"Chal Nanna!"

Praveen and the other fathers see each other off with the Hindi farewell, "Chal!" followed by the name of the person and a hand wave. He now gets on his bike, raises his right arm and says, "Chal, nanna!" and "Chal, amma!" before setting off.

He rides his bike in the living room most times and has an annoying habit of continuing to press his foot down on the accelerator in the forward mode when he hits an obstacle. He is well aware of the switch to reverse the bike, but it almost seems like he lets it whirl for a few seconds against the obstacle just to test its limits, as though hoping that one fine evening he will be able to break through it and continue on. He always needs a yell from me or a reminder from his dad - as the case may be - to use the reverse switch.