LOVE FOOD !! HATE WASTE !!

It was my weekly shopping day. Hot afternoon and what better option to beat the heat than a glass of sweet butter milk or LASSI as we call it. While I was enjoying my lassi, there stops a car and a couple with their 5 year old boy step out. They ordered three glasses of lassi, large size. I was quite surprised, wondering whether that 5 year old would be able to consume so much. Out of courtesy, just kept quiet.
They were served, as i finished mine and as i was paying, i heard that cute boy telling his mother :
" mom ab bas aur nahi peena (mom i've had enough, don't want to drink more.)"
Out of curiosity, I looked at the glass and was not surprised to see only one-fourth had been consumed. His mother simply took the glass from him and threw it carelessly into the trash bin. All of a sudden, to my surprise, a street kid came from nowhere , just picked up the half filled glass from the bin and started licking the sides greedily so as to not even waste a drop of his treasure. He finished the left over lassi within no time and dropped the glass in the bin , all shining and clean.
I heard that couple talking to the shopkeeper, " We have to give our son the same size of glass, otherwise he won't have it. You know he is our only child and a little pampered ."
WHAT AN EXCUSE FOR A TERRIBLE CRIME !!

bY- VINITA SURANA