{"id":77805,"date":"2024-05-24T08:35:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T01:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/?p=77805"},"modified":"2024-05-24T08:35:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T01:35:54","slug":"postman-and-old-woman-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/postman-and-old-woman-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Postman and Old Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style='\"font-size:'><strong>\u201cAmma, your son has sent money order.\u201d, said postman to old lady sitting outside her house.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Seeing him, Amma\u2019s eyes sparkled.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>She said, <strong>\u201cSon! Let me first talk to my son..!\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Amma was looking at him with hopeful eyes but postman tried to avoid it and said, <strong>\u201cAmma, I don\u2019t have so much time that I can call your son every time.\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Postman wanted to go but Amma started nagging him.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>She said, <strong>\u201cSon! It will take just a while.\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><strong>\u201cAmma, don\u2019t insist on making a call every time.\u201d replied postman.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Saying this, postman started dialing a number on his mobile before handing money to Amma.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><strong>\u201cTake it but don\u2019t talk too much.\u201d, postman said handing over his mobile to Amma.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Amma took mobile from his hand. After talking to her son on mobile for a minute, Amma was happy. A smile spread across her wrinkled face.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><strong>\u201cIt\u2019s thousand rupees, Amma!\u201d saying this, postman handed over ten hundred rupees notes towards her.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>After counting money, Amma took out one hundred rupee note and giving it to postman, she said, <strong>\u201cKeep this son.\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><strong>\u201cWhy Amma?\u201d,asked postman.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Amma smiled and said, <strong>\u201cApart from giving this money order, you also let me talk to my son. it must cost money. Isn\u2019t it? So keep it.\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Postman kept denying but Amma forcefully handed over hundred rupees to him and went inside after giving him lots of blessings.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Postman had just moved a few steps from there, when suddenly someone tapped on his shoulder.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>When postman looked back, he saw that Ramu, who runs a mobile phone shop was standing infront of him.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><strong>\u201cBrother, how are you here?\u201d, asked postman.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><strong>\u201cI came here to meet someone but I have something to ask you. Brother, why do you do this every month?\u201d said Ramu to postman.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><strong>\u201cWhat have I done?\u201d, asked postman nervously.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Ramu said, <strong>\u201cEvery month you give money from your pocket to Amma. Not only that, you give me money to talk to her on phone as her son!! Why?\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Postman hesitated a bit after hearing Ramu question but then said, <strong>\u201cI don\u2019t give money to her. I give this money to my mother.\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Ramu was surprised to hear that.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Postman continued, <strong>\u201cHer son went to far away place to earn money and used to send a order of thousand rupees to his mother every month but one day, instead of money order, a letter from a friend of his son came in Amma\u2019s name.\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Ramu got curious and asked, <strong>\u201cWhat kind of letter? What was written in that letter?\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><strong>\u201cHis son lost his life due to an infection. I didn\u2019t dare to tell this to Amma who waits for few hundred rupees and hopes for her son\u2019s well being. Therefore, i continued bringing her money order every month.\u201d said postman\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><strong>\u201cBut she is not your mother..\u201d, said Ramu.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Postman replied, <strong>\u201cI also used to send thousand rupees to my mother every month but she is no more.\u201d, saying this eyes of postman were filled with tears.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Ramu who took money from her every month and used to talk to Amma as her son, was left speechless hearing this.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAmma, your son has sent money order.\u201d, said postman to old lady sitting outside her house. Seeing him, Amma\u2019s eyes sparkled. She said, \u201cSon! Let me first talk to my son..!\u201d Amma was looking at him with hopeful eyes but postman tried to avoid it and said, \u201cAmma, I don\u2019t have so much time that\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":77808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-77805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-moral-story"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Postman-and-Old-Woman-1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p></span></p></strong></span></p></strong></span></p></strong></span></p></strong></span></p></strong></span></p></span></p></strong></span></p></strong></span></p></strong></span></p></strong></span></p></strong></span></p></span></p></span></p></span></p></strong></span></p></strong></span></p></strong></span></p></strong></span></p></span></p></strong></span></p></span></p></strong></span></p></strong></span></p></span></p></strong></span></p></strong></span></p></span></p></strong></span></p>