Take One More Chance: A Satire By A Sixteen Year Old

Book excerpt: Naina Kashyap's to-do List: Change career. Next time the guy at McDonald's acts stupid--be polite. Don't get him arrested again. Stupidity is not a crime. Unfortunately. Change society's notion towards child labour. Dad wants me to get married. What the___? Also remember to change family. Some people always take the right decisions and some people take decisions and then make them right. Naina Kashyap was so sure that she fell in the second category. A sharp-tongued, career-oriented girl of today, she had an opinion about everything--from the local underprivileged children forced to work as labourers to her parents' if-I-am-Jesus-Christ-then-you-are-Paris-Hilton marriage. So when her father ordered her to find a decent groom for herself, she responded in the only way she knew how--rebellion. From crazy accidents in Delhi's streets to near drowning in kiddie pools, she rained her wrath on every man she came across. She thought that things could never get worse. Little did she know that the drama had only just begun.