A Funny Story
Sunday, June 2, 2013 at 10:16PM After church today, we went out to lunch, as we often do. Jason's Deli was our restaurant of choice, and we ate outside with the pigeons.
You can imagine my delight.
Mike actually traded seats with me, because where I had originally sat was directly under the edge of the overhang which was housing a nest of said pigeons. Once I discovered that my seat was located in such a prime pooping position, Mike sweetly offered to sit there so that I could be fully under the roof. Ceiling? Protrusion? Whatever.
No one got a surprise from above, but I felt very uncomfortable every time wings were a-flapping. Who knows what's flying out of the wings?!
We finished our food and Mike went in to get some soft serve ice cream. It's free! Michaela went soon after that, and when she came out she was smiling and told us to guess whom she had seen inside. We guessed a few folks, but were wrong every time.
She gave us a clue: "It starts with an s." Then she pretended to read something. Mike and I looked at each other and said a few things that definitively did not start with an s, like book, newspaper, magazine, page, writing. We were stumped. We looked at one another again and I said,"How can we both be so dumb?" He shrugged his shoulders.
Christian went in for his ice cream, and upon returning delightedly informed us that it was so easy! Of course, now that he knew what the answer was! He gave us another clue as Michaela sat in her chair smugly turning imaginary pages. Christian said,"The first name is something you color with -ers."
Mike and I together said,"Mark?" and then it dawned on us: Mark Story, who works at the church with Mike.
You read a story. A story! How did we not get that?!
The kids thought it was hilarious that they got us with such a good riddle. Next time I'm whipping out my thesaurus.
Story. I still can't believe it...
Reader Comments (2)
Clever kids. Watch out - they'll soon be smarter than you. It's annoying.
Soon? I'm afraid we're already there... ;)