(i) children who won't get up for school and miss buses, then turn up home so that Mum can rescue them (which eats into writing time!) -- Sir Talkalot
(ii) children who have 1 1/2 days off school and insist for 1 1/4 of those that they have no homework, then discover that in fact they have an essay due tomorrow, which they haven't started, plus a major French test on regular and irregular verb conjugations in six different tenses -- Princess Sleepyhead
(iii) children who have parent-teacher interviews and lose their schedule of interview times, so that parents don't know when said interviews are -- Sir Talkalot
(iv) children who throw paint at their siblings when their siblings are in full school uniform -- Princess Sleepyhead
(v) children who turn up after school with unannounced friends (when there is an activity that they have to go to) -- Princess Sleepyhead (who hardly ever has friends home)
That was today. I'm sure tomorrow it will be a different five.
6 comments:
thing
yeah, Bester's one of the bestest
Have you picked what Alexandre Dumas story it's based on?
Adam
oops - sorry - that comment was meant for the post after this one, about Alfred Bester...
lol. Yep, I gathered that.
Nope, no idea which story it's based on. Not sure if I will have read it. Or will I?
here you go
http://tal.forum2.org/stars
Ah, interesting. I haven't read it, but bought it a little while ago and put it on my must-read pile. There's a few of them, I have to admit.
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