Poetic Justice

You have a nice lunch, full with your favorite items, no bhendi, no karela, none of the odd stuff, just good potato, slightly spicy, and nice small tinge of jam to complete the flavors…
Such an appetite, you relish, stuff yourself, and what follows a nice full tummy along with a slight warm One O Clock breeze, is an heavenly sleep.. slight problem lunch time ends at One O Clock and what follows a academic instruction session from One till One thirty,, commonly known as a lecture and innocently in school as a period… You are so dizzy that you do not care what subject it is, thankfully its rotation and by your stars have aligned to give you the last bench..
Population explosion dictates that you share the bench with two other inmates of the school, you don’t mind, because it’s nap time, and all you need a nice flat portion of the bench to rest your head and sleep, and you doze off..
but every perfect picture has a flaw, and there it is, the two knuckle heads next you start arguing, seriously after lunch there should be official peace time, but no, these knuckle heads argue, and they argue, and argue.. they do it bit loudly, it breaks your nap,, but that is least of your problems,, because as you open your eyes slowly..you hear a voice “Second row, last bench, stand up, come here”
as you are doing the long walk, what should I say “they two were fighting, not my fault”.. “I was just ..err.. sleeping”..oh..can’t use the sleep argument can I..so what should I say “they two were fighting, not me “..what was I doing..stopping the fight.. listening to the topic on board… ok now what’s written on board…there is stuff in Hindi, looks a Math equation there,, oh that surely is a Geography river..Oh God, where are the manners of cleaning the board after you are done…
you reach the front..”Maam, not me he..they”.. all three of you mutter the same thing, you look amused at the other two,,me!!! knuckleheads,,I WAS SLEEPING..stop pointing the finger at me…and then

Poetic Justice Cresecnt high school
SLAP
SLAP !   SLAP !   SLAP !
three loud bangs,, your left ear is ringing, your sleep is gone, and you are somewhat in trauma..the two next to you are have similar expressions on their face…”Now go back to your place and Pay ATTENTION !!”
now you actually deserved a punishment, not for the Talking, but for the sleeping, but you got the punishment for the talking, that you were not doing… you got punished for something you were caught doing but you did not do it, but you needed to be punished for something you did you, but you were not caught for that..
Fellows the appropriate phrase for such a thing is “POETIC JUSTICE”
 
 

Pyrrhic Victory

This is a short one,,,
this typically happens when you Top Score in your class in a particular subject… the only problems is that the Top Score of your class for that subject is 14 out of 25 !!!
nobody believes that you have the Top Score,, you yourself are ashamed to claim it as the Top Score, and it hurts when the Teacher waves your paper saying “This is the highest score in this paper …” and you know she is not saying it out of pride..
Such an instance is termed as a Pyrrhic Victory
 
 

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