Skippa & Hyper, Jinns stories in a happy topic? Anigaa la ii dan leeyahay.
I remember playing all sorts of outdoor activities with siblings and neighbors. We had this evangelical Christian neighbors (2 boys and a girl, lol so caddan). Anyways these kids had everything, bikes, scooters, rollerblades, go karts, playstation, gameboys, you name it they had it. We use to come home from school drop our school bags and play until the sun went down. On the weekends they would forget we have dugsi and knock on our door asking for us and my parents would be tell them we're at Quran school and we'd do the same Sunday mornings too when they had bible studies.
We use to play down ball (I don't know what you guys call it), basically draw up four squares (for the four players and you have one ball which is only permitted to bounce once in your square and you have to try get each other out. Anyways we use to make the game slightly more interesting. You had to name a soccer players/actors/ countries in a certain continent whatever the theme was whenever you had the ball before you pass it on. So, one time we were listing famous people and one of my brothers got stuck and then he blurts out his own name "Mohamed". One of the boys who was my age 8 yrs at the time was like
"You're out! You're out! Mohamed isn't a famous person's name".
My siblings and I look at each other dumbfound all wondering who is going to try and explain this one without coming across as bias and their father was watching us play and he was like
"No, Mohamed is a prophet in Islam, along with Adam, Abraham and Moses. He's right and he's not out". Neat save. Looking back it we were the pioneers of religious tolerance.
Another memory that sticks is playing with two of my girl cousins and my sister. We use to play pranks on each other. Anyone one day, my elder cousin and sister (both 3 yrs older than us) convinced my cousin who is my age and I that they were real life witches with superpowers. Clearly, we watched too much Sabrina The Teenage Witch and Bewitched episodes.
They told us, they had to keep this shit a secret and if we trained hard enough we could become licensed witches too. We would enthusiastically jump from our fence trying hard to fly and they would smile at us with encouraging looks like"you're nearly there". They would step on our stomachs if we misbehaved (xaasideen, I still I haven't forgiven them). Not only that they would get us to do basic stuff for them else they would "make us pay by giving us the touch of death". I kinda knew it wasn't true but better safe then sorry. I think after too much of "Ina...get me a drink, carry my school bag, let me have your turn on the playstation" I got sick of it and figured I don't mind the touch of the death than this sad existence. So, I finally told hooyo about it and needless to say they put a stop to their unethical prank. I know, I was pretty gullible.
