What a morning!!!
This morning Dhiren continued obsessing about India`s Moon Mission.
S `Let me try to read it for you now it`s daylight.`
D `I don`t need you to read it. I can read it myself.`
S `Oh good. I thought you needed help.`
D `I need help to go. I must go to India to see the moon mission, but I don`t know he phone number. Will you phone for me.`
S `Who do you want me to phone?`
D `The space mission. I need to know it`s true. I can`t believe it.`
S `It must be true. It`s written in the magazine and I`ve printed articles for you from the Times of India.`
D `But I have to see it for myself. I must go. I want you to take £500 out of the bank for me. You can have half and I`ll have the rest. I`ll go to see if it`s true and then come back.`
S `All right.`
D `When will you get the money?`
S `I will have to give one week`s notice.`
D `Have you got a plastic bag for my clothes.`
S `I`ll get a suitcase out when you`re ready to go.`
He started to get shirts out of the wardrobe and I managed to persuade him to let me put them back until he was ready to go.
At this stage I was beginning to panic. What I have related above is a shortened version of what was said. I nearly phoned Terry, I was out of my depth.
To distract him I suggested we go out for lunch, which we did. Five minutes out of the house he decided he might be going on a wild goose chase, he might not find his family and if he did they might not know him. He did not want to make a fool of himself, he might not be able to find the moon mission and he would have gone for nothing.
He would have wasted our money.
All the time while we were out he was talking himself out of going. I encouraged him by saying I didn`t want him to go, I would miss him, I would worry about him. And he was saying he`s too old to travel so far by himself, he would miss Paul and the children, he had a family here.
On the bus on the way home he said, `You gave me a shock when you told me to go to the moon by myself. How could you.`