The Slunky Doodle winner

It’s time to find out who is the winner of the Slunky Doodle Contest?

The results of the Slunky Doodle Contest would be announced in a few minutes. The Slunky Doodle Crown was a prize for doing something silly in the school academic year. I was eager to know who would wear it today.

Andy, one of the Slunky Doodle Committee members, stood on the stage. He had won the crown in first grade, the only candidate to do so. On his first day at school, he had run out of the toilet wearing his shorts backwards, as a lizard clucking inside the bathroom had scared him.

Aria, another committee member, waved from the stage, holding the crown in one hand. One day she had been ambling down the corridor chatting with her friend and eating her chapati wrap without noticing that she was dropping the stuffing from her wrap, like a food trail. That year, the crown was hers.

Rohit, the third committee member, had accidentally glued the first finger of his right hand to his pencil in second grade. Rumour went that the fear of poking himself in the eye while eating had made Rohit put a pirate patch on his right eye. The school nurse who had been on leave for half a day finally removed the pencil from Rohit’s finger in the evening.

“Welcome to the Slunky Doodle Celebrations,” Andy smiled. “Congratulations to all of you, it requires courage to laugh at yourself, to celebrate your silliness. Let me announce the shortlisted candidates.”

“Vivaan.” The fifth-grade boy strolled towards the stage amid thunderous applause. During lunch, he had gobbled up the banana in his lunch box in two gigantic bites. Chucking the peel in front of him, he had absent-mindedly walked over it and slipped.

“Binny.” Binny walked up. He had accidentally locked himself in the boy’s bathroom on the seventh floor on a day when he had a sore throat. Unable to open the door, he broke the window pane with his shoe and crawled out through the narrow opening, trying to attract the attention of the school staff on the ground floor. He was noticed only after 40 minutes, when he threw his shoes at a visitor.