SODA BOTTLE SENTIMENT: PART 2

• M1: (Continues with renewed vigour) I ask them. Will they feed the families of our great workers? What other material can we use? Bricks?
• M2: Bricks are costly brother (and quotes the latest price).
• M1: And are bricks as effective as bottles?
• M2: According to my personal experience, bottles are matchless, like gold.
• M1: I remember once you threw a bottle at my head.
• M2: But you caught it expertly and threw it back at me and broke my head.
• M1: See. you can always catch it and throw it back. Reuse value. Which is not there in bricks.
• M2: Correct.
• M1. Past is past brother. Now I ask them. Have they fought with us in the streets, have they torn each others 'waistis', threw punches, abused each other in unprintable vocabulary in our very ancient language? Then what right do they have to ban bottles.
• M2. Bottles are freely available. We can always borrow them from our shopkeepers who won't mind losing them for the sake of our esteemed party, yours or mine.
• M3. I suspect this sudden friendship between you two.
• M1. We are like brothers, fighting is our birth right. Right from birth we fight.
• M2. M3 always suspects everything. if everybody is happy, M3 is not.
• M3. I see it as friendship between wolves and foxes.
• M1. Why not flowers and strings?
• M4. M3 is always jealous. M1 and M2 please go on.
• M1. Also children make 'maanjha' for strings to fly kites. For this they need glass pieces. Will not children be deprived of their pleasure if they ban bottles.
• M2. Well said. Even I would have forgotten this point.
• M1. Now it is bottle, next it will be cycle chain, what do they think of themselves?
• M1. There are film songs about soda bottle:
• (Starts singing)
  "Vethala potta shokkula
  naan gapunnu kuthunna mookula
  ada vandhudhu paaru ratham
  indha amaran manasu sutham
  vaaravadhi erakkam amaran
  vandhu ninna sarakkum
  amaran pera sonna thaane
  SODA BOTTLE parakkum"

(Widespread whistles and catcalls)

• M2: "SODA BOTTLE kaiyila cycle chainu paiyila
  dhoda varan paaruda aarumugam
  vaada vaada maapuLLa podaindhiruvaen gappula
  meiyaalumae enakku noorumogam"
  
• At this juncture, all of them start dancing and hugging each other. Finding it unbearable our journalist source leaked out like soda out of a broken bottle, plugging our narrative.
  

THE END