I don’t know why I remember , back in 1st grade , my friend and I , had gone to the school playground. It was after class hours , the playground was pretty much empty . We had gone there to collect some Tamarind seeds .
“TAMARIND SEEDS” , you might wonder what is wrong with these kids , when everyone goes home they go to collect tamarind seeds , bunch of fools , you’d call us . But at that time even we didn’t know why we were collecting them , we were probably just fascinated by it and had collected so many of them , that we couldn’t stop , until this one day .
We were so into searching for it and filling our pockets with it , that we completely lost track of time and forgot that our parents might actually be looking for us at that point of time . Luckily one of the staff members was passing by the field and spotted us and reported us to the principal , where our class teacher was standing with our parents . We were shocked and started trembling with fear , we knew we had crossed the line and it was doomsday for us . As we were slowly approaching them , our minds started wandering , searching , trying to come up with some or the other excuse to get our asses saved .
Our principal , a beautiful , old , strict nun (since we studied in a convent school) , stood in front of us , we were so scared , we didn’t even lift our heads up to look at her . With our uniform covered with mud and dust stood there , shaking , still trying to come up with some excuse , finally mustered the courage to slowly look at her , but as soon as we did that , we made eye contact and our heads dropped again .
Our class teacher , started yelling at us and lecturing us , basically showing how mad she was at us . Our heads were still down at this moment , right then , I thought of taking a look at my father and sister who were standing there and watching the whole drama , they were trying to contain their laughter , imagine this situation , who wouldn’t laugh it off , simply unnecessary drama .
Our principal was about to say something , just when my friend dropped on his knees and cried out “PARDON ME SISTER , We’re really sorry and this won’t ever happen again” , I really liked how he spoke on behalf of both of us , okay pause , put yourself in my position and play this situation again . I was like WTF , my face started turning red cause I couldn’t contain my laughter , I was like shit dude , that’s the best way of getting out of any situation . Even the principal was taken aback by this and burst out laughing and the class teacher too along with my dad and sister as well , I couldn’t hold my laughter in any longer and burst out laughing and apologised to which the Principal and class teacher made us promise that we wouldn’t do anything like that and even if we were going to , we should at least inform someone about it .
After that one day , we went home and with difficulty disposed our collection of seeds and never collected them again .
- Nikhil Pires