When I turned ten, my parents asked me to the living room for a family meeting. I thought they had found out it was me who covered the boy's room ceiling at school with hundreds of wet wads of paper towels. Thrown forcefully underhand, they stick with a satisfying "thwack" and surprising longevity. "Longevity" is a word I inadvertently learned from my Word a Day calendar. So was "inadvertently". I didn't want to learn, but junk like that sticks to my grey matter.
Luckily, I knew not to confess without listening first. Good news: they didn't know about my escapade (March 5th Word of the Day.) Bad news: they weren't really my parents.
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