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Saturday 19 January 2013

Diary of the grumpy. (Episode 1)


Diary of the grumpy (Who’s the grumpiest of them all?)


"I'm sitting out my front porch taking in some fresh air along with the quiet afternoon-watching the sky take up different shapes, I wish we didn't grow so old so quickly, everything seem to move so fast leaving us behind even our ages are doing us no mercy, if only this young and energetic kids knew how much what they cared so much less about was in-fact the golden treasure people could never gain once lost, they wouldn't act so damn crazy, blind and stupid every damn time." He spits, stretches his old limbs and mumbles quietly to himself on his way into his home.

Henry sits out his open-front yard of his comfortable bungalow and mumbles quietly to himself and soon he starts to doze off into a dreamless sleep, latter he wouldn’t even be able to figure out how long he had been asleep because he had been startled from his good sleep by a loud bang, out of fear he fell off his seat and clutched at his chest because he thought he might be having a heart attack shortly, his fear had deafened him from hearing the laughter and chuckles of the kids gathered out on the street, they hadn’t even noticed him falling to the ground from his peaceful sleep, he slowly regained consciousness of the expressions on the kids’ face and relaxed. He got up hissing and pulled himself up, whatever had made that bang he didn’t know and didn’t care to know, angrily he decided to retire for the inside of his home, he walked slowly to his door, he thought of shouting at the kids to quiet down and go home or get lost but he knew he couldn’t shout so loud, he’s a grand Pa, an old grand pa with kids and grand kids who loved him as they’ve often said to him most times, he turned his door knob and got in halfway then decided to disperse the little crowd outside, he picked up the left foot of his old leather camel shoes then got a stick on note and scribbled a line on it, got it stuck to the heel and turn to face the street through his door way, he aimed real good for an old man as he threw the shoe straight into the young gathering and didn’t wait for the outcome or response but as he closed his door he heard a cry from probably one of  the kids and of course he ignored. He went straight into his kitchen and turned on his kettle with water in it to make himself some healthy green and mint tea, went for his mobile phone and called one of his kids “oh, hey son, how are  you? Yh! You know something? I’m gonna need me a new pair of camel shoes and I think I might need a lawyer too“.............to be continued.

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