I am going to tell a story about when My Mother was first-time pregnant. Our house was under construction then and only some rooms on the ground floor had been completed. As the construction work was going on, only one toilet was completed. To use it my parents had to leave the bedroom and go through the balcony. Because the toilet was at the end of the balcony. But the balcony was open and no wall or grill was provided. At the time when I am telling you the story, most of the areas of Dhaka city had croplands and there were many trees. The land next to our house was also cropland. Since the work was going on, the boundary wall of the house was not yet put up. One day my mother needed to go to the toilet late at night. Since she was pregnant, my father had already told her, 'If you ever need to go to the toilet at night, call me. Never go to the toilet alone at night. ' My mother went to call my father for this, but when he called my father, he was in deep sleep, that's why she left the room to go to the toilet alone. She walked out the door and down the porch to the left. Because the toilet was at the end of the balcony. Then she noticed a woman about ten feet away walking across the cropland just like her. She stopped and looked at the woman. She thought who was walking by the land at night? She tried to see her face, but could not because her face was covered with a veil. My mother thought she might recognize the woman because she was walking past the land towards the Khan's villa behind our house. And my mother is well acquainted with everyone in that house. So she called the woman loudly and asked, 'Hey! Who are you? And where are you going at night? Hearing this, the woman changed the direction of walking and entered the cropland. And started walking in the opposite direction from my mother. Seeing this situation, my mother started calling the woman louder. Just then my father came out of the room. Because the sound of my mother's call woke him up. He came and asked first, 'Who are you calling? In response, mother showed the woman and told father that the woman was going towards the Khan's Villa. And when mother called her, she started walking through the land. After hearing all the words and observing the woman for a while, father hurriedly came back home holding her hand.
After closing the room door, my father started scolding my mother, 'I didn't tell you to call me if you need to go to the toilet at night. Never go out alone. What would I do if I lost you today? ' Mother asked, 'Why? What happened? Who will harm me? ' Dad said, 'Did you notice the woman you were calling? Did not see anything unusual in her? ' My mother recall the whole incident and was shocked and said, 'You are right, the woman was not normal at all. Because when she was walking her feet were not touching the ground. She was floating in the air. I didn't notice until now, I remembered because you say. ' My father said, 'Yes, you never even noticed that an ordinary person would walk past the cropland like this at night. That was something bad going through here somewhere. Where she was passing, there were only fields and fields, the place was not good. You should have noticed that there was no way for people to go there. You're lucky you got in her way and she didn't do anything to you. Otherwise, such an incident could have happened that she would have killed you for blocking the way.
From then on, my mother was so scared that she would never go to the toilet alone at night.
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