Meaningless (standard:humor, 1407 words)
Author: Lincoln	Added: Jun 24 2003	Views/Reads: 3360/2144	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
It was completely meaningless. If you could understand anything, please let me know.

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van in the middle of the procession and shouting- 

“Here is your guy, here is Mr. Tiger” “Vote for Tiger, Vote for Tiger”
“He is strong, he is powerful, he is our guy, and he is Mr. Tiger”. 

The noise was huge; I was not sure what to do. The fox jumped out from
his hole and ran away. The young man with black sunglass, who was 
hiding behind a bush, just jumped in the river and swam across it as 
fast as he could. But the goat could not escape. 

The tiger gave a mighty run after the goat. The tiger stopped the goat
with its mighty claws and with a smiling face asked, “Would you please 
vote for me?” 

The goat was afraid to death but somehow managed to say, “Yes, yes, I
shall vote for you.” 

“Well, then I counted your vote. You need not to cast your vote”. The
tiger went straight back to lead the procession. 

The procession passed by me. I could see there were some goats and
donkeys in the middle of the procession. Some large dogs were guarding 
the procession from both sides as well as from the back. If anybody 
tried to leave the procession, the dogs stopped him or her immediately. 
So nobody could leave the procession. 

As I was looking at the passing by procession, some mice came running.
They seemed to be scared to death. A large red cat was running after 
them with a net in its hand.  The cat suddenly stopped by me. 

“Do you pay tax for watching the river?” asked the cat. 

“No”, I replied. 

“I shall propose tax on watching rivers in the next budget”, saying the
words, the cat took some note in a small dairy. Then it started running 
after the mice again. Shouting, “Stop, you miserable mice, you have to 
come under tax net”. 

“Isn't he innovative?” asked the young man with sunglasses from behind
the bush. 

I did not notice that he came back from the river. I asked him, “ Who
was it?” 

“The tax collector. It knows many ways to increase revenue earnings”,
replied the mysterious young man. 

I decided to walk a bit. I met a very tired looking rabbit on the way. A
stethoscope was hanging from his neck. It was carrying a sack full of 
money in its back. 

“No, no, no”, cried out the rabbit. “I cannot prescribe without test
reports”. Then it gave me a piece of paper and said, “See me next month 
with test reports of 1 to 54 from that list”. 

I was holding the piece of paper with astonishment. The paper contained
an amazing list of pathological tests and X-rays. 

“Wait a minute”, the rabbit shouted again. “New patient or old patient”,
it was pointing a finger towards me. 

“New”, I gassed. 

“Then, see me with the test results of 1 to 65 from that list”, the
rabbit started to walk away again. 

I was sick and tired of this place. I wanted to go away from here. A
taxicab was coming towards the road. I stopped the taxi and got on 
board. 

“Where do you want to go?” asked the driver. I replied, “To my home. But
I do not know the way”. 

The taxi started to move but it stopped within a minute. “Here you are”,
the driver said. 

Really, it was my home. I was in front of my home all the time. I gave a
note of 20 to the driver. But he refused to accept. He demanded 200. 

I was furious. The meter showed 20, why should I pay more! 

The driver wanted to give some reason. “It is not raining today!” or “My
taxi was the only one available at that moment, what if I refused you 
completely?” 

“Cheating is the name of the game and lawlessness is the trade”, said
that young man with sunglasses from behind the bush. 

I was no way going to give him more than 20. So I threw a note of 20 and
started to walk. 

The driver grabbed my hands and started shouting, “Wake up, wake up!” 

Suddenly the face of the driver started to change. It turned into the
face of Mr. Asif. He had sunglasses and a mustache. He was smiling at 
me, “Are you dreaming? How come you have fallen into deep sleep in such 
a short period of time? I have been trying to wake you up since 
returning from swimming!” 

So, I jumped onto my feet. I was actually dreaming. It was indeed a
horrible dream. 

Mr. Asif said, “Enough of the sight seeing for today. Let us go and have
some snacks. Then we shall go to see the dry dock before returning back 
to Dhaka.” 

We started back walking. I could see a large goat grassing in the field
and hear the bell ringing. A kid was also grassing with that black 
goat. 


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