Well as the scene goes, this amazing episode took place at our close friend Di’s apartment. Up in the quiet locality on the second floor, lived my close friend Di with her 4 roomies S, R & A. Usually a late sleeper Di kept S awake till like something like 4 in the morning (I cant remember the date though…me not remembering the date is surprising for myself too… coz I’ve heard it 11 times!).
Well back to the scene, the happy twosomes decide to hit the sack realizing the fact that if not now, then they might as well see sunrise soon. Just then our Di goes to the kitchen to get her last snack before sleep (Well she actually kept saying that she just went in for a glass of water…whatever). Here is the start of things that were going to shape up the coming hour in house. Di hears a small sweak and some movement around. Curious and spontaneous, Di comes to a conclusion that there is s a ghost in the house! A ghost and that too in the kitchen…must be equally hungry as Di herself. This restless ghost just made its presence felt by making some more creaking noises. Oh Oh we have company. Just then when before someone could move around, the Ghost appears on front of Di… Hold your breath, he is the hero of our story… yeah you guessed it right, “THE MOUSE”.
Description: A small, tinee-winee mouse which would be barely the size of a small Snickers bar, almost grayish in color and believe me from the description I heard it would not even harm a fly. Anyways, this tinee-winee thingy almost scared the hell out of Di and she came running to her room just to inform S what she just saw… the usual reaction,
S- “Are you sure it is a mouse, coz I don’t like jokes at this hour of the night…”
Di-“Yeah, I have seen it with my eyes” (as if we can see from somewhere else too)
S-“Ok what shall we do?”
Di-“Look we have to get it out of this place; I can’t sleep with this thing running around my bed!!!”
S-“Yeah but what do we do?”
This was the convincing time required to get S up from her position… Well finally she did get up… obviously thinking of some super trick to catch the “beast”. Both the brave ones made their way to the kitchen, where exactly the culprit was to be caught.
S-“Where did you see the thing?
Di-“Just below this closet”
S-“Are you sure?”
Di-“I have seen it with my eyes” (the same thing again)
S-“Now what?”
Di-“We need one more person to execute our plan to perfection…”
S-“So what do we do? And what exactly is your plan?”
Di-“We shall, by some means, try to get the mouse out of the kitchen and make him run out of the main door. That is our only escape!”
S-“How do we do that?”
Di-“Well, you do one thing try to get on the platform, and try to coax the mouse out of the closet, in the meanwhile I shall get the third person for help…”
S-“Ok…” (Nice plan if you ask me)
Well, well now how do we get the third person to do the rest?
Di-“Knock knock… wake up… wake up lazy bones… we have a big problem in our house…!!!”
Well here comes our third, not yet introduced, member of the house. Its R. R was peacefully sleeping with all the dreams of her… …whatever… Hurriedly Di tried to explain what the scene was till now…
R-“Cant you people solve your computer problems tomorrow morning!”
Di-“Whaaaaaaaattttt?????” (Yeah even I got confused)
R-“We will deal with your computer problems tomorrow morning, right now I am damn sleepy”
Di-“I am talking of a real mouse, alive and running around the kitchen, not the computer mouse”
R-“What are you doing at the 4 in the morning in the kitchen?”
Di-“Whatever…Right now this is not the question to ask” (Exactly my point)
R-“I am very sleepy” And then R puts one hand on the wall, and rests her head over it and acts just like Madhubala of the yesteryears… trying to prove her point… that yes she is very sleepy.
Di pulls her up to life, almost jolting her top to bottom with all she can.
R-“Ok tell me what am I supposed to do?”
Di-“Finally you believed me. Listen here is what I want you to do… stand at the main entrance and make sure that you close the door as soon as the mouse runs out of it. I shall lay a trap in such a way that it runs directly out of the house.Ok”
R-“Yeah whatever!”
Now Di heads back to the kitchen where S is on the platform trying to coax the mouse out of the closet. She was having a good time up there, trying to woo the mouse out the enclosure. Now seeing no progress, Di herself decides to climb up the platform and get the mouse out of the closet.
Di-“You make sure that the mouse runs out of the kitchen directly into the hall.”
S-“How do I?”
Di-“Your concern, at least get him out yaar!”
S-“Ok. I will try…”
Up on the platform Di is using all her imagination to woo out the mouse.
S is standing guard at the kitchen door.
R has fallen asleep on the main door.
Now what?
Well the mouse gets bored of the tricks by Di and finally decides to come out of the closet and just stroll around. Just as it pops out of the closet, S jumps into action.
What does she do… she starts howling at the top of her voice to make sure that the mouse gets really scared and runs in the direction as she shows. Well just to make a point, the mouse knows the house better than the tenants. Tenants come and go but it is his permanent residence first! So the directions shown by S would have hardly mattered. He knew where he was heading for. He also had enough, now he too wanted fresh air. So he decided to move out on his own.
Mighty mouse finally maneuvers his way out of the kitchen. Suddenly the howls start getting louder. Well it’s up to you to guess that whether these were for getting the mouse out or were out of the fear that he is approaching.
Anyways, out at the main door our guard was still fast asleep. Suddenly she sees S running around and jumps from her chair. Down there she notices a small tinee-winee creature has just jumped out of the door. She closes the door with all her might.
Pheew!!! Sigh of relief!!!
The hero of the story is gone!
Back in the house R runs to the kitchen to proclaim her victory.
R-“See I did the right thing, he ran directly out of the house”
S-“Well if I had not screamed so loudly then he would not have even moved a bit”
Di-“Whose plan was it by the way. And it was me who actually pulled him out of the closet”
R-“…”
S-“…”
Di-“…”
R-“…”
S-“…”
Di-“…”
Well this thing was gonna continue with everyone trying to take credit of the entire episode.
Well back there in the mouse community…
Mouse in the house to his fellas-“Well I had a great time today. You won’t believe it … I almost scared the hell out of three humans back there in the tower…Blah Blah…”
As narrated by Di (and interpreted by me!)
chintu, don't you think these warriors should be awarded with something like a param veer chakra or something(weeeeeeee). after all they succeeded in expelling The terrorist Mouse.
ReplyDeleteit could ve done so much of a harm to them you see. hehehe ;)
man!!! i was truly glad i slept thru the venture though i missed it!! but since then, these roomies havent been giving me peace by consistently reminding me tht "i dint wake up to the <-opportunity->" oops!!!
ReplyDelete@remya raj: haha... u 3 r charlie's angels or wat? then who's charlie? the mouse??? hyuk! hyuk!
Hey Chintu,
ReplyDeleteEventhough i have heard this story from Remya ,din feel bored....Really Enjoyed reading it.....Expecting many such blogs in future.