I just had a very funny flash back…it was quite a long time ago…I must have been five or six…old enough to be wise, really.
An aunt had taken me out to see her boyfriend (now her husband and father of her 5 children)…of course, that was without my parent’s knowledge…if my mum had known, hmmm!
Anyway, we were on our way out of his photo studio when I decided to walk inside the gutter (silly, I know)…it was a dry, shallow gutter, so I was sure it was safe…at least so I thought.
It must have been the bottle of fanta I took (nothing else explains it) for I suddenly found myself in a pool of greenish mess…oh, the bacteria, fungae, amoeba, yuck!
My cry must have distracted my aunt from her lovey dovey and she screamed on seeing me in my green suit…lol…you need to have been there to see the way she yanked me out of the gutter…her yellow skin turning red with embarrassment as a small crowd gathered.
The life saver was a small public tap located very close by, where my aunt washed me up, and rushed me home…the only reason she didn’t beat me up, I’m sure, was because I would have told my parents and the whole story would have unfolded, blowing her cover…ha, ha, ha.
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LOL!..I Recall vividly,my first experince in a gutter…It wasn’t fun in the least bit..My then primary school had this big field,and i loved running around,playing ‘catcher’..One day,unknown to me…i was going to meet my doom..As a host of other children rushed out of their classes when the bell was rung,I ran in the opposite direction..Thinking if i did that i would have the field to myself for a few minuites…Next thing i knew…GBAM!..Straight into the dry gutter…That was the only place i had to myself for sometime..My knee was badly grazed..The scars on my knee can attest to that.
I had to shrink into the back seat of the car to escape my mother’s eyes that day!
BTW:Help came when i wasn’t seen among the crowd of other children…
LOL!..Thanks for sharing..I really enjoyed reading this…I’m certain your Aunt’s Heart must have finished cutting!
Rose; omg, u ran in the opposite direction? LOL! sorry oh, hope d pain wasn’t too much…
lol @ shrinking into the back seat of the car to escape ur mum’s eyes…
thanks 4 sharing ur own gutter episode with us…lol…