Quick question: when multiple toddlers run up to you at daycare squealing, "Daddy!" ... is this considered evidence in a court of law? Briefly state your legal credentials in your answer, please.
People are always telling me that my work is too dark. So I've put up this sunnier story, but even it has a shadow, as its original publisher – a fine Atlantic Canadian literary magazine called the Gaspereau Review – is no longer in business. ---------------- It was a simple enough thing and that thing was simply this: Edmund Kelley was a gentleman. Of course his mom called him her 'little gentleman', as in 'Oh Edmund, you are my perfect little gentleman,' which did seem to hold to a certain logic that these type of things often follow, considering her affection for him and the fact that he was, after all, only ten years old. Still, Edmund himself was not particularly fond of the diminutive aspect of that title. Gentleman was enough; gentleman summed up the whole thing rather nicely, thank you. He was definitely a more refined version of your average child. He lived in a state of perpetual Sunday m
oh you should just be flattered!
ReplyDeleteoh, my credentials? (i quickly flashed a pack of chesterfields)
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ReplyDeleteSusan, I might need you as a character witness.
ReplyDeleteI get the majority of my legal advice from Judge Judy.. Do you have her in Canada?
ReplyDeleteAs long as there is no DNA evidence. :)
Ran a daycare for five years... the little buggers were just shaking your cage. They were just playing with you before they eats you. :)))
ReplyDeleteThat's when you start sweating and say in a loud-enough-to-hear voice you haven't been sewing your seed around, honest injun!
ReplyDeleteCould be evidence. Just pat them all on the head, pick yours up, and just keep walking.
ReplyDeleteone time I was at a parenting class (as a worker, not an attendee- but man am I glad going to parenting classes are part of my job) and a man came in to pick up his wife and child.
ReplyDeleteUnbeknown to him, two of his girlfriends were there with two of his other children. All the children were 3 or 4 years old.
The wife had no idea about the girlfriends, the girlfriends had no idea about the wife or each other.
And as for the ladies knowing about the kids, who all ran up to him screaming "Daddy!!!!"? WOW.
Let's just say it was like a moment out of a movie.