When I was little, my mum told me that if you swallowed a seed from a piece of fruit, a tree would grow out of your bottom. I remember being horrified, & then seeing some sort of feathered show girl extravaganza on the TV (it was probably
Don Lane) remarking sagely 'Oh, they must have eaten cherry pips or something', much to my parents amusement.
Mr BC has told all of our children that 'OMG
look my bum is broken! It's got a big crack in it, it must be broken!' The boys thought this was hysterical, but Teenage Daughter, (who was 2 at the time) was a bit distressed that her bum had a crack so it must have been broken too.
Mr BC also has some confused memories of his mother telling him that the
Yarra River in Melbourne has contradictory currents, i.e. it flows in one direction at the bottom & flows the opposite way at the surface, which he stood up in class & proudly recited only to be cut down cruelly by his teacher, so you would think he would know better...
I have told all of my children that when the ice cream truck plays music, it means they have run out of ice cream - it's for safety reasons, so that children don't run onto the road & get run over. Because you know, the truck won't stop because they don't have any ice cream. The boys totally believe this, still, but Teenage daughter never bought it.
Tonight Monkey Boy coughed on a mandarine seed, so I told him that a mandarine tree would now grow out of his back side. He just dug his hand deep into the back of his PJ's, laughed at me & said
'well I can't feel it!'
Bet his bum was broken.
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