You are feeling relaxed and refreshed, and ready for your preschool Spanish lesson.
--"Ms. Nancy, I wasted the toilet paper."
Thank you, my child for being honest. Just don't use so much next time or you will clog the potty.
In the background I hear the beginning wail of a kiddie stuck on the toilet seat with no t.p. This is not the best moment for a vocabulary correction. That moment would be after the poop Sherpa replaces the t.p. and guides the stranded mountain-climber off the porcelain peak.
"Wasted" is not quite the same as "used the last of the roll".
--"Wasted" has a big load of guilt attached. You/I have wasted talents, time, effort, resources and abilities. You/I are not "wasted" in the sense of intoxicated. Well, maybe you.
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Just don't kick the gravel on the playground...
--Getting out to the playground is like moving a caravan of cats. The children must locate their partners and hold hands. Then they must walk in a line out of the classroom, down the hall, and into the school lobby. The first pair of students, unless they have gotten a whole lotta nose goobies on their fingers during this trek, get to hold the door open. The children thank them for holding the door open. They respond with, "You're welcome," unless someone decides to go rogue espanol.
--Thank you is "gracias". You're welcome is "de nada". The preschoolers are vague on which is which and the pronunciation of both. That leads to long lines of polite kiddies saying:
Granada
Miata
Granada
Miata
Granada
Miata
In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines
Lived twelve little girls in two straight lines
In two straight lines they broke their bread
And brushed their teeth and went to bed.
They left the house at half past nine
In two straight lines in rain or shine-
The smallest one was Madeline.
--Which leads to the mystery of the tomato bobsled team. These perfectly spaced and sized cherry tomatoes were somehow grown in one long vine that folded over to make a double layer.
It's like the dwarfs are in the glass coffin instead of Snow White. She's on the outside singing "Someday my Miata will come".
© 2012 Nancy L. Ruder
4 comments:
Someday my Miata will come, too, but probably with noose goobies on the door handle.
I will put a cannister of diaper wipes on the hood of your Miata so you can wipe the handles before entering. See, we can learn new tricks from Walmart--which, by the way, is where I bought the tomato bobledders.
I wasted the wine...no wait, the wine wasted me, no wait, I used all the wine. Do I need to put a new bottle out in the bathroom? Miata oh Miata, what should I do?
When I write my opera, Miata oh Miata will become a famous aria...
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