My friend Pallavi Singh wrote on FB:

“Aahna, upset with me over something, said with intense emotion - Mamma, you are a GERM!!!! I suppose our paranoia over children catching infection is sooooo great, they believe these micro-organisms are truly abhorrent! I had a tough time stifling a chuckle!”

To this, a friend of hers. Avi Pratap Singh, responded with some verse from Ogden Nash:

“A mighty creature is the germ, Though smaller than the pachyderm. His customary dwelling place Is deep within the human race. His childish pride he often pleases By giving people strange diseases. Do you, my poppet, feel infirm? You probably contain a germ.”

So ofkose I decided to do my own Nashery:

“When for angry denouncement She looks for a suitable term, Yet feels it too rude To call you, outright, a worm… She’s understood now, that She can say,”Oh,you GERM!”