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Amber and the ball box
25 April 2013
Kids! Their innocence is amazing and so completely
and utterly refreshing.
Their brains are wired
differently to ours. And so often where
us adults see stumbling blocks and problems, they see adventure and
opportunity.
Their expectations of life are
huge. Anything is possible. Anything is do-able.
And perhaps one of their biggest
aspirations is to be all grown up. To be
taken seriously. To appear to be
knowledgeable and wise.
But somehow in their strive to do
all of this, they occasionally only get snippets of knowledge and titbits of
truth. In fact, sometimes they miss the
entire plot.
And no one is more adept at this
than my Berry. She sports a pair of
elephant sized ears. And quite often, in
listening to overheard conversation, she usually only manages to get the very
tail end of a story. Leading her to leap
to conclusions, and make inaccurate assumptions. She latches on to a word perhaps, and then in
her mind weaves a whole long story about it.
Funny enough always picking up on something which she thinks directly
affects her. And is to her personal gain
of course.
And so to illustrate, Grant and I
might have a conversation about work colleagues coming down for a trip and
Grant’s need to book them into accommodation for the duration of their
stay. And so we might be talking about
it. A whole long discussion in fact, and
somewhere in that discussion the phrase “maybe just book them into a hotel”
might come up. Which in turn would lead
to Amber coming screaming down the passage, “We’re going to stay in a
Hotel!!! That is awesome! Which Hotel?
How long are we going for? Do we
have to fly there? Do they have room
service? Is it like the Tipton Hotel
from the Suite Life of Zack and Cody?
Who will look after the dogs? Can
we order what we want? Have they got a
swimming pool? Do they have one of those
funny trolleys that they use to bring your bags up to your room? Do we get those tiny little shampoo and body
wash bottles? “
Sigh!!! She does this with boring regularity. This very same sense of excitement is also
spurred on by uncensored use of the following words: Chocolate, Disney World, Blackberry,
Take-Aways, Sweets, Clothes, Shoes, Make-up, Bigger bedroom, Swimming Pool,
Puppy, Sunglasses, Overseas, Holiday, I-pad, Laptop, Facial, TV, Movies,
etc. Pretty much most words in her
opinion, can lead straight back to her and her needs. Poor deprived child.
And perhaps there is no more
accurate way of illustrating this, her need for knowledge and her sincere
belief that she knows all, than the time we went to fetch Luke from a cricket
match at school one afternoon. Lying
there on the sports filed, discarded, was a cricket ball box. You know a ball box. That contraption used by the male of the
species to protect their precious testes when they are playing ball
sports.
Amber was delighted with her
find, screeching delight. At first, I
was unsure about what all the hoopla was about, as I had not seen the ball box
at all. And then, sort of in slow motion,
I saw Luke running towards her, bellowing, “No-o-o-o-o”. You know how they do those effects in movies,
when they show stuff in slow motion.
Everything is muffled and hollow and moving at snail paced slow speed.
Unbeknownst to me, Amber had
picked the random ball box up, and clapped it over her nose and mouth, to show
Luke the “cool” mask she had found.
Yip, she does often only get the back
end of a story. Though, in this case,
she sadly got the front end …..
Well, maybe not
Poor Amber Berry!! Still very funny!! As always very entertaining!! Thank you!!
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