That, my dear friends, is the sound of a bullet going through a window pane.
And who told me that?
Well… I have first hand information. Yesterday 9.03 pm we were shot at.
I kid you not!
And no, the shooting did not involve a camera.
It was a gun shot.
Seriously!
For proof, we have a hole in the kitchen’s window pane the size of a … umm… bullet AND we also have the remnants of the bullet.
Let me start from the beginning.
Almost twenty three years ago, on a cold morning … er… wrong beginning… Better start again.
It all happened last night. Ma was working her way through a huge tome of medical journal, papa was trying to understand the mysteries of Microsoft Word and I was studying… er… pretending to study… we suddenly hear SHTANGGG.
Ma almost immediately rushed outside to investigate the source of noise. I rushed after her to tell her she was rushing in the wrong direction. And papa decided it was more important to discover how to underline texts and did not stir.
Anyways, the police guards outside confirmed my mother’s suspicion that it was a gunshot fired very close but outside the ‘hallowed’ walls of our campus. And for last night that was that.
Next morning, that is to say today, about 7 am ma discovered the bullet hole in our kitchen window… Didn’t I tell you she was rushing in the wrong direction? Our kitchen is at the back of our house and ma was investigating way in front…
And to cut a long story short(er), I will give you the aftermaths.
I have, happily taken a hiatus from the kitchen.
Ma is regaling all who cares to listen … namely, herself… with her outrageous theories of how if a shot was fired outside the campus we have a bullet hole in our window when there are two huge concrete walls between…
Dear Ma, I know you think I m being outrageous but nothe shot was not fired outside the campus.
And papa after the initial excitement is now delighting in center aligning all the titles in his document!
And our maid, is keeping a strict eye so that no one makes away with the bullet splinter people are ‘admiring’ in curious awe.
As for our kitchen’s window pane, so far 21 people have paid it a visit. I counted! … I told you I have too much free time.
And in the other news, a tree frog has jumped into our water reservoir. Perhaps the poor frog was jilted!