"Auntie's coming!"
Yes Auntie me was coming to visit her very favourite nieces and nephews who technically are not even related to me but that's just reality intruding. We are family!
I had this brilliant and cunning plan.
a) Get the dentistry done.
b) Take a holiday week.
c) Visit the "fam"
d) Be very smug about the superior intellect that conceived such a grande plan
I accomplished a, & b, and we are stuck there.
I called my dear niece to let her know traveling was out of the question.
Her 7 year old son answered. We had a nice 5 sentence long conversation.
I concluded with: "Can you understand me?"
"Yes."
I had my daughter call back when she arrived home.
She explained to the same lad that Auntie cannot come.
A few hours later my telephone rang.
"Auntie?"
"yes?"
---- long gasp and pause -----
"WOW Auntie! Oh my GOODNESS!"
I asked her if her son mentioned I called.
"He told me your daughter called and then said:
"Oh Mommy some weird lady called for you. I think she was Chinese."
hah!
God Bless the young. They tell the truth!
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There arises from a bad and inapt formation of words, a wonderful obstruction to the mind.
- Francis Bacon
