Swrinkles History

The swrinklonian citizens believed in palm reading and they also had a secret way to know that something was wrong. This is one of Swrinkles’ darkest secrets and shouldn’t be passed on to someone who’s heart isn’t pure good, but I believe that you are ready to be pronounced an official Swrinklonian. Without further ado, I shall tell you the secret- the Swrinklonian knew for sure that something was not the way it was supposed to be by only looking at their finger nails…if they hadn’t grown at all from the day before, then something or someone either needs help or has a problem that shall be solved by whoever’s finger nails are the shortest.

The Swrinklonian prime minister would call in a council meeting in every town on the 15th of September and then again on the 16th to compare their finger nails. In each town there would be the job of the nail watcher, who would measure every person's finger nails. Save for one town,the capital. At this town the prime minister, at the time Para O’cetamol, would come down there and do the honors of palm reading. She/he would palm read everyone's hands on the 15th to predict if on the next day the person’s fingernails would grow or not. People always wanted to know if they were to not grow as they thought they should be prepared for all the helping and saving they were supposedly about to do. However, they only did palm reading in the capital city and there was the small amount of 120 people who actually could afford to buy/rent an apartment at the time. So… people began to do a business which is very popular nowadays- house exchanging!

Although a little bit different, as today if you were to do a house exchange you would have to pay the same rent as the other person moving into your house might have, but they didn't want to pay all that money so they started to make deals. These deals involved switching houses but paying an appropriate amount of rent. Let's say two people, Ben and Fred, wanted to do that. Ben is getting a little elderly but still has a six bedroom house which is getting hard for him to clean so he wants to downsize. Fred has a big family but is currently living in a 2 bedroom flat. So Fred will pay Ben every month the same amount he used to pay at the flat and Ben will pay the same amount he used to in the capital city to Fred. That is how the whole thing of house exchanging began.