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Thursday, June 5, 2014

Powers for Good

Angel Doll lied to me.
"My class is going to last a little longer than usual today," she told me.  "I'll call you when I'm ready to be picked up."  It made perfect sense to believe her since she's never lied before in her life and she was looking me straight in the eye like the cherub that she is.
I dropped her off in the quotidian spot at the quotidian time.  I picked her up in the quotidian spot when she called and said she was ready.  I'm pretty proud of the word "quotidian".  I found it in the thesaurus.  That's a book of synonyms, not a dinosaur.
Angel Doll looked the same when I picked her up as she had when I dropped her off.  She lugged her quotidian backpack and wore her quotidian expression.  I'm not really sure whether I'm using the word "quotidian" correctly but I like it.  So.
The Lady of the House met Angel Doll with her quotidian disdainful gaze and greeted her with the quotidian condescending flick of her tail.  The point I'm making here is that nothing seemed out of the ordinary.  It was all very, you know.  Quotidian.
So three days later Mother's Day showed up, and for the occasion Angel Doll sent me on a ninety-mile, on-foot, uphill-both-ways scavenger hunt to find the present she had built for me, which turned out to be a two potted flowering plants and a brizillian dollar gift card to the best caramel mocha hangout in the western hemisphere.  https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Grainery/270676199452
MAMA LOVES MOCHA, and flowering plants!  Brizillian is a word I made up myself but I don't recall whether it's spelled brizillian or brizillion.  I'm too tired right now to look it up in my previous posts.  There's a reason my blog is called Random Unlimited.
Angel Doll hadn't had a longer class.  She had sneaked around town after class, buying me presents.  She had smuggled her loot home in her backpack.  She had stashed the contraband in her room.  She had lied to my face about where she had been, and her halo never even tilted.  She was so good, Jeremy Renner would have believed her.
You gotta watch those Angels every second.  Can you imagine the terror she could wreak if she turned to the dark side?  Thank God I taught her to use her powers for good.

5 comments:

  1. Brazillion. Brazillian. Brizillion. Brizillian. But it's not Brazilian, because that's someone from Brazil.

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  3. Sorry, trying to find my alter ego instead of my real one...

    As I was saying...

    Devious one, she is!

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