I hope you will enjoy this as much as I did this morning; I was nearly crying with laughter and it really set me up for the day – there is a delightfulness in the gullibility of youth that is lost with age and should really be cherished. A world where everything is as it is described, where the incredible really takes place everyday on a street near you. Maybe too much Pippy Longstocking – if there is such a thing!
I was walking to school with my daughters and one of them began telling me about a girl in her class who had sprained her ankle so badly that she had to spend the night in hospital and have a day off school.
“oh dear”, say I, “how did that happen?”
“she loves dogs and goes around picking up dogs and takes them all out for a walk. She had twenty dogs and one of them pulled her over and she sprained her ankle”
“twenty dogs?”
“yes, twenty dogs”
“what, all in one go?”
“yes, she really is dog mad”
At this point I think I am about to go into orbit and am struggling to keep my composure!
“Imagine for a minute what that would look like. One small girl and TWENTY dogs. Even if they were dashunds, that would be quite some sight!”
I carry on in this vein for a little while longer and then decide to let sleeping dogs lie (as they say), that is until I see the girl’s mother walking towards me.
I enquire after her daughters health and she looks at me as if I have just landed from Mars.
“she’s fine, I think”
“did she not twist her ankle?”
“not that I know of, maybe she did it in school. She never mentioned it, it was probably nothing much”
“Oh, glad to hear she is fine”.
Hilarious!!!
I hope your day has moments that are as funny.
love
Lucy
