For the Lucky Who Own a Drook!

For the Lucky Who Own a Drook!

The Drook

(Shortened version of my light article published in The Times of India of August 5, 1962)

In the West, they say, not a day passes without its quota of inventions designed to make life happier for everyone - especially the manufacturers and lawyers engaged in associated lawsuits. Some of these arrive here to make our life happier....and, simultaneously too, their repair companies. These are the people who make me uneasy. Avoid them with some of that grand do-it-yourself spirit which is so widespread in the United States.
Now if you are one of those lucky people (like me) who own a drook here's how you can confound the repair men. Invest in some books on drooks. In particular Psychology and the Drook will help you in those tense moments when your one great desire is to kick your drook squarely in the procket. Keep a large-sized repair kit ready, especially spanners and a heavy hammer.
When your drook makes a gurgling sound and stops working, use the spanners to tighten the nuts. If that doesn't work tap the nuts with the spanners. Go on...with increasing force and frenzy. If in that process your drook roars into action thank your lucky stars. If that doesn't work sweat it out and hit the nuts with bigger and bigger spanners. And, finally, try a few injudicious swipes with your heavy hammer.
If even that fails you have only one option to avoid the repair-men. Call in the breakdown people and haul your drook to the nearest cliff. And push...so that  it hurtles down. At the cliff's bottom you will salvage enough metal to make yourself a nice little wad of currency. Aren't you lucky?
Then with a little assistance from the bank balance you can buy yourself a new drook, maybe a smaller one. Oh, what a wonderful reward for your labors!    

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