Mum (holding out a crumple of aluminium foil): "It's a tulip! It's just opening - here are the petals, and here's the stamen, and here are the leaves."
Me: "Nope. Wrong. It's a ringwraith. Look, this is its robe, and this its hood, and here are its angry little arms, and - "
Mum (startled and disturbed): "Here's its WHAT!?"
Me (nonplussed): "Its angry little arms...? With the spiky gauntlets and the stabbing?"
Mum: "Oh thank god, I thought you said angry little arse!"
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