The curious case of egg seller

It was a holiday, I was sitting with Nikhil, playing in front of my house. We've been bestest of friends from age of 3 and were each other's best company through out our childhood. So, we were THE partners in crime. Now, going back to the day this incident happened, as we were playing, we heard the screeching voice which is so typical of a regular hawker, but what he had on his cart was not the fruits/vegetables/toys we regularly saw, but lots and lots of eggs. We'd never seen a egg seller on our street before, both of us coming from conservative backgrounds, had never seen so many eggs before n up so close.
All we knew was, its a taboo to eat eggs, but we both had some evil thoughts already, we wanted to go see, hold an egg in our hands, find out how can somebody eat something that looks so weird(at least i thought it looked weird :P).
The next moment, we went to him, picked up an egg each in both our hands, examining the egg we asked him for the price pretending to be genuine buyers, and he was too happy as he'd sold no eggs in the street and he wouldn't sell any as ours was one of the last houses there. Such a weird shape it had, the outer shell was hard to my surprise, had a thousand questions in my head and before I'd clear all that, in no time, my mother came out of the house, she saw us holding the eggs in our hands and hell broke loose, NIkhil's mother was there too.
That's it, we both were scared to death, I thought we would be thrown out of the house for this dastardly act. We dropped the eggs, splash the shell broke into pieces and the yolk was on the road.. dirty thing, never knew there was a liquid under the hard shell, couldn't help wondering how could some one eat/drink that. We ran off from there, to escape the wrath of our mothers and were back at home after a stroll in the neighborhood. what followed was the lecture advising us not to ever touch the egg again :), the egg seller was the target of their wrath, he was paid 25 paisa for each egg we broke, 4 in total and warned off never to come to our street again.
The story became a legend in both of our families and retold to many as a funny incident, often highlighting the part of we getting scared, breaking the egg and running away from the scene and every one of them found it funny for some reason I still cant figure out!

PS: This incident happened when we were 5 years old and for some reason, I've never been able to forget it.