A Tale of a Coconut, a Device and a Body of water

Before I continue with this tale, let me introduce certain characters to you that are rather essential to the telling of said tale. There’s Grizzly, Polar, Tee and Kookie, these are the central characters in this tale. There are others. We’ll call them Zoner and Abby. Here goes…

It’s a sultry afternoon in the land of coconuts. Grizzly, Polar, Tee and Kookie are lounging by a body of water. Sipping on beverages, certainly not of the fruity kind. Tee is sitting outside with a smoking stick in his hand, whereas Grizzly, Polar and Kookie are in the body of water.Do note, there are four devices of the communication kind that are also lounging by the body of water on a dry bit of plastic, cozily under a coconut tree. Polar is splashing around, Grizzly is reaching out for her beverage and Kookie is, well, just being kookie. She was either floating or laughing. I can’t seem to remember.

Thud! Splash!

Grizzly and Tee are looking around, rather baffled. Kookie looks confused. Another note, she’s always confused. Polar is bipolar me thinks. For those who don’t know what that means, do look it up.

A few moments later, the four realize that a coconut has thudded on the dry bit of plastic and landed in the body of water. It’s floating rather nicely by the corner, without a care in the world. Little does it know that it’s going to travel miles because of this one episode.

Grizzly is out of the body of water in seconds to check on the devices. Polar has paddled towards the coconut to get it out of the body of water. Tee as mentioned, was already out. This leaves Kookie in the water.

Grizzly at this point checks on all devices and realizes her device is missing. Polar on hearing this, goes off on one of her manic bouts. She’s writhing in the water as if the Loch Ness Monster itself were out there to get her. Kookie is trying to calm Polar and Grizzly at the same time. Unsuccessfully. She tells Polar to shut it and Grizzly to not worry cause her device was larger and ‘bulkier’ than most and would most certainly be in the greenery.

At this point Zoner has emerged from the ‘hamam’ and is standing by the shade of a few trees about 50 meters away from the scene of the tale. Yet another note, Zoner is quite blind, she cannot see things that are further than a foot away from her. Zoner was drawn to Polar’s antics, which have raised quite a few eyebrows. Abby has also entered the scene. He is as confused as Zoner but decides to watch.

Where did I stop?
Oh yes, Tee and Grizzly searching for the bulky device in the greenery. This search continues for a good 10 minutes. Polar has calmed down and joined in the search. At this point, Kookie thinks to herself and then out loud, ‘What if the device has somehow landed in the body of water’. The minute she says this, Grizzly, Polar and Tee turn to look at her. She stands still in the body of water and looks down.

Oopsss…!

There it is. The device of the communication kind, staring up at them from its watery grave… Kookie decides to go for it, but she being short, can’t reach. Tee has jumped into the water, quite like one of them Baywatch lifeguards, and gets it out. Hands it over to Grizzly with a rather apologetic look on his face… Grizzly takes it and stares at it with a look of utter dismay on her face.

Abby and Zoner have reached the scene by then. Polar is going on and on about something but no one seems to be listening to her.
Yet another note, (maybe I should start numbering these) Polar has this habit of saying the most awkward things at the most awkward times.

Grizzly looks like she’s either going to cry or laugh. Tee, Kookie, Zoner and Abby are wondering how the device of the communication kind landed in the body of water.

Here’s what actually happened:The coconut landed on the devices which were lounging on the dry bit of plastic and fell in the body of water. The impact of the fall on the bit of plastic, somehow, ridiculously, caused the bulkiest device of the communication kind to fall, 10 feet, into the body of water.

A few beverages and ham sandwiches later, Grizzly could laugh about the tale. Polar finally shut up. Kookie, Tee, Abby and Zoner could not stop laughing and wondering ‘How’!

The End!

Please note: Nothing was harmed in the midst of this tale. The device of the communication kind was not harmed either. It survived and came back to life a few weeks later. The body of water did not become its watery grave. The coconut landed itself in quite a spot of trouble. It was taken away from its land to another, drier land.