Those days he went down to his candy shop with a real hunger even though he was really bored with his selection he still went in and ordered the same old stuff. Even the old woman, Gertrude, who worked behind the register would say the same old thing. She´d say "Hello dear, didn´t come into the the sweetest shop in town by accident I trust."
Her greetings however were so repitive that the boys and girls who went there would awkwardly smile then turn their backs. The strangest thing however is sometimes she´d just start laughing for no good reason scaring the children out of the shop.
One day Tommy went down to his sweet shop, he quickly ordered his sweets from gertrude and got out of there. He went round the corner of the shop where he would eat his candy alone. It was shady there and the summer had just arrived there so he didn´t want any of his chocolate sweets melting. The wind would always act strangely there. kids at his school had commented that there was mini tornados there that were powerful enough to knock a person over. Tommy loved stuff like that and always ate his sweets round that shady corner just incase something happened but nothing ever did. Today however was different and when tommy was eating his candies he looked across the street to see a paper bag blowing around, it looked like a rocket ship as it went from the side of the road to the other side of the pavement, suddenly it changed direction and headed straight toward tommy. Tommy was excited and thought to himself wow, its like the bag is alive and coming over to meet me! The bag was moving quite quickly across the sunny street at head height toward tommy who was smiling one of those i wonder what will happen smiles.
The bag entered into the shade just metres from tommy´s face and accelerated quickly making tommy flinch. Just before Tommy had time to dodge, the bag veered off missing tommy´s head by an inch then it hit a wall, just as it went to the ground the wind picked it up again and sent it flying over the sweet shop and far off into the horizon as if it had been turbo propelled and could have gone much faster all along.
Tommy was totally surprised he knew for a fact his friends wouldn´t believe him but he felt kind of wild just from that experience. It wasn´t over though the wind picked up and started creating little whirlwinds round him nothing of force but the three whirlwinds seemed to be moving in unison round Tommy and that spooked him. For a moment Tommy thought about running home as the paper bag thing was already very wierd and he felt even more uneasy now these whirlwinds had formed metres from his legs and getting closer.
Like before the winds accelerated in his direction, in a second he dodged and ducked and never moved so fast in his eight year old life but the whirlwinds took him lifted him into the air and carried him a few metres up in a spinning motion Tommy closed his eyes. Ten seconds after he opened his eyes and he was back on the ground, this time he was shaking. He thought to himself wow the wind just picked me up and put me down without hurting me thats got to be a world record, or a miracle, or something worth writing in the history books. Just as that thought ran through his adrenaline soaked little mind an old man walked by. An old man that always walked by that corner on a saturday. Tommy shouted out to the old man. "Hey sir I was lifted into the air by the wind then it put me back safely on to the ground and I wasn´t hurt what do you think about that?"
The old man replied, "Listen you," "hmm" "Listen boy, eating too much sugar is really bad for your health you get it, my age we never got sweets unless we dried honey in the sun and then we had to fight the wasps for it!"
And tommy butted in "But sir it´s real the wind took me i´m not lying!!!"
The old man just shook his head saying "Used to be called mens comission service back then... ah... hmmmm uuuumm."
The boy just realised that noone would believe him, not even an old man who´d probably seen it all.
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