A weird but true story

Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on  the darkest night-every storyteller knows she or he is also a teacher… —Patti  Davis

Every now and then someone comes up with some interesting fact or story which creates huge ripples in the world and shakes all the beliefs we have had so far.

This is not one of those I assure you and more over my job is not to create ripples,but to spread awareness or something like that.

This is a real story of some thing that transpired in one of the forestS somewhere in this world, which made lions take that historic decision of staying away from kids.

One  fine spring day little Pinkitootle Too wandered in forest and met a lion near a stream

both were shocked to see each other

kid thought hey I thought lions were only found in Zoo

and the lion thought- oh really news flash we don’t live in zoo and forests are our home

and the kid thought- what really

and the lion thought……

Oh sorry I was so lost in the telepathic conversation between the two that I completely forgot to tell you this is the story of those times when kids and animals could read each others thoughts

Anyways and then all of a sudden the Lion roared–he meant get lost

( how wonderful that every roar sounds same every time but has a different meaning)

Little Pinkitootle Too said whole of the forest can’t be your home

lion said yes it is

Little Pinkitootle Too sighed and said oh how I wish we too had lived by jungle rules..I would have lived in Mrs Hershel’s bakery and call it home

Laughed Lion which of course sounded like a roar

to which little Pinkitootle Too said why do you roar all the time?

don’t you get bored

or have a throat which is always sore

how do other animals understand what you mean

do you roar when you are angry or is it when you are too happy

lion almost fainted for he had never being asked so many question in a day

But being a lion he recovered fast and asked little Pinkitootle Too

do you always have so many questions to ask

do you ask more in day or in the afternoon or night

do you ask cos you want to know or do you ask just cos you are bored

do you start asking when you get up and does it end when you finally fall asleep

Little Pinkitootle Too was shocked, for today he met his match

Lion roared again( of course)

and said I could answer all your questions you know but they are top-secret

Oh boo said Pinkitootle Too,I know every thing about you

Roar said the Lion..this time it meant (really!! OK if you are able to answer some of my questions i will tell you every thing)

So began the quiz which went down in history as The Quiz

Lion: Why do zebras have stripes ?

Pinkitootle Too: cos they went overboard with tattoos and couldn’t wash it off

Lion: but why black and white?

Pinkilittle Too: because rainbow took all other colours

Lion: Why do giraffes have long neck ?

Pinkitootle Too: cos their best friends the monkeys stay on trees

Lion: Why do elephants have a long trunk ?

Pinkitootle Too: cos they love showers

Lion: Why do tortoise walk so slowly

Pinkitootle Too: cos if they run their shell will be left behind

Nope all the answers are wrong roared the Lion but you have some imagination and for that I would give you a royal Roar salute and a ride back home…..but never come back

Pinkitootle Too was tired too,so he agreed and got a free ride back home and a Roar salute.

Lion was so tired after one session with the kid that he gave a Roar salute to Pinkitootle Too’s mom who of course fainted and  so did the people hiding nearby

But by the time he came back Lion was too tired to hunt and had to sleep hungry that day.

There was an emergency meeting in animal kingdom next day where they all decided

its better to stay away from kids,they ask too many questions

and when Squirrel asked what about adults!

Zebra said hey adults are nothing but blown up version of these little curious cats.

To which cats objected and said we are not curious,how dare you and meow

A Monkey swinging on a tree nearby asked why do you cats always Purr, Roar or Meow

Cats didn’t like that joke and  they decided to stay away from monkeys too!

well that’s that.

I hope I have succeeded in creating some kind of awareness and those who are wondering -what awareness?

sit under an apple tree

it helps…

well it helped Newton!!!