A Town Called Boring Kid’s story

A Town Called Boring Kid’s story

Once upon a time in India , there was a town called Boring . It was by the side of Dull Lake .

The residents of Boring never smiled .

They did not know how to grownups , and even the children , never , ever smiled .

All the children ever did was go to school and after school ended for the day , they do their homework and prepare for class tests . If ever the children met each other in the evenings , they did not play .

They also lied to each other about which chapters were important and which were not for the coming test .

All they wanted was marks , marks and more marks .

They did not know how to smile , they did not know how to joke and they did not know how to giggle and laugh .

Life was really dull and boring .

One day , the town had a visitor : an old grandma with silvery hair and a smile .

Her smile reached up to her eyes , She had come to visit her granddaughter , Ekta , for the first time .

At the end of her first day in the town , she understood that something was wrong – terribly , terribly wrong .

When she smiled and nodded , no one smiled back at her , not even Ekta , her own granddaughter !

When Grandma smiled and said she had made Ekta’s favorite ‘ gajar ka halwa ‘ for her , what did Ekta do ?

She just said : ” The history teacher cut three marks in one answer .

God knows how many marks she has cut over the years .

By now she must have a treasure chest full of marks .

I wonder what she will do with them .

Maybe I should steal her trunk some day then the marks will be mine .

” She did not eat the ‘ gajar ka halwa ‘ . Grandma was amazed .

How could anyone talk at such length about marks and tests and nothing else ?

But she heard this day after day and not only from Ekta , but from all her friends as well .

And – if that wasn’t bad enough – from all the parents too !

These parents were always pushing their children to get more marks .

Just as people in other places go to temples to pray , the parents went religiously to a shop called The Marks Bazaar , which kept a range of pens with which one could write secret messages .

The parents would buy these pens for their children , who would then scribble answers on their thighs .

It was called preparation for exams .

What the parents did not know was that the shopkeeper secretly stocked infra – red detectors that could make out any secret message on any surface .

The children ended up getting caught , and their parents were that person get tickled and laugh , the tickle would travel by touch from person to person . Grandma decided to use the cream on Ekta .

Next morning , as Ekta got ready for school , Grandma gave her a glass of milk .

As she did so , she touched Ekta under her chin .

Something happened . It was like an electric shock .

Ekta giggled . She looked shocked at this strange sound that came out of her throat !

Then she went to the mirror and looked at her reflection .

And she giggled . Grandma was satisfied !

By afternoon , all the children at the school were giggling .