Time Machine

Press, 11 July 1989, Page 18

Time Machine

By

DARREN HAYWARD

_ Age 9 Rowley School Last night was Friday night. I was watching “Sledge Hammer.” Half way through part one a thing came flying at my face. It was like a rock. It was a bluey, greeny colour. It smelt like rotten eggs. There was a crack all the way around it. I tried to open it. It was hard to open with my fingers so I got a pencil. I looked inside, there were some words. I read them. They said, “This is a time machine. You can go back in time." I flicked the on/off switch on. Then I turned the year lever to 1960. I ended up in a paddock. I looked around. Most of the houses were gone. Rowley School had gone. I looked for Mum. I got a taxi. I just about fainted when I heard the price. It was 20 cents. I jumped in the cab. It was

a Lamborghini. The taxi driver asked me where I wanted to go. I told him to go to the “Black Tulip” on the Akaroa Highway. He dropped me off at the Black Tulip. I had to walk about a kilometre and a half to my Mum’s place. When I got to Mum’s place I hid in the top of a tree. It was by the back door. I saw Mum. She looked like she was only eight years old. Twelve years were to pass before my Mum and Dad met. They met at the races at Motukarara. I saw my Grandad’s horse. Its name was “The Ace.” That day he won. Grandad got $200,000,000. When Mum and Dad got married she got a diamond ring. The church they got married in was the Tai Tapu Church. When my Mum was pregnant she looked sick. The second time she was pregnant I got excited because I was going to see myself as a baby.