- to tide my adoring fans over until I feel up to posting properly (hi fan! =waves=), here is a funny snippet from a conversation held between Best Friend 1 and myself on the way to Just Play yesterday morning:
BEST FRIEND 1: (explaining) ...and they have a trampoline, too. It's brilliant; Squidgum loves it.
ALICE: (cheerfully) this is going to be such fun. I'll enjoy watching the two of you play.
BEST FRIEND 1: (scornfully) 'watch'?? You've got to be kidding! You come to Just Play, you don't 'watch'. You join in. Those are the rules. You can't just sit there doing nothing. You have to play, too.
ALICE: (raises eyebrows) oh no, nothing doing. I am not designed for climbing and I am certainly not dressed for it. In any case, YOU - if you recall - YOU are the one that decided to have a kid, Best Friend 1, not me. Therefore YOU get to 'play' with Squidgum and make an arse of yourself, while I, childless and fancy free; I get to watch. And laugh.
BEST FRIEND 1: (defeated sigh) fair enough.
ALICE: (evil grin) this is going to be such fun...
* ongoing saga. It's a feeling that crops up every now and again and takes over for a while; just a nice little reminder that even after nearly six years my damned broken heart is refusing to heal. Ancient history - or at least it should be - and a long, long, pitiful and pathetic story. Trust me. You don't want to know.
When referring to a story and someone says - "trust me, you don't want to know" . . . TRUST ME - that only makes us want to know MORE! :-)
ReplyDeleteP.S. - Every time you curse in a post it makes me laugh.
ReplyDeleteI curse too much, I'm afraid. I'm aware that it is a dreadful habit to have and can be dreadfully inappropriate and embarrassing in certain situations.
ReplyDeleteI'm trying in every day conversation - it upsets my mother particularly badly every time I do it - to fade it out and it's working to a point, but unfortunately it is also quite an addictive one; hard to stop. I'll keep trying, though.
I'll tell you the story one day, if you'd like, but really, truly, it isn't particularly interesting. Quite eye-rollingly boring and pathetic to outsiders, actually. It even bores me to death, and I'm as much as an insider as you can get.
xxx