“Ma, come here! Come here immediately” shouted my son Abhinandhan.. I could feel the excitement in his voice.. I rushed to the hall to check the reason for his excitement.. A kangaroo was standing next to him.. I immediately pulled him close to me.
The Kangaroo smiled at me and told “Hey I am also a mom, I can understand your feelings. I won’t harm your son..” I told “What!!! What are you doing here? How do you even talk?” Kangaroo replied “Not just me, you have few more vistors” and whistled..
I felt as though I was watching Discovery Channel.. Kangaroo’s family, 3 lions, 5 tigers, 20 snakes, 10 deer, 15 wolves, 12 foxes etc entered our house. I took 10 steps back keeping my son at my back..
Kangaroo assured me “We would never harm you if you let us stay here. You all have spoiled our home, now we have nowhere else to go. To your question as to how I know to speak – We are attending online classes for the past 6 years. Then came this sudden downpour of rain and we lost many of our friends in the flood and managed to reach your high rise apartment. As of now we feel this is the safest place to live, so we have decided to stay here forever. You need to take care of us”
One of the foxes opened my fridge and asked me “Don’t you have Coke or Pepsi?”. I replied “I don’t have Coke and Pepsi. But why do you need all these?” The fox ignored my question and checked the pizza corner’s number in his mobile”. He exuberantly announced “Guys let us order pizza. Write down your choice and I will order for you guys. Also mention if you need choco lava cake”.
One of the lions roared and told “We are feeling tired. Switch on the AC, we need to sleep after eating our pizza. Hey Henry don’t forget to order Coke or Pepsi in your pizza list. Look at these morons, they don’t even have Coke with them. Why do they even live in this world!” My jaws dropped on hearing all these.
My son suddenly spoke “Henry could you please order panner pizza for me too. My mom never allows me to have pizza.” Henry replied “Sure do want choco lava cake as well. However your mom is only going to pay for these. Will you pay by cash / online banking mam?” I stood still not understanding whether to scold my son or react to the atrocities done by the animals..
Before I could react, I got the next shock of my life. “Switch on the TV. Do you have Amazon prime in your TV? Play the latest thriller movie. Do you have only one sofa. We can’t sit on the ground for a long time as we have knee pain. Order for few more sofas in Amazon. Also get us boiled RO water as water has got contaminated”. I could not tolerate this anymore. Animals not able to sit down, asking for boiled water and watching TV.
Oh my God what have we done to them. What has happened to our environment. We spoiled our lives, now their lives. “Stop all these nonsense, I can’t entertain all these. Go back to your forest or jungle. This is not the place for you guys”.
All the animals shouted together “We are going to rule this place hereafter. If you want, you go and stay in the forests that you have destroyed. We are not going anywhere else.”
The doorbell rang. It was the Pizza delivery boys. They seemed very happy as they were able to reach their target in this single order. They had a very big box in their hands. “Ma’am could you please give the bill amount – Rs.59999”. I was about to faint, when people from the zoo arrived and took the animals from my home.. The zoo official told “Sorry for the trouble and confusion caused Ma’am. We saw these animals in the news and rushed to your apartment. It took time to search and find out that they are here..”
Do you think this is just fantasy. Rethink! Our stupidity and greed is causing irreparable damage to our environment and other living organisms. Let’s wake up to the situation and save the environment before it’s toooo late..
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