Stories From The Head

The Skvako-hat Society ”Oh my God! Where on earth did I put my skvako-hat?" Normally Tussi didn’t care much about how he dressed, but the skvako-hat was, and had always been of great importance to him. The situation was made no less intense by the fact that tonight there was to be a meeting in the skvako-hat society, in which Tussi was a member. Tussi could easily have made a quick phone-call, telling the other members that he was unable to participate in tonight’s session, if it hadn’t been for the simple fact that no members of the skvako-hat society were allowed to own a telephone. (The reason was that since one of the criterions for being a member was that you had to have both your arms amputated, the God of Skvako thought it best to prohibit phones. That is, since the members of the skvako-hat society had no hands (Well, hands were ALLOWED, but none of the members of the skvako-hat society had yet found a satisfactory way to use their hands, without the rest of the arm in between. It is, of course, hard to remove your arms without removing your hands at the same time, but the God of Skvako nevertheless made a clear distinction about this: He wanted the members of the skvako-hat society to have choice when it came to the removal of their hands. As already discussed, it would be an extremely effort-taking task to remove your arms without removing your hands at the same time, and if you asked the God of Skvako, he would even admit that it was "impossible"...but THAT was not HIS problem...). Anyway, since they had no hands, usage of a phone would in most cases imply usage of your mouth to dial and to hold the phone. (Mouth usage was also forbidden in the skvako-hat society, so if the members were allowed to use their mouth to simply HOLD the phone, it would nevertheless be STRICTLY FORBIDDEN for them to SPEAK into it.) When Tussi discovered this fact, he understood that he hadn’t eaten since his birth. Tussi was found DEAD the next morning...WEARING THE SKVAKO-HAT...

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