Vagaries of life

This happened before nearly 60 years or so.A boy of 15 used to deliver newspapers to earn and support his family.SSc results were published in the newspapers then.This boy could see his own result much earlier than his classmates.He would see his own result and it was failure .He delivered the papers and the parents of the boys who had passed gave him pedhas .They never imagined that the newspaperboy was himself a student.This boy returned home carrying pedhas and the news of his failure .His father never got angry though this happened five or six times.