Breaktime!

Who invented the game?? I don’t really recollect but it sure was plenty of fun! By lunch time our lunchboxes went empty. The only thing remaining was the silver foil. I remember that day. We were confined to our classroom as the rain was pelting outside. In groups we sat chatting and getting bored. Then the idea struck. So out came the many foils and began the war with the foil balls…There were no points to be scored, no goals to reach and only one rule, the game will be played within the class boundary.
Within moments silver balls of all shapes and sizes were flying around. We just had to hit anyone and also avoid getting hit. Simple.
Sometimes tired of running around we just sat on the giant windows. Still wanting to be a part of the game we would aim the shiny 'weapon' at an unsuspecting player and then phat!! The look on the confused guys face!Gawd! And we would sit there with straight faces while he would try to figure out who, afterall hit him. Well, no one ever suspected us for long as we were not the “naughty” kinds.
There was this one time when we made the guy with short curly hair, Hari(name changed to protect privacy) our target. For him the weapon had to be a little modified. Small round silver balls. But what's the point you may ask..he wont even feel it. Well, that was precisely what we wanted. Target area: his stiff curly head.Warning: launch weapon one at a time! Phat.. phat…and there those shiny tiny things stuck in his hair so gently. And Hari,so blissfully oblivious. To our joy he remained that way for the remaining break, busy trying to dodge the flying weapons, trying hard to get his aim. He, however,eventually became suspicious at our constant giggles and finally realized what had occured. We recovered about six of our 'weapons' from his hair!
Sometimes some memories just make you smile. In this case it made me giggle!