Chunni lal babu’s old wall clockwas eating dust in an antique shopevery body was scared of itand yet every one wanted to own ithuman behaviour how oddSensational news travels faster than lightit does and it didat least regarding this clock some said the watch was cursedsome said it was Chunnilal babu’s spiritanyways, so the rumour was, that the clockwatches every thing the whole dayand right at midnight instead of the usual ding-dongsings out an important event of its choice 12 timesoften putting people in the dockwhy in the last house at the Raghav’sit’s said, at 12 in the night it sangMr Raghav is cheating on his wife 12 times straight that too with a background musicof course Mr Raghav laughed it offbut suspicion is a worm and it eats you insideso he ended up getting a divorce and lost his job tooHis Father in law was his bossand the clock came back to the shopthe shopkeeper didn’t look shocked or amusedand I was the only one who found it strangeand then before thatin Little kittypong’s house just at 12 it sang out loud kittypong is eating all the biscuitsand putting the blame on the poor doghow a dog could steal a keyopen an almirah and eat the biscuitswas puzzlingbut his parents did believe that!But after the incident Kittypong got punishmentand the dog licked the clockbut the clock was sent back cos it got the adults worriedwho doesn’t have some secrets, right?
this went on and caused a lot of heart burn and anxietyThe people of the town thoughtits better to burn down the clockevery one wanted the right to have an affairwith no fear of divorce or losing a joband kids just wanted the freedom to eat whatever and wheneverdogs were very sad and they howled in protestbut who listens to them and so the clock was burned downbut then the strangest thing happenedthere was a dust storm and the clock’s ashes flew with thatand went inside every one who didn’t cover up their noseoh what a disaster to start saying the truth and 12 every night 
last heard every one is divorced and jobless in the townKids are grounded 24/7 and dogs don’t look that happy eitherdamn the clockTruth- just when you don’t want it
