Little Ali and the Freezer

Hello, everyone.

    I am going to tell you another one of little Ali’s stories. Ali tries to help his mother to put away the shopping things. What happens will leave in stitches!

Little Ali and the Freezer

    Ali’s mother took him with her to do the monthly shopping. She always told him to hold her hand and when she was busy taking the things she wanted she told him to hold on to her Punjabi top she was wearing. Today she had to do a lot of shopping as she was going to be very busy that month. So she decided to buy some frozen things as well. Things that she normally would make at home like fries or fresh peas. This time she bought frozen ones as she knew she would not have much time to cook as she wanted to clean the whole house. Ali’s mother finished her shopping and went home.

    When they reached home she immediately started to put all the things away. Now this time, there were more frozen things and so started with that. Now one thing that Ali loved to do was to put things in the freezer but his mother did not allow him to do that for fear of him falling in. Seeing his mother putting away the things he started his tantrums.

    “Mommy, can I put the things in the freezer?” he asked, knowing very well his mother would refuse.

    “Ali, how many times have I told you, no?” she said.

    “But, Mommy I will be careful,” he insisted.

    “Well, alright,” she said with a sigh. “Put the things on the top shelf and then I will come and stack them at the bottom. You don’t put them there. You will fall inside.”

    “Alright, Mommy,” he said and took a packet of meat and a packet of fries.

    When he reached the freezer which was in the dining room he opened it and put the things on the top shelf. Then, he looked inside the freezer and decided it was not so deep. He could easily put it at the bottom. Imagine his mother’s surprise when she would see that he had done it!

    So he took the packet of meat started to put it down. The freezer was high and he couldn’t reach so tried to stretch and put it at the bottom. It was far down and he still could not reach down and so stretched even more. In doing so, he fell inside with his hands at the bottom and his legs stretched out at the top. He couldn’t get out and he started to bawl.

   “Mommyyyy! Help! Help” he yelled and screamed.

    His mother was in the kitchen putting the things away. When she heard him she knew at once what had happened and ran to where he was. When she saw him with his top inside and his legs waving in the air she wanted to laugh but suppressed her laughter. She ran and tried to put him right but his hands had got stuck at the bottom. She quickly brought some water in a jug and poured it there which melted the dry ice and freed his hands. She put took him out and stood him up. She looked at him and she wanted to be angry with him but couldn’t. She remembered the sight of him when he had fallen inside the freezer. His chubby legs waving in the air! It was such a funny sight that she just couldn’t scold him and instead burst out laughing. She laughed so hard she was bent double. When Ali saw his mother laughing he bawled even louder.

    “I’m sorry, Ali,” she said, wiping her tears, “but you looked so funny. You see now what happens when you don’t listen to Mommy?”

    Ali stopped crying and looked ashamed of himself.

    “I’m sorry, Mommy,” he said, hanging his head. “I won’t do it again.”

    “See that it doesn’t happen again,” his mother said with a hug. “Now run along and play. I will finish the rest of the work.”

     Ali did not dare ask his mother to help after what had just happened and so he just went away meekly to play.

    In the evening when Ali’s father came home he was given the story and even he chuckled. This time Ali did not cry but he giggled as well.