Theju: “Excuse me… Excuse me”
The Man inside the house:(Slowly coming out) “Yes”
Theju: “Our Batminton Racket is on top of the tree… Can we take it” (his voice slowly went down towards the end of the sentence)
(I was standing next to him and could not hold my laughter)
Man: “What???”
Theju: (now a little louder and I think he was also laughing) “Our Batminton Racket is on top of that tree… Can we take it”
Man:(Puzzeled) “How did it get there?”
A few mins later we were laughing our brains out… This is what had happened before:
Theju, Asha, Vidya, Musavir and I went out to catch a game of badminton before the night set in. It was dark and for our luck we had only one shuttle, that too in a state which was depressing.
We played for like 30 min when one shot I hit went in the wrong direction and ended up on a tree. The tree was leaning out of the house and shuttle was well in sight. As usual to bring the shuttle down we first try to hit it with the racket in the hand… that normally does not work. Then we throw the racket to hit the shuttle (ironically its opposite to what we do normally ie hit the shuttle with the racket)… here we hope force will help the shuttle and gravity the racket to bring both down.
Today was our lucky day coz the third try landed Theju’s racket on the tree… the shuttle unfazed. The next racket was more lucky, it got the shuttle down but got itself lodged on a branch.
So thats where the first part comes in… we could get the racket down and went to take the permission of the people in the house.
The man’s tone was great… it was something like WTF were you doing to put a racket on the tree :))
Btw we got both rackets and the shuttle safely back… not to mention an incident we will remember for a really long time :)
(Published with the kind permission of Theju… This story was definately more his :) )