It was dark when I got home tonight and young girls with flashlights approached me from the neighbors yard.Girl 1: casually "Have you seen a little girl in a pink shirt?"
Me: casually concerned "No. Is she lost?"
Girl 2: passively "She is my sister and she is missing."
Me: paniced "Oh no! Are you the only two looking for her?"
Girl 2: nonchalantly "Yeah" waving her flashlight around
Me: frantically reaching for my phone to dial 911 "When did you last see her?"
Girl 1: excitedly "We said we would only hide in the front yards of these three houses and not the back because Sally* is afraid of the dark but Molly* is good at hide & seek..." voice trails off into the darkness as I calmly close my phone and start walking toward the front door.
It reminds me of when I was a little girl, playing hide & seek at night with flashlights, making false missing persons statements. Oh wait, that wasn't me!
Haven't these girls ever heard of Sardines? You can play that inside you know!
*Names are made up.
This story is 100 percent true.
No small children were harmed in the making of this story.
Although they should have been.
This story is 100 percent true.
No small children were harmed in the making of this story.
Although they should have been.
1 comment:
Wow. I was going to write about something similar to that...sort of.
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