Nobody knew why that dog behaved in that way! If someone was found cycling, it attacked! That is how the paper boy was bitten badly in that morning! He was delivering the news paper to Amit's house which was on a side road, bit away from the main road.
As a result of that, the paper boy had to take countless injections around his nipple, in case the dog had rabies, which he considered as the most unfortunate incident in his whole life! He also had to stay home for a month to heal the wound completely!
After that incident, no news paper boys were ready to deliver paper to Amit's house!The dog belonged to Amit's neighbour, a policeman who was a dedicated alcoholic and who declined to cage the dog even after repeated similar incidents! From that day on, Amit who was around ten years old at that time, had to go to the main road to collect his news paper.
Appanky, the local youngster was shaving and shaping his moustache in his veranda which was facing the main road, when Amit reached there to collect his paper in that morning. The moustache had only started appear on Appanky, but he wanted to show it as fully developed and he used the carbon from the burned match sticks to highlight them too often! That day was very special for him because he had decided to go for a film show in the local theatre in that after noon.
"Amit, tell me both sides of my moustache are equal or not!"Appanky was obviously happy to see him as an observer while he shaped the sides with a half blade held on his hand.
Amit looked and found that the left was longer than the right! He informed his finding.
"How is it now?"
Appanky had shaved some from the left, but he actually had removed bit extra and it now looked shorter on that side!
"Now, it is shorter on the other side..!" Amit said.
"And now?" He removed again from the other side but leaving the opposite side longer..!
The same thing went on for a couple of times and finally, Appanky had to shave off his moustache completely!
Twenty years later, Amit, a doctor by then, had a house call in an early morning.
"What happened?"He asked his neighbour who came to call him.
"Our Appanky came from Gulf.."
"Oh..really..?"
"Yes, but now he is in a bad shape"
"Why?"
"He had put some dye on his beard to make it dark, just before his flight from the Gulf....but now he had developed some allergy when he reached home and can not show his face to anybody..!"
Amit went there and prescribed some anti allergic medications for him. They had a long chat and the moustache incident also came into their discussion!
Appanky did not go back to the Gulf afterwards.
He, later spent his life as an auto rikshaw driver.
On a Sunday morning, he was found hanged on a jack fruit tree.
Nobody knew why he did that!
Saturday, August 05, 2006
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