It was her 10th birthday. Her parents had arranged for a nice Birthday Party. The event witnessed a fair amount of guests. The girl was extremely pleased by this fact, as her greedy eyes wandered to the constantly mounting pile of gifts. However, one particular red box caught her attention. It was neatly packed with an attractive red wrapper. Her expectations rose like the mercury in Mercury.
Her imagination began to run wild, like the wild boars of India. She imagined that the box contained a huge key that would show her the door to conquer the world. Or would it contain a box of Dark Chocolates that would grant her immortality? A comic book that would automatically transfer the knowledge that the world possessed? A hair dryer that would make her IQ multiply manifold? She was beginning to get restless... Her curiosity to know what she was in possession of, rose like the mercury in the Sun. Now the wild boar had transformed into a wild, mad elephant.
The guests started to take leave in a couple of hours. Her excitement was rising (now, like the mercury in Betelguese). She felt she was getting closer to her conquest or immortality or knowledge or intelligence or whatever divine thing that box contained... It seemed like an Indiana Jones movie. It had become a quest to seek the answers to all her expectations.
Finally, her parents gave her the green signal to open the gifts. She ran towards the red box, grabbed it and tore open the red wrapper and cardboard box... Her heart was pounding wildly (like the elephant) and she thought others could hear it too. Suddenly, it seemed like the world had come to a standstill. The excitement had now taken the form of raw shock. She realised, that she was now, the owner of a pair of gray, oversized bermudas.
The benefactor of those bermudas clearly, had expected the girl to have 'grown up'. Hence the oversizedness
Her imagination began to run wild, like the wild boars of India. She imagined that the box contained a huge key that would show her the door to conquer the world. Or would it contain a box of Dark Chocolates that would grant her immortality? A comic book that would automatically transfer the knowledge that the world possessed? A hair dryer that would make her IQ multiply manifold? She was beginning to get restless... Her curiosity to know what she was in possession of, rose like the mercury in the Sun. Now the wild boar had transformed into a wild, mad elephant.
The guests started to take leave in a couple of hours. Her excitement was rising (now, like the mercury in Betelguese). She felt she was getting closer to her conquest or immortality or knowledge or intelligence or whatever divine thing that box contained... It seemed like an Indiana Jones movie. It had become a quest to seek the answers to all her expectations.
Finally, her parents gave her the green signal to open the gifts. She ran towards the red box, grabbed it and tore open the red wrapper and cardboard box... Her heart was pounding wildly (like the elephant) and she thought others could hear it too. Suddenly, it seemed like the world had come to a standstill. The excitement had now taken the form of raw shock. She realised, that she was now, the owner of a pair of gray, oversized bermudas.
The benefactor of those bermudas clearly, had expected the girl to have 'grown up'. Hence the oversizedness
8 comments:
Nice similes. Although the anticlimax was slightly expected.
Kaushik
Hello Uttara
You are a very nice girl. But you are too small. Drink Horlicks. It is nice. Then those bermudas will fit you and you will look more cutely and byuteful.
so... do they fit u now, atleast??? anyways, nice story... :)
u never grow up do you? [i'm not talking about just the physical aspect :)]
nice story newayzz,highly exaggerated though!
What do I say .. people have already said but still.. like the comparisons.... and ya am sure they still don't fit you.. doubt whether you have grown much since then. you should have had Complan as a kid.. possibly it would have helped!!!!!
:P
Gray is a very okayish colour. Fluorescent orange would have suited you better. :P
@ felicity
Agree with you wholeheartedly ... Bright fluorescent orange with stripes of green.. Very Munky.. very very Munky
betelgeuse? bondu will be proud!!
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