Life is a Joke! Enjoy It!

Anger and frustration engulfs a helpless person, as nothing more or much he could do. So when the Bush administration took up the infamous invasion of Iraq and was involved in misadventures at every step, what could a citizen do? Probably at best, what could be done is organize public opinion against the move. President Bush got not only this wrong, his so called fight against terror sounded empty rhetoric and sloganeering than as any sincere cause of action. It is very sad and disgusting that the President led us to a war and took us back by couple of centuries.

When mom was busy in the kitchen and wanted us – me and my sister – to go to the neighborhood store and quickly collect some grocery, we took off merrily with few cents thrust in our hand. But we were lured by the temptation devil! Both of us were finding it too difficult to resist the temptations of the chocolates stacked in the store. We spent all the cents on chocolates, slowly walked back home, finishing off all the chocolates! With sorrow faces, we told her that we lost the coins and our loving mom gave us more cents to buy the grocery!

At school, we had an English teacher who made us write very long impositions, when ever we erred in our grammar. There was a resourceful student in the class – he used to write in the first three pages and end up writing the last pages, leaving the mid- pages totally blank! As the teacher wanted us to repeat the writings only as a learning process he just collected the papers and used to put it away. He happily continued doing this much to our chagrin, till one day accidentally the blank papers showed up. Today this student is a professor himself!

Those were the days when my dad had a Harley Davidson, the bike everyone desired. With great difficulty I learnt to drive it early in my teen age, with and without my dad’s help! One day when my dad was away, the temptation to show off my newly acquired skills was over bearing and so I took out the keys stealthily and decided to drive it to meet my friends. But alas my desire was not to be fulfilled as I straightaway bumped on to a cop, only to be charged with a token! Even now I remember my pleadings with the cop!

My dad, in a bid to cultivate interest in sports, used to take me to the club where he used to play tennis. And later he also presented me with a baseball kit. I and my friends were overjoyed and started playing baseball in the neighborhood parks. What I used to do then as a ten year old amuses me even now! I used to make it a point to continue playing even after getting out and if some one insists that I was out, used to walk out – lock, stick and barrel – with the kit to put an abrupt end to the game.

Christmas brings in joy to everyone, but more to the kids. It was during one such Christmas, my mom started decorating the Christmas tree. She had lots of small gifts wrapped up and was busy tying them up. And not wanting to be disturbed she asked me to bring any gift, that I had got for my birthday, just a couple of weeks earlier, so that that could also be tied and displayed. I went in and came back after some time with a well decorated bicycle and asked her to tie it up in the Tree, much to her amusement and laughter.

Smith was the German shepherd we reared. He was naughty to the core, though very disciplined. But he never missed out an opportunity to give a slip and move out to pick up a quarrel with a neighborhood mongrel! One evening as he was missing at home I set out to look for him in the neighborhood and in the nearby parks. He was not to be seen anywhere and after a long vain search slept very late. Early the next morning he stealthily walked in with full of stench and slush. I was overjoyed, but spent the next two hours giving him a huge bath!

It was a hot afternoon, but I and my sister were very happy returning after the shopping with our dad with more than our usual share of chocolates! As our mom was away, dad thought of keeping us in good humor and hence the helpings! In a bid to reciprocate we helped him move everything in from the car, before settling on our chocolates! The next morning was chaotic as dad was frantically searching the car keys. Without the keys that day we had to take the transport. That night mom came home and as she opened the refrigerator found the keys there!

I am a starbucks coffee lover. Every day on my way to office, I stop by star bucks t have my favorite Cappuccino. Usually I look for covered parking, but one day I was in hurry and wanted to park my new car out side, but luckily I found a spot where I easily parked my car under covered parking and rushed inside. I had a cup of coffee and started to my office. By the time I came out, it started hailing and almost all the cars parked out side were dented severely. I waited till it was safe to move on and was happy to park under covered parking or else you know what would have happened.

We were moving from Arizona to New Jersey permanently. We moved all our stuff by movers and packers and look an evening flight. As it was holiday season we couldn’t get the direct flight to New Jersey. We took connecting flights and we had to change in between along with my 70 year aunt and 3 months baby. The first flight got delayed and by the time we reached the gate of the second flight they said that the boarding time was over and they closed the gates. But one of the airline staff helped us and we could board the flight and reached New Jersey on time.