The 1st assignment

The Man with the Pumpkin-Sized Head

The man with the mellow pumpkin-sized head gazed
into the mirror and felt a shiver running down his spine.
What did he see in the mirror? The mirror showed a man
with a gargantuan moustache, which it didn't show last
night, just before he went to bed. His moustache had grown
at least one metre during the night, and now it was almost
hitting his fingertips. It was black and twisted and the ends
of it was soaring towards the gargantuan moustache half
way. As a matter of fact, he was looking like a fashionable
gentleman. Taking one more look into the mirror, he didn't
believe, that he was the man with the gargantuan moustache.
He became so surprised, that he had to sit down for some
minutes on the sooty coloured sofa in the living-room just
to calm down, wondering how this could have happened.
He had never in hiw whole life been a man with a moustache
and now suddenly he had got one just after having one night's
sleep. The only reason for this crazy dream might be the
situation at home, having a wife in a constant state of
emancipation, who would be very proud having a man in
the house with such a gargantuan moustache.

For a moment, he thought maybe someone had enchanted
and transformed his mirror to be a magic mirror, so he
turned the mirror and had a look on its back, but he couldn't
discover anything faulty with the mirror. Now, he was really
frightened. What would happen next? Quickly he put on his
clothes and ran to his brother Gary's house and told him all
about what had happened to him, the entire story. At this
moment Gary thought, that his brother had been drinking
again, but he assured him, that this wasn't the case. No, he
assured him saying: "I'm quite sober." Gary said: "If you
don't want to keep this moustache for the rest of your life,
you have to see a doctor and ask him how on earth this could
have happened. Living in an anarchy, if you're lucky, he will
have an explanation to what's happened to you. Especially, as
you feel, that you rather not won't to have this gargantuan
moustach for ever, even if your dear wife admires you, when
looking like a real man from a far distant and very different
country, maybe some Indian looking person." In this situation
he felt he had to tell his dear wife: "I'm a protestant from England,
you know."

Gary's brother was lucky when getting an appointment the
following day at the medical centre. According to the appoint-
ment agreed on the other day, he visited the medical centre
and the doctor. The doctor knew him very well and was
surprised, when seeing him and his altered look. He hardly
recognized his patient, when he appeared with the gargantuan
moustache. The doctor said to him: "I haven't seen you for
about six months, but what on earth, how have you managed
to get such a gargantuan moustche? Have you been using
some fast growing elixir liquid in your face?" Now, the man
with the pumpkin-sized head told him the whole story. "I've
no idea, how on earth I've got this gargantuan moustache,
but it appeard during one night's sleep." Further, the doctor
asked him: "What did you do last night just before going to
bed?" The man answered: "Usually, I shave myself in the
evening to avoid having to do that in the morning, when I'm
in a hurry, and so I did last night. However, I remeber that
I got some soap in my eyes and took a bottle in the toilet
cupboard with the after shave bottle and lubricated the
liquid into my face." The doctor said: "Did you see, if you
relly took the right bottle?" "No, I didn't since I'd soap in
my eyes and kept them shut at the time." The doctor asked
him: "Does your wife have any bottles in the cupboard?"
"Yes", the man said, "she has got a bottle for removing
unwanted hair on her body." Rapidly the doctor had a look
into the medical catafalque. "Ah", the doctor said, there we've
an explanation, I think. You see, the fluid that you used is
made for female skin only, and when used on male skin it
has an opposite effect. So, if you just go home and shave
the gargantuan moustache away, this time not using your
wife's female fluid, you won't get the gargantuan moustache
back." "Thanks", the man said, "but still I insist, there was only
one sane person in the room, and it wasn't me."
Creative Writing, June 19, 2008, Nilla

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