Iris and Lucy:
"We're going to the mall, so put your shoes on!" demanded Iris bossily.
"I hate the mall," said three year-old Lucy.
"That is the STUPIDEST THING I have EVER heard! How can anyone hate a mall?" (Iris paused at this point to call her father on his celphone to inform him that Lucy hates the mall).
Returning to the fray, Iris explained, "A mall is a whole bunch of stores. It's like stores all rolled together into one store. Indoors. How can anyone possibly hate a store of stores? It's crazy!"
Although Lucy complained bitterly all the way to the mall, when she arrived there, she said, "I love it here! I want to stay here until I want to leave!" At various times, when finished with our errands, Iris begged to go home, Lucy would demand, "I want to stay until I want to leave!"
"Ruins"-induced sanity watch update: basically back to normal (or what passes for normal with me), although I did flinch as I walked past an exuberant, red-flowered vine today while going to my friend Lisa's house.
3 comments:
I love "I want to stay here until I want to leave!"
"I love it here. I want to stay here until I want to leave!"
That's awesome. I think I'll call my boss right now and express that sentiment to her.
I had just finished reading the latest Penny Arcade comic and then read this post. Iris and Lucy's conversation sounds like something that those guys would draw. Thanks for sharing such a sweet story.
PS: For the record, I don't understand today's Penny Arcade, but I do understand Lucy and Iris.
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