Ain't Kids Funny...

I nearly forgot what I had planned for a Monday… I was going to write a load of bollocks about sod all, and then I remembered that I said I was going to use Monday’s for talking about my family.

Well last week I mentioned a small bit about my youngest son. So, I’ll have to do something about one of the others, I have five kids to choose from… okay, I’ll start with my eldest.

This is a piece of flash fiction based on a little something that my daughter said to me, something that makes me laugh every time I think about it:

Out on a walk, passing by a high spiked metal fence with a white plastic object embedded between the spikes, my husband winked at me and said to our six year old daughter, “I told you dinosaurs came out at night. Look up there - one of them tried to eat this fence and got his tooth pulled out instead.”

She jumped up and down, smiling with amazement at seeing a real life dinosaurs’ tooth.

Continuing on our walk, our daughter and I fell behind. She tugged at my arm and said, “Mammy, we can’t come back this way.”

Very concerned I asked, “Why, is something wrong?”

She replied, “No, but if we do come back this way daddy won’t be happy.”

“Why is that dear?”

“He will look at the dinosaur tooth again and he might see it’s just a plastic cup.”
“Oh! I see,” I said amused.

“I don’t want daddy sad, you know what he’s like with dinosaurs, he’s a bigger kid than me.”