You'd think I'm a blockhead to get the name of the movie wrong. But wait. Draw no conclusions. This is the story of four ordinary people who did not go through some kind of magnetic storm and did not get their lives changed forever. This is a story of four people who......who...erm...um..cough cough..
So as it happened, I was on my first visit to lakshmi's house. It was a perfect day so far. Something wrong was bound to happen. I knew. But I did not know it would happen then. Exactly 5 minutes later. And it came in the form of a critter in a guy's ( wearing knickerbockers) hand. A squirrel to be precise.
One little being which would torment our lives and send us on a wild chase for the next thirty minutes of our life. Size doesn't matter ( Aaha!! Got a tagline!). It seemed friendly enough. But it was a mask. A mask to hide the face etched with the lines of slavery. I got an intuition that this was gonna be the seed of the apple, when he ( assumption ) jumped from my hand to Haran's neck. It was a jump wrongly aimed. We saw it as a cool trick. Then... He struck.
He sensed the repulsion in nithya. He knew I would hold him up for her. The split second was all he needed. No more mistakes. A perfect leap when my hand was the lowest from the ground. He landed without a sound and scurried away. He underestimated our speed in the beginning I guess. Trying to outrun us in that cramped idea was a big mistake. Haran, me , abi, lakshmi and nithya blocked all possible ways. Then he saw his escape route sitting in front of him smugly going by the name of "chevrolet optra". A quick jump and he was gone. Settling inside the mudguards seemed a master plan. Or did he have something else up its sleeve(or fur??)
We kicked, banged, screeched, crawled to no avail. Taking pity on the kid we went to "meet the parents". They came down all dressed. they were like the S.W.A.T team. Armed with milk and tutty frutty instead of the bazookas and Ak-47s. A further ten minutes later, when the not-so-fantastic four were about to give up on their search and salled it "the squirrel's quest for freedom" to ease their guilt. ( I did!!). Then a flurry of feet a swish of the tail
. The critter had crept to the next car in the lot when we had ventured up. A chase. Three ran after him, One crept the other way. He would not give in easily without a fight. He dived into the space beneath the slab beneath the electricity box before we could snare him.
He was an amateur alright. A pro would have gone for the trees. Thus we rounded up the case. Or rather left him waiting under the slab under the watchful eyes of the S.W.A.T team. We got a report that they had drawn him out an hour later. The day was saved. Or rather our skins!
P.s : This has already featured here . To keep up a promise of having two versions of the same story I posted this. Blame Nithya if you got bored!! :D
3 comments :
hey, nice version!! enjoyed it for the third time!! ;-)
Loved it totally :) Seriousa solren...Typical Sharan's version of an incident :)
And was that a Chevrolet Optra ?? didn't know that :D It was badly maintained alright !
"They came down all dressed. they were like the S.W.A.T team. Armed with milk and tutty frutty instead of the bazookas and Ak-47s."
:)) lol !
A pro would've tried climbing up the drainage pipe :| Can squirrels scale walls ?? Harry might've tried too...Who knows ??
"To keep up a promise of having two versions of the same story I posted this. Blame Nithya if you got bored!! :D"
Ahem :|
And did u save this post as draft ?? I mean, did u begin and not complete this on the 23rd ? If yes, then that is why, this post got posted below
Super! :-) so this is the boy's version, eh? ;-)
P.S: The timestamp on this post is earlier than your Ptolemy's Gate post, that's why it's getting posted after the Ptolemy post. :-)
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