[A Spell Mistek…- Hilarious Short Story]
Disclaimer: This story was narrated to us by one of our class mate. All the names, events and places are imaginary.
When I was in 8th standard, our hostel was shifted to a new location, new place, new friends, no early getting up, no warden… we were enjoying wonderful days.
Our room was special — always live and full of entertainment. Slowly it became haven for all… open for all… common room… anyone known or unknown, authenticated or unauthenticated, whosoever used to come into our room to have fun. None really bothered about our privacy. Anyone could come into our room as and when he liked, no need for any invitation or permission. What could we do? We the roommates started thinking ways to stop these uninvited intruders, our uninvited friends.
“Yes. got an idea!!” the well known hero Mr. AK yelled. If it was from AK the idea cannot be bad. So we all eagerly waited for him, looking for his mouth to open and tell us the idea. “An idea can change your life” so he kept us waited, enjoying our curiosity. After a few minutes of waiting, finally he disclosed the idea “Just keep a notice board on the door”. Idea was nice and simple. A card board piece was collected and our HERO wrote the warning on it and displayed it outside our room.
We hanged the board outside the door. But in vain, literally no effect, now more intruders, our uninvited friends, used to enter our room as if giving us a feeling that any warning notice could not be applicable to them.
It was around 9:30 PM. As usual, we were making lot of noise; while one person was busy reading our notice, finally there was one who read. He knocked the door; somebody responded in our typical hostel style and opened the door. He was not smiling, and we have never seen him smiling even later in school time. We were smart so assumed that he should be the new house warden (HW).
We did not invite him in, so he invited all of us to his room. We all went to his room and waited for HW to say something. He kept quiet for some movement; we were losing our precious time. We would have to play 28, Donkey and many such CARD games; some intelligent people among us used to play CHESS as well. Finally our respected HW opened his mouth, “I am Mr. Kuppu, your new Hostel Warden”, he had exploded the next secret “I have joined as the English Teacher” — That was a real relief for us. We were fed up with our previous English Teacher.
He asked, “who wrote the warning notice on door?”, we kept quiet. He asked 3 more times; we kept quiet. He asked me to get the notice. Within no time I ran to bring the warning notice board to our HW’s room. I thought that he might need this board to his room. I was bit jealous of HERO who wrote this. See, he made impression on our new HW within no time.
I gave the notice board to HW. He carefully held it and yelled, “What is written here?” We again kept quiet, that was our normal policy — kept quiet and be united when we feel things are not going right. We continued to be quiet. Believe me that is the best effective trick we should practice in our life today also — it will save us from many problems.
Finally he asked each of us to read the notice loud, “NO ADMITION WITH OUT PERMITION”.
“You all write the miss-spelled words 500 times before you go to sleep”. Punishment was given. Mistake was done by one person, our HERO, and punishment for for all… Justice was denied to us… moreover we couldn’t go for an appeal against the verdict. It was almost 10 PM.. It will take at least 3 hours to write 2 words 500 times each.
We all went back to the room and started writing. Our HERO became Super HERO with just his great idea of warning notice board.
And regarding Kuppu Sir, it was just a beginning. He always believed that writing is learning.
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