers said that they didn’t saw him going out, he was not out. 

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Then, each and every part of the mansion was checked out but he was no where. Then, my wife observed that one place was left unchecked. She rushed to the old house, when she reached there, she found the door of the house open. 

She confirmed that may dad arrived here, she call him aloud many a times but no one answered. Behind her, my mother also arrived and she asked, “is he came here?” Nisha said, "I don’t know exactly, mom but may be because the door was open." Then they began to search him here and there, they send some servants to look up the house but no one was able to find him. All were again and again calling him but they get no reply. 

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When Nisha with mom went to the basement they listened someone calling for help in the basement. She asked, “dad, are you there?”, but only the sounds of “help, help” were returning back. She was confirmed that he is dad. She asked every servant to search each and every part of the basement but all were unable to know that from where does the sound was coming. They neither get any door nor any hole from where they can say that he can go inside or he may be there. Then, Nisha called me when I was in office, she asked me to come immediately as dad was lost in his own house.

As soon as I get the news, I immediately rushed to home. When I reached there, she told me that dad was missing for last four hours. Everyone from neighborhood was collected in front of the old house, they all were amazed to see that how could a person would be lost in his own house. No one was able  to find him, no one was getting any sign to reach to him, and my mom was very shocked and I was blaming to both the ladies for not taking care of him. 

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We all were standing outside the house when I found some one  coming out of the chimney of the house. When I looked carefully I saw that he was dad, who was totally covered with mud. When he saw us, he started moving his hands in air saying, “I am here, help me coming down. The ladder is broken.”

I shouted aloud saying, “dad, what are you doing there? And why you were not answering?” He said, “ bring me down first.” Then some servants helped him and took him down. Mom get a sigh of relief and I and my wife, Nisha too. Nisha asked, “Dad, where have you gone?”, and then she saw a box in his hands, “what is in it?” He said, “I am sorry for all that. Why this huge crowd was collected here?” 

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I answered, “because of you. Do you know that it has been five hours passed away, where were you gone away and what were you doing in the chimney, dad?” He answered, “oh child, I am sorry, I don’t know that it will be so risky.”  “What are you doing there in the chimney?”, mom asked angrily and all others had questions on their faces that where he was lost away? He said that he was feeling sorry for his mistake and requested all to go back.

I said sorry to all the neighbours and requested them to go back. When all were gone, mom asked him angrily, “what was the need of all this?” “It’s really an interesting tale, and you will become very happy when you came to know what I am going to tell you all”, he said. “Happy, dad seriously, means what I can say, firstly you make us all afraid and now you are saying to be happy with all this”, I replied him in a serious tone. 

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“Listen me, I got this letter of my father, your grandfather, who had written that he had hide two precious diamonds, some gold coins and some jewellery along with some other things in a big box down the basement.” “What? Diamond, jewellery, seriously dad, but basement was not there it was down the floor.” 

“I know but this map had a path from where there is a hidden way to go downside the basement and do you know that this house has many hidden rooms and places? Today I came to know that my grandfather is really a great person who had made such a fantastic house of secrets and no one ever told me anything about it, when I saw this map and a letter from the old box in store room, I shocked and when I saw map I found that there is one secret room in this old house, the way is  from the Almira of the room that was present in the back room, I went inside it and started finding the room, there were many webs and dust and the place was muddy since it was not completly constructed. I entered the room and found this box from there, but when I was returning back, I lost. I get no way to come out and then I began to shout for help, but when I get no answer, I saw the map and found that there’s a way that was to the chimney. So I reached there and began to  climb but it was very slippery and one time I was fallen down in the mud. Some way I get out of there with this box.” 

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“Really dad, really there is a secret room in this house, wow, and is there really diamond, jewellery and coins present in this box?”, asked Nisha. “I don’t know because I didn’t open the box, take it and open it”, said dad giving the box to Nisha. Then she took the box and started opening it, I and mom were not really sure that whatever dad is saying is true. We all were just waiting for the results, and when she opened the box and looked at it, it’s out of words. She showed it to me and I was shocked to see it. 

There were some old toys of clay, some pieces of jewellery that were rusted and a few coins of silver and nothing else. We all were surprised to see the result of dad’s great efforts and the way he made us all mad. “What? How this happened?”, said dad totally  shocked.

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I said, “wow, really, it was the treasure? Dad I thought really my grandpa was a rich person who had a great treasure, but he was an interesting one who used to play treasure-treasure with his friends and today he  made us all fool”, and we all began to laugh at the foolish thought of treasure. 

Then I said, “it's ok, let’s take a pic of today's so that it will always remind us of the play of grandpa he played with my dad and the dream we imagined for a short while”, and then I took my camera out and clicked a pic of dad, who was totally covered with mud and mom looking at him with anger. But one thing that was most interesting was that we came to know some really interesting secrets of our own family. First was that the old house was really an interesting place having secret places that were never came in front of us before and secondly, we came to know about our grandfather's favorite game, treasure-treasure.

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