Ghostbusters

Sonny and I were alone at home. I was watching 1408 or rather trying to watch it after a long and hard-fought battle for the remote with the pint-sized terror in my home.

Let it be known that I had done my homework. I prefer not being scared to death and hence had sent out an SMS each to two of my horror movie aficionado friends and they had categorically assured me that I was unlikely to be encountering any strange creatures with dead pan (pun intended )faces, nor was it likely that there would be grotesque appendages popping out without warning.

But scare me it did; no not the movie, but the sudden indignant yells of "What are you watching Amma?" "And I want to watch cartoons"-this during some specially tense scenes in the movie.

Gradually it dawned on Sonny dear that Amma was a bit nervous-and that was putting it mildly. With an intuition that boggles the mind, he declared," You know what I will do when I see ghosts?" Now this seemed definitely more intriguing than the plot unfolding in front of me, and so I asked,"What?"

"I will throw some salt water on the ghosts and they will all die." Needless to say I handed over the remote.