Nearly Lost Key- Chain Author: Dr. K. S. Kang

 

Nearly Lost Key-Chain

Author: Dr. K. S. Kang

That day as Arjun was returning with his wife Shaila, after attending a farewell party to an official who was going on transfer of course on promotion. As Arjun applied brakes to his car before his house a young boy on his blue bike came and tapped at the window of the car. As I opened it he handed over a key chain with a rubber drum attached to it. Though Arjun was suprised how this key came to him and how it dropped out of his car as the child claimed that it fell off the car and he picked it up while he was coming on his bright blue bicycle. The key in the chain appeared to be of some house. So Arjun took its snap from his mobile camera and put it on whatsapp to some of the people who were along with at the party lest some body may locate the owner of the key so that it can be returned. Soon Arjun got feedback that the key belonged to some lady who was living alone along with her two daughters near the venue of the adieu party. He went back to the venue of the party along with the key chain and soon as he stopped car a young girl of four years came shouting with a lady following pointing towards Arjun’s car and saying, “ that is the blue car where I put the key while playing”. I handed over the key to the lady- who was rightful owner of those keys which were of her house and she was waiting anxiously for them. After listening to that young girl Arjun came to know how those key came along with him in the car. That child while playing had placed it on the boot of his car and as Arjun was in hurry so he did not pay any attention that some object is lying on the boot of the car. So he took the car and moved on it for nearly four kilometres and the key chain, perhaps stuck on the boot of the car due to the vacuum created as it was made of rubber, did not fall during the whole distance but when Arjun turned the street leading to his house it fell off which was picked up by that bicycling young boy who was coming behind his car.

The incident did not end at it. The owner of the restaurant where party was organised instructed one of his employee to wait in the restaurant till the keys are handed over to the rightful owners that is that lady who was waiting in the restaurant. But since Arjun handed over keys to that lady without bothering to enter the restaurant again, so lady simply took the keys and marched off to her house with her two daughters without informing the employee who was instructed to wait there. So after a lot of wait this employee informed the owner of the restaurant that nobody had turned up to give back the key chain. Now owner was also worried so he contacted the lady on her cell phone and ordered his employee to leave the restaurant after getting the news that keys have reached the rightful owner and she was enjoying dinner along with her two daughters in her house. The credit goes to that alert young boy who took initiative of following Arjun’s car and handed over the key chain to him thus saving a house.