An entry in my journal from 1st Jan, 2017
For New Years I went to Lahore to spend the day with my relatives. Also with all the shit going in my life I needed a break.
All us cousins were on the roof top enjoying the weather and the fresh air and clicking pictures.
All this helps pass the time for half an hour or so and then the average person gets bored and thinks of utilising the time somehow.
I don't know who came up with this idea but I swear it wasn't me😂
One of my cousin brothers brought old and used rough copies and notepads. We made paper balls out of those. They had a bonfire the night before so there was some coal and also the seeds of dates we'd just eaten. We were all armed well.
Plan was to throw things on every passing car and bike in the street below. But to our dismay we couldn't hit the target every time we threw but it still was fun. The balls always fell behind the car/bike and missed the vehicle. We littered the street. It was so fun.
There was this one time though we targeted a biker. He was of age 18-25. He was all dressed in black.
All of us attacked him. Imagine one biker and 8 kids throwing paper balls, coal and seeds on him. He wasn't hit, as usual. But he of all the victims noticed that he was attacked.
What he did, he reversed and turned back. All of sat down and hid. We were all like 'Oh SHIT!!!' There was a good chance we were gonna get busted for what we had been doing but we couldn't stop laughing. Nima had been laughing so hard she literally rolled on the floor laughing.
The biker stopped on our gate and rang the bell. All of the kids were laying low but I got up on my knees and saw what he was doing. He was standing outside the gate waiting for some elder to show up and was pretending he had rung the bell, I presume. All the others were like 'Get down! Get down!!'
I was like no I want to see what he does. After having pretended for 5 good minutes that he'd bust us out. He got on his bike and went away in the opposite direction from where he was going. As he was going he said something like 'I'll get back at you for this'
He was so furious but it was so fucking funny to me because he threatened us that he'd come back for us while he himself pretended to have rung the bell. I mean sure brother do come back 😂
Whenever I remember this day I end up laughing. I was laughing when I was typing this a year ago and I'm laughing again as i retype this for the story.
We kept attacking other people. We had attacked biker boys because we hate biker boys, couples on bikes and all the passing cars because no discrimination for the cars.
We usually missed our targets or most of the times the cars never stopped.
There was one car; a silver/gray City. We targeted it and it hit the car. That car stopped right then and there as soon as it was hit and the man inside came out to see. All of us hid down again.
He was shouting, 'Who is it? Who's throwing these things?'
The man living in the house next door who was watching us told the guy 'It's the girls in that house'
We all were laughing but it was not right I mean why did he say girls only, there were 4 boys too. Why didn't he mention the boys? We were a whole team, an army.
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After the tea, we had to head back home because I had a test the very next day. The other guests were also getting up to leave. We were all standing near the house gate doing the customary goodbyes.
Since all us kids were on the roof top doing our lil adventure, we hadn't greeted one uncle that happened to arrive later than his family. Still high on the fun I had on the roof top I greeted uncle in a very weird way.
'Good evening Uncle Happy Birthday! Oh I mean happy new year!'
I have no idea where that came out from. But everyone laughed so yeah it was a weird and embarrassing moment.
My Dad was setting up the things in the car while we were doing our goodbyes. Nima's Dad noticed the littered street and said, 'People have no shame no manners. Look at all the mess on the street, so many papers'
I bit my lip and looked at my cousins and we exchanged that look.
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Every time I remember that day I end up laughing so hard. It was the second best day of my life, which reminds me of the first best day which I'll be uploading next. :)
