Try Not To Read Too Much Into It
(A six-or-seven-year-old boy comes into the children’s bookstore, his mother trailing behind him.)
Mother: “Go on, then! Ask! She won’t know what you’re talking about and then you can stop wasting my time!”
Boy: “Hello!”
Me: “Hello.”
Boy: “I want a book.”
Me: “Well, you’re in the right place.”
Boy: “It’s about a boy. Who lives with a caveman. He’s got a funny name beginning with ‘S’.”
Mother: “There. Now you know there’s no such book.”
Me: “That wouldn’t be ‘Stig of the Dump,’ would it?”
Boy: *jumping up and down* “Yes, yes, yes! I told you, Mummy!”
Mother: “Don’t contradict me in front of my son!” *starts walking her son out of the shop and still talking to me* “You read too many books!”
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