Being Victimized
Today it rained cats and dogs. Mussa was not happy. Not because he will not be able to work from home because of no power but because he was suffering from loose motions, sore throat, and fever.
What does that mean? A forced holiday down the drain. Only if Mussa had been feeling better he would have something in present and not lost down rain memory lane with the feeling of being victimized once more.
What does that mean? A forced holiday down the drain. Only if Mussa had been feeling better he would have something in present and not lost down rain memory lane with the feeling of being victimized once more.
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It was 7:30 in the morning. Mussa and his cousin sister Amrita were on road to reach school on Saturday. Saturday is half day in school and missing the half day was worth a full holiday in school books of account. Our parent were good to calculate and said go to school.
Reaching school late will result in a good hard cane on the hand. Amrita was anxious to avoid it. As if Mussa was not. Amirta had landed Mussa in this situation by coming to bus stop 15 minutes late.
All usual friends (bus mate) had already left and some other's friends parent's were not calculative enough and had decided to let them enjoy the rains. So here was Mussa and Amrita waiting in heavy rains to reach school.
"Don't talk to strangers" a familiar phrase told by each parent to their kids. Amrita was already waving her thumb at a car coming towards the bus stop. She was about to violate the familiar phrase. After she talked to the person driving the car, she had already broken the second most dreaded phrase "Never travel with strangers alone".
Amrita and I sat in the car to get a lift to the school. Amrita justified, "anything is better than the cane". Mussa agreed on that and also justified that Mussa and Amrita does not make them alone. It is the stranger who should have thought of traveling with strangers (us) alone.
They reached the school gate at 7:50 am. They had time to run to the classroom. The school had a big campus which is good walk and stroll for people on time. Mussa was about to run when Amrita was just standing besides the car.
To Mussa's shock, Amrita let go of her umbrella and started running with the car as it departed. Mussa started running besides her not knowing why Amrita was running. More so even he had no idea why he was running. Rain was so heavy that the stranger in the car never knew that we were running with his car.
They finally stopped running when the car stopped at the signal. Amrita was in pain and she banged at the door. Mussa saw what was happening. Amrita had her last finger stuck in the door. Mussa tried to reach the front of the car to stop the stranger but he tripped on Amrita, lost his umbrella and he was lying flat on his stomach on the muddy road.
Mussa was trying to get up when the stranger came out of the car. He unlocked the door and freed Amrita. Stranger said, "Why, that was the loudest bang I ever heard". That is when Mussa realized that he had banged his tiffin box on the side of the car and created a huge dent. Two-way apology followed and they were running towards the school gate which was now a block away.
Mussa was ahead and then Amrita was ahead and then both finished the race by running into the class together. They won the race. They were Olympic runners. But not so good Mussa guessed as Amrita dashed into class teacher trying to decelerate and Mussa tripped for the second time on his sister and ended up giving a WWF forehand suplex to the class teacher who saw herself flying off the ground and hitting the wall.
Pin drop silence in the class treated them as the three victims go up on their feet. Two drenched student without umbrella in this heavy rain. To top it, Mussa with a brown shirt full of mud instead of standard white, teacher figured out what was wrong. Teacher slapped Mussa and said, "You devil, why were you running behind her. See how scared she is. You brat, I know you are the naughtiest student in the class but now your mischief have increased. Stand right here".
Teacher helped Amrita in her sit and checked if she was fine. Amrita nodded. Teacher removed the cane from the drawer and hit Mussa on his bare leg. Mussa screamed. That gave him a bonus hit. Then teacher looked at the time and gave him double bonus with 2 hits. All this while Amrita was quite. Mussa pleaded for mercy with his eyes expressing to Amrita to explain he was innocent. But she just smiled.
When Mussa had at least 6 shots of the cane on his legs and hands and teacher was about to let him go, Mussa gave a killer look to Amrita. Amrita started crying holding her last finger. Teacher looked at it and said, "See you brat, now who is answerable for this"
Half an hour and they were in principal's room with Mussa's parents and Amrita's parents braving the heavy rains. Teacher explained the complete story of a culprit Mussa victimizing Amrita.
