In a conversation I overheard yesterday between two teenage girls, Girl #1 was telling Girl #2, ruefully, that she'd forgotten she had a pineapple in her backpack until it started to rot and stink.
Girl #2 stopped what she was doing and stared at her.
"How," she asked incredulously, "does somebody forget they have a pineapple?"
Don't be surprised if, in 20 years, we see Girl #2 demolishing a less-than-credible witness in a courtroom or grilling a malefactor on the evening news. She homed in on the salient issue immediately and already has an impressive way about her when it comes to asking an outraged question.
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