Actually, it does seem like an eternity ago to me. But there have been alot of changes in my life since then. You know of my recurring fantasy, Katy, you must be suffering from brain freeze. For those not in the know, I have, for five years nows, been occasionally afflicted with an overpowering urge to get in a car and ling handfuls of jelly at children playing in the street. The reasons are simple:
1. It's jelly. It is very unlikey anyone would get hurt.
2. It's jelly. Even if caught, I would probably get court-mandated counseling rather than jail time.
3. The children would be covered in jelly, sticky, and in stained clothes. They would have no recourse but to run to their mothers, who would e obviously upset that their little angels had so wickedly and purposely destroyed their outfits, and tell them that it wasn't their fault, that some random person had flung jelly at them from a passing car.
4. The mothers would never, ever believe it.
The children would learn that the world is an unfair, haphazard and cruel place with things going on it it that they can only dream of. It's what I've always liked about it. The rest of their lives they would wonder about it. The very youngs ones would forget, and it would become a story told at Xmas to future spouses about 'the most bizarre little lie Timmy came up with one year.'
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