Mussa screamed as usual in the room at the top of his lungs about his innocence. Amrita just smiled.
At home early from half day school, Mussa was standing in one place on the terrace as punishment, getting drenched in the heavy rains while Amrita was treated as a VIP getting hot tea and pakodas.
Reaching school late will result in a good hard cane on the hand. Amrita was anxious to avoid it. As if Mussa was not. Amirta had landed Mussa in this situation by coming to bus stop 15 minutes late.
All usual friends (bus mate) had already left and some other's friends parent's were not calculative enough and had decided to let them enjoy the rains. So here was Mussa and Amrita waiting in heavy rains to reach school.
"Don't talk to strangers" a familiar phrase told by each parent to their kids. Amrita was already waving her thumb at a car coming towards the bus stop. She was about to violate the familiar phrase. After she talked to the person driving the car, she had already broken the second most dreaded phrase "Never travel with strangers alone".
Amrita and I sat in the car to get a lift to the school. Amrita justified, "anything is better than the cane". Mussa agreed on that and also justified that Mussa and Amrita does not make them alone. It is the stranger who should have thought of traveling with strangers (us) alone.
They reached the school gate at 7:50 am. They had time to run to the classroom. The school had a big campus which is good walk and stroll for people on time. Mussa was about to run when Amrita was just standing besides the car.
To Mussa's shock, Amrita let go of her umbrella and started running with the car as it departed. Mussa started running besides her not knowing why Amrita was running. More so even he had no idea why he was running. Rain was so heavy that the stranger in the car never knew that we were running with his car.
They finally stopped running when the car stopped at the signal. Amrita was in pain and she banged at the door. Mussa saw what was happening. Amrita had her last finger stuck in the door. Mussa tried to reach the front of the car to stop the stranger but he tripped on Amrita, lost his umbrella and he was lying flat on his stomach on the muddy road.
Mussa was trying to get up when the stranger came out of the car. He unlocked the door and freed Amrita. Stranger said, "Why, that was the loudest bang I ever heard". That is when Mussa realized that he had banged his tiffin box on the side of the car and created a huge dent. Two-way apology followed and they were running towards the school gate which was now a block away.
Mussa was ahead and then Amrita was ahead and then both finished the race by running into the class together. They won the race. They were Olympic runners. But not so good Mussa guessed as Amrita dashed into class teacher trying to decelerate and Mussa tripped for the second time on his sister and ended up giving a WWF forehand suplex to the class teacher who saw herself flying off the ground and hitting the wall.
Pin drop silence in the class treated them as the three victims go up on their feet. Two drenched student without umbrella in this heavy rain. To top it, Mussa with a brown shirt full of mud instead of standard white, teacher figured out what was wrong. Teacher slapped Mussa and said, "You devil, why were you running behind her. See how scared she is. You brat, I know you are the naughtiest student in the class but now your mischief have increased. Stand right here".
Teacher helped Amrita in her sit and checked if she was fine. Amrita nodded. Teacher removed the cane from the drawer and hit Mussa on his bare leg. Mussa screamed. That gave him a bonus hit. Then teacher looked at the time and gave him double bonus with 2 hits. All this while Amrita was quite. Mussa pleaded for mercy with his eyes expressing to Amrita to explain he was innocent. But she just smiled.
When Mussa had at least 6 shots of the cane on his legs and hands and teacher was about to let him go, Mussa gave a killer look to Amrita. Amrita started crying holding her last finger. Teacher looked at it and said, "See you brat, now who is answerable for this"
Half an hour and they were in principal's room with Mussa's parents and Amrita's parents braving the heavy rains. Teacher explained the complete story of a culprit Mussa victimizing Amrita.
Mussa screamed as usual in the room at the top of his lungs about his innocence. Amrita just smiled.
At home early from half day school, Mussa was standing in one place on the terrace as punishment, getting drenched in the heavy rains while Amrita was treated as a VIP getting hot tea and pakodas.
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Coming out of the memory lane, things are still the same. Here is Mussa, and Amrita had been changed to a forced holiday.
posted by Mihir Damniwala | 12:05 AM
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