Revenge


Since English people love to crowd together for some mysterious and infuriating reason, I get to overhear about a zillion things everyday as people get all up in my space.  Sometimes what I overhear is so cute though that I'm actually glad I got crowded.  

I was sitting next to a family in the park the other day waiting for Marc to finish his half marathon (!), which he did, but I didn't see him go by even though I was watching like a hawk and we spent two hours worrying about each other because he couldn't find me, and I thought he was having a heart attack along the racetrack somewhere.  But anyway that's not the topic of this post.  I was sitting next to a little family while they waited for their dad to run in.  A 12-ish year old boy was picking on his 7-ish year old brother and their mom finally said, "now stop it you two!"  

And the 7 year old cried in desperation (English accent), "but all I want is my spot of revenge!  Just a spot of revenge and I never get it!" And he collapsed on the ground under the crippling weight of the unfairness of life.  And I got out my notebook and wrote down exactly what he said before I forgot.   

5 comments:

Unknown said...

Best story I have yet read! I love it!

Melissa

T.A.T.I Crew said...

Oh.... sooo.....funny.

I am still laughing.

Don't we all deserve our spot of revenge?

Olivia Meikle said...

Way to go Marc! Excellent.

And this story has now entered Meikle folklore, and will be passed down through the generations. Thank you.

Olivia Meikle said...

Jennifer wants to know if he had a spot of tea after his spot of revenge?

Katie said...

you know...he probably did.