The Room.

The room was strange not because it was old but it was different in almost every sense one could feel it. It was a small room with walls painted in pink with two beds resting on two sides of the room , one meant for the patient and the other for the visitor.The old man ,who got admitted in the room the day before pulled a chair and sat saying to a small girl who came to see him " do you see the T.V there? Go switch it on.". The girl touched the power button expecting her hair to be blackened like soot on being electrified. She waited but nothing happened,neither to her nor to the screen.The old man said " do you see a thin wire like thing inside the set, just touch it once and your box will start off". She did as said and the faces behind the screen came alive with voices of their own. He continued to talk about the room with the knowledge of an expert who designed each and every furniture belonging to that room in which he had been staying from just one day and would leave in yet another. He continued " Do you see the ac there? It must be more older than you. To switch it on, you need to push the red button over there on the stabiliser. Quite different from what you do at home. Are you trying to decrease volume of the channel? No no,you can't do that.It keeps increasing no matter you press the left or the right button . .Then how do you get a proper volume ? just switch it off and on it after some time. This idiot box is suffering from a memory loss. It will retain its old volume once it comes to life again . Same is the case with the channels. You want to get back to a channel, you have to navigate through the 100 odd channels again to come back to it. I didn't dare to surf a channel and kept staring on those advertisements which have ceased to convey the message they meant to ".The girl went out of the room and came back to see the snail pace with which the door closed . She tried to push it to give it a momentum but she was not surprised to see no change in its pace as if the door was saying " your little hands or the strength of a rock can do nothing to me ".The actors in the movie had taken a backstage and the millions and billions of white and black dots took a front seat. The girl looked at him with a quizzical smile and switched off the T.V . He said " Some component of the TV gets heated up if its on for a long time.So you have to wait till it gets cooled off .You can see them properly after five minutes .Let the actors and TV rest for some time.".She surveyed the room and found two more doors. She thought she would learn about the facts associated with them later .She suddenly remembered the home work she had to do at home and left the room The old man switched on the T.V and waited for the door to close.