A SEAT AT THE STADIUM
Once upon a time there was a boy name Isaac in a small town called "oyo." He was fifteen years old, he was foot ball fan. when
Isaac heard that there was going to be an exciting football match at the sport stadium in his town, he made up his mind that he would go and watch it.
All his friends, equally pleased, said that they would like to go too.
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On the morning of the long awaited day, the boys made their final arrangements for meeting at the stadium.
"We'll all meet at the gate at half past three !" They said.
But Isaac was not very happy about that. He thought that they would be far too late.
" I'm going to be earlier than that, " he said to them. "Why can't we make it two o'clock? "
But his friends only laughed at him, "what"
Two hours before the match begins?
Think of sitting on those hard seat all that time just waiting?
No, not for us, thank you!
" All right then", Isaac replied, "you all can come when you want to, and I'll be there waiting for you all !"
So, early that afternoon, Isaac made his way to the stadium, carrying a bottle of orange fruit juice with him. Hadn't really noticed the time when he left the house, but when he arrived at the stadium, he found, rather to his surprise, that its only one o'clock.
The man at the ticket office was surprised when Isaac ask him for the ticket so long before the match was due to begin.
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"It doesn't start till four o'clock he said.
"Oh, yes, I know that, but I don't mind, it will give me plenty of time to find a good seat and then I'll sit there and wait!" he said cheerfully " well, there are about a thousand seat to choose from", the man smiled,"so you can just take any one you like! "
and that's what Isaac did.
He chose a good seat with a clear view and then sat down and waited
Some few hours later
People start coming in, its seems they are coming form all part of the town.
At first there were only a few, then they came in a crowding in. There was a quite bit of argument and pushing for seat. some who had already chosen their places, decided that they wanted to move because they thought they would get a better view from some where else,
Then more people came pushing in and isaac thought of his friends and wondered how they will get in from the gate.
He kept looking toward the entrance to see if they were coming, but he was afraid that in such a crowd they wouldn't even be able to get near the gates
And in isaac's own words, "while people were running there, struggling for better place where they can get a better view. View of the park.
He was sitting comfortably and enjoying his bottle of orange juice which he had bought!"
"After the match he met his friends at home and they told him that they couldn't even got at the gate of the stadium because of the crowd.
He really felt sorry for them For missing an exciting game".
Of course Isaac gave them a piece of advice, which they hardly needed after the lesson they had already learned.
But he felt he had to remind them that it was always better to be two or three hours early than to leave things till the very last minute,
And they all agreed with him!
Moral lesson :- always try to keep to time because nobody can tell the dilemma that will be fall you, if you go to an event late.
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