I did something bad this morning.
But I started off by doing something good. Then, within seconds, I made it bad.
I'm an idiot.
Here's what happened...
I was dropping the youngest off at nursery and I noticed an older kid, whom I knew, had a new matching hat, scarf and glove set.
Our kids only seem to have completely un-matching hat, scarf and glove un-sets so I found this pleasing.
So I said to her "I like your hat, scarf and gloves."
She's a nice little girl so she politely thanked me.
I should, of course, have left it there but a joke struck me and I decided to try it out on this six year old.
"Actually", I said, "I like the hat and scarf but I only like one of the gloves".
I pointed to her left glove with a crooked finger and added, "I don't like that one".
They were all exactly the same, a lovely sort of pink tartan effect. It was preposterous that I would have taken agin the left glove.
She looked at me and then burst out crying. Before I could explain the joke she was off in search off her Dad.
The whole set was exactly the same. You see?
2 comments:
I'm looking forward to the bit when her dad comes back...
Well Bob, funnily enough, and thanks for the comment, I'd already had a pop at her old man for supporting Man U (an English team) against Celtic (an Irish team) and I think I'd made him cry as well.
At last count the nursery had received 28,000 complaints.
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