THE MAGICAL REMOTE CONTROL

Once upon a time, there was a boy named Joy. Joy was a well-behaved child, and often displayed good manners, both in his home and school. He also completed his homework always on time. His teacher was so impressed with him; she made him the class monitor. Someone else was impressed too –
The Blue Fairy!!
The Blue Fairy decided to reward Joy with something special. That night, she came in Joy’s dreams and said, “Joy, I am very happy that you were made the monitor of your class. I am sure you will carry this responsibility properly. I will gift you a special, magical remote control today. It can be used on anything or anybody. I hope you will use this remote responsibly. Remember, you can use this thrice.”
When Joy woke up that morning, he found the magical remote control under his pillow. It had only 3 buttons: Rewind, FastForward and Pause. Joy wondered how he could use this remote control. While getting ready for his school, he started daydreaming about all the possibilities of using it on people and different things. Only when his Mom yelled at him, he realized that he had got late for his school bus.
“Oh no! I missed my bus. I can not be late to school on my first day as a class monitor!” exclaimed Joy. “What can I do!”. Suddenly he realized that he can use the magical remote control to call the bus back. So he pressed the ‘Rewind’ button for the bus, and the bus came reeling back to the bus stop. The bus driver was thoroughly confused, but Joy was able to board the bus and reach the school in time.
During the lunch break, Joy discovered that he had left his lunch box at home due to his lax and sluggish behavior in the morning. Soon Joy started feeling very hungry. “I better make sure to be attentive all the time from now on, specially in mornings.”, he thought. “I’m feeling so hungry now, I can’t wait till the school time is over.” And so, he pressed the FastForward Button to rapidly pass through all the periods, till the school time was finished. He was grateful to reach home quickly, and for all the food that Mom had cooked. Even the vegetables looked so tempting, he ate them all quickly. Mom was pleased with him for eating well.When the evening fell, Joy went to Sid’s house to show him the remote control. He also told Sid how he had to use two out of three chances because of his carelessness in the morning.
“Now we have only one chance left. We must use it to have some fun!” said Sid, as they went down to play with the other friends. While they were playing down, someone noticed a small baby crawling precariously near the main road. Before people around could react, the little baby crawled onto the road, right in middle of heavy traffic. “We must use the remote” shouted Sid, as he snatched the remote control from Joy and pressed the Pause button for Traffic. In a moment, all the cars and trucks and other vehicles on the road came to a standstill. The mother was able to pick the baby up to safety. When Sid pressed the same button again, the traffic started moving as usual.
“Isn’t it great that all the drivers were able to stop their vehicles in time” everybody said. Only two kids knew that they had made the best use of their gift.