Monday, May 31, 2010

Heaving Books

It was a stuffy and dark room. The air was filled with dust. Silverfishes scurried away, hiding in darker , more secluded nooks and crannies as I lifted the books off my shelves. I gazed longingly out of my little dirty window, out into the beautiful garden where the birds were chirping away happily. Oh how I wished I was out there, not in my room heaving books into tiny boxes which just wouldn't fit the books!

Just then I heard the door open. My head whipped around to see my older brother, Jack, walk in. He saw the boxes and said, " Why pack the books into such small and inconvenient boxes when packing them in big boxes would be so much faster? " I immediately did exactly what Jack suggested without even thinking it through. I thought it was a marvellous idea.

However, when I finished packing, I realised that the boxes that Jack had recommended would not fit through the doorway after being assembled. I decided that Jack would know how to solve the problem. So, I set off to find him. I soon found Jack in his room with the same problem as I.

After hours of discussing, we concluded that the best method was to tilt the gigantic boxes sideways and slowly lift them out. We chose this method mostly because it was the only idea that did not involve smashing, hammering, knocking down walls and other such destructive actions. However, we overlooked one very important flaw. When we did what we had decided to do, everything went according to plan until the books tumbled out on to me! It was extremely painful and left me with thousands of blue-black bruises.

So, the moral of the story is " Never listen to your pesky older brother ".

13 comments:

  1. Well done Little Boy! This is a nice compo. I spot one error though!

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  2. I like the moral of your story. Older doesn't necessarily mean wiser in this case!

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  3. Yeah.. nor what your older sister says.. :p But then you really do have an older sister so I really shouldn't say that! You write as if you are much older than you are... Nice story!

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  4. You are quite right. Your idea of using smaller boxes was better. I think you're such a great writer! Keep writing. We would love to hear more of your stories.

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  6. You've got a very nice style ^^

    I like your story - reminds me of when I was moving house. I'd used the huge boxes instead of the mid-sized ones, and in the end, they were too heavy to be moved around. Eventually, I had to repack...

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  7. Aunty Blur Ting - Thanks for the compliments!

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  8. Aunty Wen-Ai - You are right. My sister is older than me but in some ways, I am wiser. Heh! Heh! Heh! :-)

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  9. Aunty OKC - Thank you for the compliment!

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  10. Aunty Daelight - Wow! That must have been a lot of work!

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  11. Nice story! Looking forward for more stories from you!

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  13. Aunty Malar - Thanks for the ecouragement. I am working on my next compo.

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